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Glenasmole Roads C Patrick Healy SOUTH DUBLIN LIBRARIES Glenasmole Roads GLENASMOLE ROADS Patrick Healy Átha Cliath Theas Comhairle Contae 5.00 � Price Publications Grant Scheme. the Heritage Council under the 2006 This publication has received support from South Dublin County Council GLENASMOLE ROADS Fort Bridge, over the Dodder, was built soon after 1821 and on Duncan’s map published in that year there was a ford shown at this point with a footbridge beside it. Below the bridge is a very deep hole in the river bed known as the sheep hole, into which the water is precipitated over a high weir. A quarter of a mile below the bridge there was formerly a petrifying spring, that is, the water contained a quantity of carbonate of lime, which, trickling through Glenasmole Roads the moss and grass transformed them into hard stone. This spring can no longer be located and may have been diverted when the 9 by new road was made. Handcock, in his history of Tallaght, 1876, states that he took blocks of this stone for rockeries. Some years ago, on a visit to Sally Park, Handcock’s old home, blocks of this Patrick Healy stone could still be seen lying about the garden. including notes on Killakee, Upper Dodder River, Firhouse Road from Old Bawn to Cherryfield and an appendix of placenames and field names collected by Tomás Maher and pupils of Glenasmole National School Fort Bridge, built after 1821 replaced a ford and a footbridge. South Dublin Libraries 2006 8 GLENASMOLE ROADS GLENASMOLE ROADS Four hundred yards to the east of Bohernabreena House there is a Published by — SOUTH DUBLIN LIBRARIES fine ring fort in a field of furze with a spring of water beside it. It is 30 yards in diameter and surrounded by a bank. The area inside Design and layout by — JOHN MCALEER is levelled and bears evidence of having been tilled at some distant period. Printed in Ireland by — GRAPHPRINT LTD. The straight portion of road leading to Fort Bridge over the Local Studies Section South Dublin Libraries’ Headquarters Dodder was built about 1922 to avoid the steep rise past County Library Unit 1 Bohernabreena Chapel. This chapel, which is dedicated to St. Town Centre Square Industrial Complex Anne, was built in 1868. When it was exactly a century old it Tallaght Tallaght became the Parish church for the newly created parish of Dublin 24 Dublin 24 Bohernabreena. Phone 353 (0)1 462 0073 Phone 353 (0)1 459 7834 Fax 353 (0)1 414 9207 Fax 353 (0)1 459 7872 e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.southdublin.ie see also www.southdublincountyimages.ie www.southdublincountyhistory.ie www.southdublincountylocalstudies.ie COPYRIGHT 2006 LOCAL STUDIES SECTION SOUTH DUBLIN LIBRARIES The Heritage Council South Dublin County Council An Chomhairle Oidhreachta Comhairle Contae Átha Cliath Theas This publication has received support from the Heritage Council under Duncan’s Map of 1821 showing a footbridge and ford where Fort Bridge is now the 2006 Publications Grant Scheme. located ISBN 0954766091 7 GLENASMOLE ROADS GLENASMOLE ROADS According to Malachy Horan, Kinlan was land agent to Ponsonby Shaw, and a hard man on the tenants, so it would appear in the circumstances that his murder was probably done from both political and agrarian motives. In the year 1933 a skeleton was Introduction found in a sandpit near Tallaght which was believed to be the remains of the murdered man.8 by Mayor Eamonn Maloney Bohernabreena Further along towards Glenasmole the road passes through OUTH Dublin County is fortunate to Bohernabreena. This townland name, translated as “The Road of Shave Glenasmole, an area of outstanding the Hostel” had led such scholars as O’Curry and MacNeill to natural beauty with its varied and rich believe that this was the location of Dá Dearga’s hostel which is so heritage within its boundaries. We are most dramatically described in the old saga The Destruction of Dá fortunate also, that the Glenasmole written Dearga’s Hostel. According to Henry Morris, however, this about by Paddy Healy in 1960 is still largely placename simply described the road which led to the hostel and unspoiled and intact. the hostel itself was located at the head of the glen, near the source For those of us who know Glenasmole, this of the Dodder. He makes a very strong case as far as topography book provides an opportunity to renew our and place-names are concerned but fails to justify the building of acquaintance with the area. For those not a hostel in such a remote area. aware of the heritage of Glenasmole the book has the potential to surprise readers as they become aware of their rich birthright revealed along Glenasmole Roads. Awareness of this rich legacy is a first step to ensuring that the area remains unspoiled for future generations. We are particularly fortunate to have gifted to us the writings and photographs of the late Patrick Healy who carefully collected and described the history and topography of the area and presented it in a scholarly yet clear fashion so that everyone can understand and enjoy the immense value of the area. Ar Dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. A ring fort situated in a field 400 yards east of Bohernabreena House. Eamonn Maloney Mayor of South Dublin County August 2006 6 i GLENASMOLE ROADS GLENASMOLE ROADS After their conviction for the murder of Kinlan, the Kearneys were Editor’s Note escorted from Kilmainham by a troop of Dragoons to this field where three gallows had been erected. Thousands of the country The material in this book is taken from a manuscript which was written, people had assembled to witness the execution and their rewritten and updated in the period 1950 - 1985. Much of the material sympathy would appear to have been all on the side of the appeared in a Patrick Healy article The Valley of Glenasmole read to the Old convicted men. When the executions were over the bodies were Dublin Society on 15th March 1954 and subsequently published in the taken back and buried in Kilmainham Jail.6 Dublin Historical Record in 1961. Most of the photographs used in the book are from the author’s slide collection. Minimal editing has been carried out to reflect more recent developments and changes. Imperial measurements have been used throughout the publication. 1 inch = 2.54 centimeters (0.0254 meters) 1 foot = 30.48 centimeters (0.3048 meters) 1 yard = 91.44 centimeters (0.9144 meters) There are 12 inches in 1 foot, 3 feet in 1 yard and 1,760 yards in a mile. Kearney’s House at Piperstown in 1976. The Kearney family took an active part in the revolutionary movements of that period. William Kearney, one of the sons, who Crest of South Dublin County kept a public house in Bohernabreena, had been out fighting in 1798. After the failure of the 1803 Rising, Robert Emmet and some of his comrades took refuge in Kearney’s house. They were hiding in the attic when the house was surrounded by soldiers and yeomanry under Mr. Latouche and Mr. Shaw. These two gentlemen entered the house and Mr. Shaw was about to climb the The Crest or Coat of Arms of South Dublin County reflects the ancient stairs when Mrs. Kearney dissuaded him, by assuring him that it history of the area, its geographical features and the work of the County was unsafe. Council. The motto "Ag seo ár gCúram –This we hold in Trust" is an This was literally true, as one of the men was lying on the floor of admonition to value, to preserve and to develop the economic, social, the attic with his finger on the trigger of his blunderbuss waiting environmental, cultural and heritage assets of the area both for our own for a head to appear. The military then left the house without time and for future generations. further trouble.7 ii 5 GLENASMOLE ROADS GLENASMOLE ROADS The continuation of this road, still in use, passes through Kiltipper, Ballymana and Killinarden. Documents of the thirteenth and Contents fourteenth centuries mention a place named Bohercolyn in the Old Introduction by Mayor Eamonn Maloney . i Bawn district which has been identified as comprising Ballymana, Editor’s Note . ii Killinarden and parts of the adjoining townlands and would Crest of South Dublin County . ii appear to indicate that the old road passing through this area was Contents . iii part of the ancient Slighe Cualann, one of the main roads from Acknowledgements . iv Tara.3 Paddy Healy – An Appreciation . v About the year 1800, a man named Murphy was swept away with Glenasmole Roads his horse and cart when trying to cross the ford in the dark during The Valley of Glenasmole . 1 Mount Pelier . 44 a flood and shortly after this the bridge was built at Old Bawn and Bohercolyn . 2 Standing Stone . 48 4 linked up with the road to Tallaght. The ford however appears to Execution of the Kearneys . 4 Piperstown Glen . 48 have continued in use for many years as the connecting road from Bohernabreena . 6 The Military Road . 49 the new bridge to Glenville was not made until the middle of the Friarstown Glen . 9 Featherbed Bog . 52 nineteenth century.5 The bridge, which was a three arched Bohernabreena Water Works . 10 Dá Dearga’s Hostel . 53 structure, suffered as a result of frequent floods which Castlekelly . 13 Summits in the Area . 55 undermined the foundations and had to be replaced about 1840 by Cobbes’s Lodge . 16 Seefingan Mountain . 56 a bridge of one span only.
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