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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Na Mine

Item

Title

Na Mine

Description

A large series of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Na Mine, [Minna]. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, the lessor was Patrick Blake. Included in the descriptions are Aerfort Chonamara, a note on Thomas Lynch who was the proprietor in 1641, and a detailed note on the castle, where Walter Fada Bourke was murdered on the will of his step-mother, an O'Flaherty, to secure the inheritance of Risdeard an Iarain (Iron Dick) in the 16th century. And a note on Cora an Chasleáin, and a children's burial ground.
Na Mine.

Format

6pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2823
ead-unitid: p120_1_10_14

Relation

Tim Robinson
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Subject

describing--Griffiths--Valuation--descriptions--Chonamara--proprietor--stepmother--OFlaherty--inheritance--Chaslein--childrens--Kilcummin Civil Parish Pariste an Chnoic and Pariste an Spidal Roman Catholic Parishes