Category: Echo Rewind

History with Monica McGill: Tully’s Castle built to protect against unwelcome incursions

History with Monica McGill: Tully’s Castle built to protect against unwelcome incursions

Echo Rewind

LEAVE Clondalkin’s Main Street behind and walk up Monastery Road.  Opposite Castle Park roadway there’s a square tower - Tully’s Castle.  It’s ...

History with Monica McGill: Residents caring about our built heritage are dismayed

History with Monica McGill: Residents caring about our built heritage are dismayed

Echo Rewind

“WHAT we have here is failure to communicate.” - a famous line from the 1967 American film “Cool Hand Luke”. Actor Martin ...

Local history with Monica McGill: How people spend all their money has certainly changed

Local history with Monica McGill: How people spend all their money has certainly changed

Echo Rewind

In the space of a lifetime, Ireland’s currency has gone from pounds to punts to euros. In the era of our pounds ...

History with Monica McGill: First patent for typewriter taken out in 1714

History with Monica McGill: First patent for typewriter taken out in 1714

Echo Rewind

ONCE upon a time in the office, this article was first produced on a laptop computer. However, typists, journalists and writers of ...

Monica McGill: Time to make the most of our past and enrich our future

Monica McGill: Time to make the most of our past and enrich our future

Echo Rewind

January starts the new year, hopefully with feelings of fresh beginnings and positive intentions bolstered by the good will of Christmas. The ...

Monica McGill: The time of year to make choices and buy carefully . . .

Monica McGill: The time of year to make choices and buy carefully . . .

Echo Rewind

CHRISTMAS is a joyful and exciting time when most people give and receive good wishes and presents. However, the weeks before Christmas ...

Monica McGill: Viking settlement established by King Olaf the White

Monica McGill: Viking settlement established by King Olaf the White

Echo Rewind

Clondalkin is different now from long ago. Modern living conditions, the services we expect and enjoy were not available then. Our way ...

Monica McGill: ‘Woodman, spare that tree – touch not a single bough!’

Monica McGill: ‘Woodman, spare that tree – touch not a single bough!’

Echo Rewind

REGULAR readers of The Echo may recall Maurice Garvey’s recent article “Criticism over the felling of ‘iconic’ Monterey Cypress tree” published in ...

Local history with Monica McGill: Vicars, widows and pollution from Clondalkin paper mills

Local history with Monica McGill: Vicars, widows and pollution from Clondalkin paper mills

Echo Rewind

Church Terrace is a row of four cottages on Tower Road, Clondalkin. They are an important part of our heritage and history. ...

Local history with Monica McGill: Scoundrels, skulduggery and surrendering of sacred lands

Local history with Monica McGill: Scoundrels, skulduggery and surrendering of sacred lands

Echo Rewind

Researching one topic uncovers another. So arose this brief account of Deansrath and some other lands once known as Bay Farm in ...