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Category: Echo Rewind
Local history with Monica McGill: Saving St Cuthbert’s graveyard, church and moat from the yahoos
The small ecclesiastical complex comprising St Cuthbert’s church, graveyard and moat is in the townland of Kilmahuddrick, about a mile west of ...
Local History with Monica McGill – Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator, donated funds to the monastery
Today, the buildings which once formed Mount St Joseph Monastery are long gone. To the dismay of many locals who remember the ...
Local History with Monica McGill – The Camac played a central part from early Celtic Christian times
According to the Ordnance Survey, the River Camac rises in the Mount Seskin woodlands (north-west of Brittas), and then meanders through the ...
Local History with Monica McGill – Remembering those who died in the trenches of the Great War
Heritage Week in August 2022 gave Clondalkin families and the wider community an opportunity to acknowledge openly the local men (and boys) ...
Local History with Monica McGill – Clondalkin cobbler was a poet, an author and a social activist
Like his brothers, Patrick Gogarty was a boot and shoe-maker. They lived and worked on Main Street, Clondalkin. However, unlike other members ...
Local History with Monica McGill – Tower is a unique part of our history, heritage and landscape
The Round Tower on Tower Road, Clondalkin is the only surviving original building associated with the Celtic Christian monastery founded here by ...
Local History with Monica McGill – Caldbeck’s instructions ensured security of school for poor kids
Local historian Monica McGill writes for The Echo ahead of her talk on November 3 in Clondalkin Library on the Caldbeck family. ...
Point in Time: The fight for our Hospital
MAKING its way through the streets of Dublin on Sunday, June 21 1998, a squad of 12 high-tech Eastern Health Board ambulances ...
Point in Time: Ballyfermot’s lost jewel
SEPTEMBER marked 25 years since some 650 workers from the Semperit plant in Ballyfermot saw a huge chapter of their working lives ...
Point in Time: Lucan back at the ’90s
IT WAS all happening in Lucan in the 1990s as the country hobbled from a period of bleak recession into the warm ...