The 1798 Rebellion was a significant uprising in Ireland and a casual google search does not find much evidence for activity in Laois/Queen’s County. However, the monument on Wolfe Tone St.
Visited by Fidelma Mullane the 2-storey dwelling (with turret) on the right at the top of the hill served as a Secondary School between 1945 and 1954 when the school was moved to the local Protestant Church – Christ Trinity. A man known as “Fire and Lights’ once lived in the house that is now o
The site of the principal seat of the McAuliffe Clan, it stood on an elevation over the Dalua River valley. The ancestral lands of the McAuliffe clan were located in the NW corner of county Cork.
According to a local legend Meidhleann was the daughter of a McAuliffe chieftain who was spirited away to the cave on her wedding night by a fairy. She was later rescued by her husband. The cave is a shallow depression in an outcrop of rock on a steep slope over the Dalua river. She is also r
On the 1st Nov. 1709 Don Demetrio (Dermot) McAuliffe was commissioned by King Philip V of Spain to found a new regimemt in Zaragoza. It becamer known as the " McAuliffe Regiment" and was one of the first permanent Irish regiments in the Spanish Army.
