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« on: Friday 12 May 06 15:57 BST (UK) »
Lambay Island
This is an interesting site about Lambay Island situated east of Malahide. I wonder if any ancestors of Rootschat members were among the 780 soldiers and 260 rapparees transported to Lambay and confined there in the 1690s after the defenders of the fort at Ballymore, County Westmeath, surrendered. Before anyone posts a message asking for the meaning of "rapparee" here is the definition taken from the Wikipedia free encyclopedia .. Rapparees were Irish guerrilla fighters who operated on the Jacobite side during the 1690s Williamite war in Ireland. Subsequently the name was also given to bandits and highwaymen in Ireland - many former guerrillas having turned to crime after the war was over. Not much has changed in Ireland since those days .. we still have a few raparees. 
http://www.malahideheritage.com/Lambay%20Island.htm#PrisonersOnLambay

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« Reply #1 on: Monday 18 December 06 00:41 GMT (UK) »
Skerries
The Skerries Historical Society was founded in 1948 as the Old Skerries Society. A magazine called "Time and Tide" is published by the Society. One edition contains an article about the Milverton Demesne which was in the hands of the Coddington family in the 1600s and sold to Hans Hamilton in 1721. The next family there were the Woods family ... George Woods married the daughter of Hans Hamilton and they lived there till the 1950s.

St Patrick Holmpatrick Cemetery, Skerries


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« Reply #2 on: Sunday 22 July 07 14:06 BST (UK) »
Balbriggan

Balbriggan (from Thom's Almanac and General Directory, 1862: County Dublin Directory).

Balbriggan.net contains some history of the town as well as an article by Jack Benton & Joe Curtis about the firm of Smyth and Co. which was established in the town in 1780 and traded for almost exactly 200 years.


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« Reply #3 on: Monday 03 March 08 20:35 GMT (UK) »
Howth

References from the National Archives of Ireland.

Howth & Baldoyle Dispensary Report 1831 - 1832 Subscribers and Committe members

The old Saint Mary's Abbey "Strangers Bank" was used for unidentified victims of disasters at sea.


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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 30 March 08 19:58 BST (UK) »
Dun Laoghaire

Monkstown Hockey Club was formed in September 1894. Among the founder members
were Mr C. P. Ball and Mr H. S. Findlater. www.monkstownhockeyclub.ie/history.htm

History of Monkstown Park and the Christian Brothers School which was opened
at Eblana Avenue on 1st January 1857. www.cbcmonkstown.ie/history.htm

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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 22 April 08 02:47 BST (UK) »
Stillorgan

"Eccentric Archbishop: Richard Whately of Redesdale."
Published by Kilmacud-Stillorgan Local History Society
http://homepage.eircom.net/~cliveocr/Whately%20press%20release.htm

Griffith's Valuation 1848-1851 www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/dublin/stillorgan.php

History of St. Brigid's School & Church http://stbrigidstillorgan.com/8.html

Stillorgan Library www.dlrcoco.ie/LIBRARY/ea.htm

Stillorgan Local History Society http://homepage.eircom.net/~cliveocr/TheSocie.htm

Stillorgan Park www.chaptersofdublin.com/books/ball1-6/Ball1/ball1.6.html

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« Reply #6 on: Thursday 08 May 08 02:16 BST (UK) »
Foxrock

Foxrock Golf Club was founded in 1893. The Royal Exchange Assurance Co., who owned most of the land in Foxrock, opened the club to attract building on their lands.
www.fairway.ie/Dublin/Foxrock3.htm

Foxrock Local History Club started in 1981 http://homepage.eircom.net/~foxrocklocalhistory/index.html

St. Brigid’s Boys’ School, Foxrock, was opened in 1914.  www.stbrigids.ie

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« Reply #7 on: Saturday 14 June 08 12:49 BST (UK) »
Chapelizod

The Royal Irish Artillery, which was created in 1755, was stationed at their barracks at Chapelizod, or on duty around Ireland until 1777. www.royalirish.com/hist_paper.html

Oh dear ... The Barracks was close to the Hospital and in 1797 some of the marksmen based there had problems in hitting their target. Some of their rounds played havoc with the churchyard wall of the Hospital. www.achart.ca/hibernian/chapter01.html

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« Reply #8 on: Friday 20 June 08 16:41 BST (UK) »
In his story "The Spectre Lovers," one of the Ghost Stories of Chapelizod, Joseph Sheridan le Fanu evokes those times when the Royal Irish was stationed there.  Link to story here.