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The History and Topography of the County of Clare by James Frost |
Part II.
History of Thomond The Journal of Thomas Dineley, 1681 |
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Loopshead, Kilrush
Loopshead [45]
is a Promontory belonging
to ye Honble the Lord Viscount Clare not farr off the mouth of the Shannon,
[here is] a stone whereon if any one turnes round upon the heele [46],
and thinks on any other of either sex for an husband or wife, are sayd
never to faile of their thought; on this several have wrote and engraven
their names, but none ever ventur’d to make the turne, the stone
being so dangerous an eminence over the water that ’tis thought
impossible.
Kilrush [47] is a Town in ye county of Clare, belonging to the right Honble. Henry Earle of Thomond, at this time, 1680, in the tenure of Major Granniere; opposite, with a league & half of river between, to the Castle of Carigofoile in the county of Kerry, hither 28. July 1601, from Limerick marched the president of Mounster Carew agst. the Rebells of Kerry with 1050 Foot of Qu. Eliz. souldiers & 75 horse, he being forc’d to take his way through ye county of Clare, the mountain of Sleuglogher, by reason of the rain, being unpassable for carriages; the honour of this despatch is worthily attributed to the then Earle of Thomond, who provided Boats. |