A secret room in Ross Castle?

An O’Connor friend of mine had read somewhere that Ross Castle had a secret room found in the 1930s.  It had a mural of a figure kneeling with hands joined.  Is this true?  If so, was it the O’D or a priest? I asked Ross Castle branch of the Office of Public Works and a […]

A fifteenth century Ó Donnchadha bishop at Kilmacduagh in County Galway

In 2003 and 2004 I ran a series of articles on the abbeys, monasteries and clerics of the name before the dissolution of the Catholic church establishments in the 16th century A beautiful, large, ruined site is that of Kilmacduagh in the south of County Galway close to the Clare boundary. The Bishop’s Palace (left) […]