Christy Mooreâs great grandfather came from Oylegate. He would have been one of the Powerâs, of Powerâs whiskey fame. Powerâs used to get farmers from Oylegate up to Dublin during the winter months to work the distillery.
Hedgehogs love cat kibble⌠i found one at my door last night and was thinking he took a wrong turn but a quick Google tells me they love cat food so he was after the grand prize at the front door.
The part of the Limerick-Cork border between the two red lines follows the path of the River Maigue, from where it rises near Milford to where it fully enters County Limerick near Ballyagran.
Thugs were a band of Indian murderers devoted to the Hindu God Kali who set upon travelers and ritually strangled them before robbing them. This practice was called thuggee.
I read about these chaps when researching our bushwhackers ⌠The Indian variation was far more religious Voodoo than moral/land related that many of our secret societies were.