Tullow

Fully Tulach Ó bhFéidhlim, the hillock of the Uí Fhéidhlim. Father John Murphy of Boolavogue, one of the leaders of the 1798 rising in Wexford, was taken and executed here, and the town has a statue of him in the square.

St Fortchern, a pupil of Patrick and Lommán, founded a monastery and school at Tullow in the 5th century; the holy well on Barrack Street is reputed to mark its site, and a pattern was held there every 8 September until about 1800. Hugh de Lacy built a castle at the crossing of the Slaney around 1181; Cromwell took it in 1650, and nothing of it survives. Tullow also had an Augustinian friary, granted to the Earl of Ormond at the dissolution. Fr John Murphy, a leader of the 1798 rising, was captured near Tullow and executed in the Market Square on 2 July; his statue stands there. Bishop Daniel Delany founded the Brigidine Sisters here in 1807.

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

• Rathgall Hillfort · royal site · 5 km
• Brownshill dolmen · dolmen · 10 km
• Nurney Cross · high cross · 13 km
• Castledermot · round tower · 14 km
• Castlemore Moat · castle · 3 km
• Ballyloughan Castle · castle · 5 km
• Clonmore Castle · castle · 11 km
• Huntington Castle, Clonegal · castle · 14 km
• Carlow Castle · castle · 14 km

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

• Browneshill dolmen · A capstone of some 100 tonnes, the heaviest in Europe, raised by farmers without wheels or metal. Nobody is sure how.

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