Where is the old RIC barracks in Mountpelier ? Is it long gone or in use do you know?
Leave it with me.
I don’t ever recall seeing or hearing about it but I will ask the Grandmother
[QUOTE=“The Big Cheese, post: 1097212, member: 1137”]Leave it with me.
I don’t ever recall seeing or hearing about it but I will ask the Grandmother[/QUOTE]
The thing could have been gone by the famine, may have gone on a bit more, not sure. It was there in the 1830s. Sound.
There are the remnants of famine villages scattered around the area. Think there are some in Doonass, Kildoorus/Ard na Taggle and Montpellier.
[QUOTE=“The Big Cheese, post: 1097212, member: 1137”]Leave it with me.
I don’t ever recall seeing or hearing about it but I will ask the Grandmother[/QUOTE]
Any idea where it got the name montpelier chewy? An unusual one.
:rolleyes:
What’s wrong with you now?
His constipated.
I’m fine now, thanks.
I’d be only guessing but i’d say it had something to do with the sulphur spring out that way- Place in Cheltenham with the same type of spring was called Mountpelier also- During the 18th/19th century it was a big thing for the landed to go to the continent to health spas and would you beleive it, it all started in Spa, Belgium. Places like Cheltenham and Limerick were obviously jumping on the bandwagon and had notions about themselves…
I expect chewy to totally dimiss this theory and inform us it was named after a French hore who worked topless in a local ale house.
I honestly don’t know the origin of the name. I do know that O’Brien’s Bridge is named after Turlough O’Brien who was the high king of Munster who built/commissioned the bridge
I’ll go with my version above so.
It was one of the most well off regions in Ireland for it’s size - (Doonass-Castleconnell) The big houses and peerage percentage per population was massive. They no doubt wanted their little slice of paradise to be held in high regard.
[QUOTE=“ChocolateMice, post: 1097264, member: 168”]I’ll go with my version above so.
It was one of the most well off regions in Ireland for it’s size - (Doonass-Castleconnell) The big houses and peerage percentage per population was massive. They no doubt wanted their little slice of paradise to be held in high regard.[/QUOTE]
Interesting theory anyway mate. There’s a place called the spa just out the road so you could be onto something
@ChocolateMice start up a dedicated thread there for your queries on various Limerick towns and their history.
[QUOTE=“ChocolateMice, post: 1097258, member: 168”]I’d be only guessing but i’d say it had something to do with the sulphur spring out that way- Place in Cheltenham with the same type of spring was called Mountpelier also- During the 18th/19th century it was a big thing for the landed to go to the continent to health spas and would you beleive it, it all started in Spa, Belgium. Places like Cheltenham and Limerick were obviously jumping on the bandwagon and had notions about themselves…
I expect chewy to totally dimiss this theory and inform us it was named after a French hore who worked topless in a local ale house.[/QUOTE]
Maybe there were a few Hugenots there back in the day. There are a couple of Hugenot houses above Ardpatrick on the road to Kildorrery.
Possible, but don’t think so…The Massey’s and Bourkes (De Burgho) Dominated the area
Chirs de Burgho
[QUOTE=“ChocolateMice, post: 1097576, member: 168”]Possible, but don’t think so…The Massey’s and Bourkes (De Burgho) Dominated the area
Chirs de Burgho[/QUOTE]
CM tell us something interesting you’ve discovered about Limerick in your studies that you wouldn’t have known previously.
What are they? From the local locations I’ll take a stab at gentry houses?
The red ones, more or less. It’s basically the distribution of magistrates in the 1830s/40s- Not always big houses. The black are police barracks, at least they were in the earlier part of the 1830s anyway but this was regulalry changing in around this period… the majority of lawlessness was east of Adare where the prime farming land was, you’ll notice this was where there were more magistrates also. You’ll see Castletroy/Monaleen/CastleConnell was top loaded but there’s fuck all from Glin out to Newcastle to Abbeyfeale- Evans Davenport and Edmund O’Dell Westropp were magistrates for the Ballysteen area.