Posted on September 24, 2022
Thanks to Donna for this week’s post whose blog site can be accessed HERE.
MB harks (or harps!) back to an old post to take up this week’s photo challenge – Over The Hill, and he includes a link to that post below for those interested in reading the full story/post.
In St. John’s Church graveyard in the village of Knockainey, mere spitting distance from MB’s HX locality back home, lies a most intriguing gravestone. The gravestone inscription tells the tale of one John Murphy, who was well over the hill – more than 100 years before he actually died!
Read MoreCategory: Irish man in the Middle East Tagged: Adventure, Cemetry, Death, Grave, Over The Hill, Photography, Travel
Posted on January 22, 2016
It’s been a while. Read More
Category: Irish man in the Middle East Tagged: Ancient, Cahercorney, Death, Grange, Grange Book, Grave, Graveyard, Limerick, Old, Times Past
Posted on March 5, 2015
In a graveyard near MB’s HX homeland stands a headstone with the following inscription:
John Murphy died this
11th day of October 1784
aged 219 years
May the Lord have mercy on his soul
Category: Irish man in the Middle East Tagged: alien, Church, Grave, Gravestone, Headstone, Herbal remedy, Ireland, Keeper, Knockainey, Outer space, Quack, Secret, St John's Church, Vampire
Posted on September 16, 2013
New Church (In Gaelic – Teampall Nua)
There is an old church ruin called ‘New Church’ (or ‘Teampall Nua’ in the Irish Gaelic language) back in HX, next to Lough Gur lake (check out loughgur.com).
Teampall Nua was built in 1679 and replaced an older chapel which was used by the local Earls of Desmond. It is still referred to as New Church (or by its Gaelic name) to this day. It was endowed with a chalice and patten which bear the inscription:
“The guift of the Right Honourable Rachel Countess Dowager of Bath to her chappel att Loughgur in the Kingdom of Ireland Anno Domini 1679”
The famous Irish poet/harpist Thomas O’ Connellan, who died in 1698 in nearby Bourchiers Castle, is buried here in an unmarked grave, as is Owen Bresnan (1847-1912), local poet and historian.
Category: Ireland, Lough Gur, New Church, Teampall Nua, Thomas O Connellan Tagged: Adventure, Church, Grave, Ireland, Monochrome, New Church. Teampall Nua, Owen Bresnan, religion, ruin, Thomas O Connellan, Travel
Posted on August 2, 2013
Morning lads
Major panic last night. Laptop conked out when battery died. MB tried to recharge, but over period of few hours battery just wouldn’t take charge, and normally obedient laptop downright refused to turn on. What to do at time like that?!
Category: Graveyard, humor, Humour, Irish man in the Middle East, Laptop, Middle East Life, Photography, Riyadh, Riyadh airport, Saudi Arabia, The Dimwit Diary Tagged: Grave, Graveyard, Humor, Humour, Irish man in the Middle East, Laptop, Middle East Life, Photography, Riyadh, Riyadh airport, Saudi Arabia, The Dimwit Diary
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