County Wicklow
Cill Mhantáin
- IrishCill Mhantáin
- ProvinceLeinster
- County townWicklow
- Local governmentWicklow County Council
- Area2,025 km²
- Population155,851 (2022)
- Highest pointLugnaquilla, 924.7 m
Glenmalure
In the summer of 1580 Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne, lord of Crioch Raghnuill, joined Viscount Baltinglass in a war for the Catholic faith, and unfurled the papal colours.
On the twenty fifth of August he defeated the new lord deputy, Lord Grey de Wilton, at Glenmalure, the valley where the O'Byrnes had their house at Ballinacor.
He held out in the mountains, on and off, for seventeen years more. On the eighth of May 1597 a relative gave away where he was. He was run down in a cave near Manning's bog and beheaded.
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Glendalough
In a glacial valley in the sixth century Saint Kevin founded a monastery. It became one of the most famous religious centres in Europe.
What is left is spread along the glen: a round tower, a number of stone churches, and some decorated crosses.
In the cliff above the Upper Lake is a small cave called St Kevin's Bed. Tradition says he lived and prayed there. It may be a prehistoric burial place far older than he is.
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Charles Stewart Parnell
Born at Avondale House on the twenty seventh of June 1846, into a Protestant gentry family.
He was president of the Land League from 1879 and chairman of the Irish party from 1880. He told tenants to keep a firm grip on their homesteads and lands.
In 1890 Captain William O'Shea sued his wife Katharine for divorce and named Parnell. The party split. Parnell fought on, and lost, and wore himself out.
He died at Brighton on the sixth of October 1891, a month he had always dreaded. He is buried in Glasnevin.
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