Saturday, October 25, 2008

Uniacke (Penrose & Judkin) FitzGerald of Corkbeg and Lisquinlan

A mile and a half to the south is the little village of Aghada at which the river steamers occasionally touch. Further on after rounding the headland of Ring lie the bay and fishing village of Whitegate and near them Corkbeg or Little Cork a seat of the Fitzgeralds. At Corkbeg are the ruins of a castle built by the Condons towards the close of the fourteenth century and alienated by them to a branch of the Geraldines two centuries afterwards The Dublin University Magazine

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