The Tipperary Antiquarian

"Here where I aim laid, I am not Nor am I in both places, but I am in each It is the Lord who judges me. Let him who stands take care lest he fall" The table top tomb of Miler McGrath lies within the walls of Cashel Cathedral at the Rock of Cashel. For more on this controversial figure who was both a Catholic and Protestant Bishop and died at the age of 100 with nine children, see Seamus Kings brilliant lecture below. https://www.seamusjking.com/sjk-articles/2017/3/7/miler-mcgrath-1522-1622-talk-given-to-cashel-historical-society-circa-1986

Copyright - University of Wisconsion / Milwaukee  The above is an extract from a map located here . I have written about a similar map that Rev. John Gleeson used in both The History of Ely O'Carroll Territory and also Cashel of the Kings. It looks to me as if this map was the basis of both. Those maps located "Danes" in what is now the half-barony of Arra or probably better known as the Burgess / Portroe / Ballina area in County Tipperary. I have written about this map here & about possible Viking settlements on Lough Derg here . Since Rev. Gleeson's extracts only covered the Tipperary area and seemed to only include prominent surname / clans in that area, it could have been possible that the "Danes" referred to the surname Dane or Dean even if that was not a well known name in that area. The 1901 and 1911 census actually record few of either name in the entire country at that time. However this new map covers the whole of Ireland and i...

I think most of us have heard the stories that originate in the Lebor Gabala Erenn linking Scota or Scotia with Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scota It is a great story but the problem is when it used as fact. I few years back I first heard of the claim relating to the Tara Prince and the faience beads that are claimed to originate in Egypt. "The Tara Prince" aka Tara Boy An excavation of the Mound of the Hostages in 1955 by Sean O'Riordain uncovered a number of items within the mound (which turned out to be a passage tomb). One was a set of faience beads now on display in the National Museum of Ireland. They were associated with a skeleton that in pseudoarchaeology has been dubbed "The Tara Prince". Copyright National Museum of Ireland When I read about the claim linking him back to Egypt curiosity got to the better of me and I had to see if there was any basis in it. You can see where the claim arose in O'Riordain's paper ...