Kilmallock

A medieval walled market town in south Limerick, once one of the main urban places in Ireland, with the ruins of its Dominican priory, King's Castle and stretches of the old walls still standing. The 18th-century poet Andrias Mac Craith, An Mangaire Súgach, author of 'Slán le Máigh', is buried here, and the house where he died still stands near the River Loobagh. In July 1922 the town saw bitter Civil War fighting.

St Mocheallóg built a church here in the early 7th century, and the town grew into one of the leading urban centres of late medieval Ireland; the Collegiate Church of St Peter and St Paul was built by 1241. Its strategic position made it a frequent target. In 1571 James FitzMaurice FitzGerald's forces sacked and burned it during the First Desmond Rebellion. On 13 August 1579 Bishop Patrick O'Hely and Friar Conn O'Rourke were hanged outside one of the town gates on the orders of Sir William Drury and left on the gallows for fourteen days; both were beatified in 1992. In 1648 Lord Inchiquin's Parliamentary army attacked and destroyed the Dominican priory, whose ruins are now the town's best-known landmark.

In July 1922, during the Civil War, anti-Treaty forces under Liam Deasy held the town until Irish Army troops under Eoin O'Duffy took it, one of the events that ended the short-lived Munster Republic. In July 1935, during a brief sectarian campaign, arsonists burned the Church of Ireland church to the ground.

Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Kilmallock ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Kilmallock · round tower · under 1 km
• Ardpatrick · round tower · 7 km
• Grange stone circle · stone circle · 13 km
• King John's Castle (Kilmallock) · castle · under 1 km
• Castle Harrison · castle · 10 km
• Castle Oliver · castle · 10 km

Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.

• Grange stone circle, Lough Gur · Ireland's largest stone circle, 113 stones in a great embanked ring, beside a lake that has yielded more prehistoric finds than almost anywhere in Ireland.
• Lough Gur — Áine's lake · The goddess Áine of Knockainey haunts its shores, and Gearóid Iarla, the earl said to be her son, sleeps in a cave here and rides out around the lake on a silver-shod white horse.

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