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Termon McGrath Castle and Settlement Archaeological Survey

Located on the NW side of a tower house (DG105-014001-) and associated with a settlement cluster (DG105-014002-). The lands of Termon McGrath were granted to James, son of Archbishop Myler McGrath in 1610 (Hill 1877, 183-4). In 1611 Carew records…

Tags: civil war, Magrath family, McGrath Castle, ownership, politics, ruins, seventeenth century, Termon Magrath, vicinity

From Magrath to Leslie

"The Monastery of Lough Derg, like most other Irish monasteries, was endowed with extensive lands at an early date by neighbouring chieftains..."

Tags: Clogher, confiscation, fifteenth century, Leslie family, Magrath family, Margaret Gibbons, monastery, ownership, patronage, seventeenth century, Termon Magrath

"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock"

"Throughout all the perversions and confiscations [of the Reformation], however, the Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock which then was Station Island..."

Tags: Catholic Church, Clogher, Diocese of Clogher, law, Leslie family, Margaret Gibbons, nineteenth century, ownership, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Reformation, Sir John Leslie, Station Island, suppression