Tir Eoghan the province of Owen was once a great principality, which stretched its frontier from the west of Lough Erne across Lough Neagh to the shores of the Channel by Belfast. In the days when Irelandhad a fate of her own Tyrone was the country of the O'Neill. Centuries...
Ardara, Co. Donegal in 1893
The town or village or Ardara, or Hill of the Fort, takes its name from a very conspicuous earthen fort which stands on a hill about 200 perches to the north-east of the town. The "Nesbitt Arms Hotel" offers every inducement to tourists or anglers, and the scenery is magnificent....
Burtonport in 1893
The tourist should visit this interesting spot, at which a boat may he chartered for Arran and the other islands. The position of "the Port," as it is locally called, is extremely advantageous for commercial purposes, especially as, through the energy and enterprise of Messrs. Hammond & Herdman, regular steam...
William Sydney Clements (Lord Leitrim) (1806 – 1878)
William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and notorious landlord. Born in 1806, he was educated in Sandhurst and served in Portugal for the British Army between 1826 and 1827. In 1831 he was promoted to captain. Following his father's death he was promoted to...
The murder of Lord Leitrim
The third Earl of Leitrim had served in the army, rising to be a colonel, before he succeeded his father in the title. He was a man by no means wholly bad and possessed qualities which might, under happier circumstances, have made him famous absolute courage and a perfectly indomitablc...