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Series: Maynooth Studies in Local History

Dún na nGall, ‘Fort of the Foreigners’?

Dún na nGall, ‘Fort of the Foreigners’?

The Vikings and their legacy in Donegal

Dún na nGall, the Irish name for ‘Donegal’, translates as ‘Fort of the Foreigners’, but who were the foreigners in question? This book considers that they were Vikings and reviews the archaeological and documentary evidence...Dún na nGall, the Irish name for ‘Donegal’, translates as ‘Fort of the Foreigners’, but who were the foreigners in...
Author/Editor: Megan McAuley
From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon

From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon

The St George estate, 1613-1864

Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the story of the St George family and their Carrick-on-Shannon estate. It explores how military prowess...Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the...
Author/Editor: Mairead Lynch
Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later voluntary hospital and her school in Rathcoole, which subsequently merged with the King’s...This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to...
Author/Editor: Peter A. Daly
The perjury trial of Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare

The perjury trial of Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare

Elite Catholic responses to the emerging Protestant ascendancy

On 31 May 1701, the former Jacobite functionary, and notorious cheat, Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare, was convicted of perjury for swearing a false affidavit in respect of a ‘sham robbery’ of gold and...On 31 May 1701, the former Jacobite functionary, and notorious cheat, Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare, was convicted of...
Author/Editor: Brendan Twomey
Farming and society since 1700 in the barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare

Farming and society since 1700 in the barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare

This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant challenges of civil strife, famine and the transition from tenancy to ownership, succeeding generations of...This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant...
Author/Editor: Lesley Whiteside
The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8

The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8

In November 1934, 7,368 Protestants in east Donegal signed a Unionist petition to the British and Northern Irish governments requesting to transfer their region to Northern Ireland. This was a reaction to policies made in...In November 1934, 7,368 Protestants in east Donegal signed a Unionist petition to the British and Northern Irish governments requesting...
Author/Editor: Samuel Gary Beckton
Portmagee, Co. Kerry

Portmagee, Co. Kerry

The origins of an Atlantic smuggling village

This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our traditional master narratives of Irish history do not stand up to scrutiny when investigated at...This volume — focusing on the immediate region surrounding the Atlantic village of Portmagee — shows how many of our...
Author/Editor: Denis Casey
Marsden Haddock and the Androides

Marsden Haddock and the Androides

Entertainment, late Georgian Cork and the wider world

By the late eighteenth century, many people had designated leisure time. The appetite for novelty in popular entertainment became insatiable. The hero of this story is Marsden Haddock, who devised an exhibition of mechanical ingenuity,...By the late eighteenth century, many people had designated leisure time. The appetite for novelty in popular entertainment became insatiable....
Author/Editor: Neil Cronin
The Mansfields of Co. Kildare

The Mansfields of Co. Kildare

A Franco-Irish Catholic elite family and their networks, 1870-1915

While dominated by Protestants, the nineteenth-century landed gentry of Ireland also included a minority of Catholics. Social and marriage networks of this latter group have received little scholarly attention, and this volume helps to fill...While dominated by Protestants, the nineteenth-century landed gentry of Ireland also included a minority of Catholics. Social and marriage networks...
Author/Editor: Fergus Murphy
Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

The findings of the Poor Commission of 1833

The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815–45. As economic conditions deteriorated between those years, population increased rapidly. From the 1820s onwards,...The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period...
Author/Editor: Seán Byrne
Day Place, Co. Kerry

Day Place, Co. Kerry

“The most respectable locality in Tralee”

This book studies the occupants of Day Place, a terrace of ten Georgian townhouses in Tralee, Co. Kerry, over a 100-year period. The street was the most fashionable and sought-after address in the town and...This book studies the occupants of Day Place, a terrace of ten Georgian townhouses in Tralee, Co. Kerry, over a...
Author/Editor: Laurence Jones
Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the social networking of power

Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the social networking of power

This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it acts as a prism through which to view...This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite....
Author/Editor: Suzanne M. Pegley