JOYCEAN PICS 2011
Cashel (Caiseal), South Tipperary
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  Main Street
  Feehan's Bar, Main Street
  Cashel Folk Village
  St. Dominic's Friary
  The Rock of Cashel
  
  
CONTENTS 2011
   1  Leuven IASIL 2011@Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
   2  Leuven (Fr. Louvain/Ger. Lowen): miscellanea
   3  Brussels (Fr. Bruxelles/ Ger. Brussel) (Mid-/Post-Conference Tour)
   4  Antwerp (Du. Antwerpen/ Fr. Anvers) (Post-Conference Tour)
   5  Ypres (Du. Ieper), West Flanders (Post-Conference Tour)
   6  Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing (Post-Conference Tour)
   7  Dublin (Ir. Baile Atha Cliath) and Joyce
   8  Dublin (Ir. Baile Atha Cliath): miscellanea
   9  Urlingford (Ir. Ath na nUrlainn), County Kilkenny
  10  Cashel (Ir. Caiseal), South Tipperary
  11  Amsterdam (I amsterdam)
  12  Den Haag/'s-Gravenhage (Eng. The Hague)

Cashel (Ir. Caiseal), South Tipperary


Tuesday 26th July 2011


  Cashel (Irish: Caiseal, meaning "stone ringfort") is a town in South Tipperary in Ireland.  Its population was 2936 at the 2006 census.  The town gives its name to the ecclesiastical province of Cashel.  Additionally, the cathedra of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly was originally in the town prior to the English Reformation.  It is part of the parish of Cashel and Rosegreen in the same archdiocese.  One of the six cathedrals of the Anglican Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, who currently resides in Kilkenny, is located in the town.  It is in the civil parish of St. Patricksrock which is in the historical barony of Middle Third.  
  The Rock of Cashel, to which the town below owes its origin, is an isolated elevation of stratified limestone, rising abruptly from a broad and fertile plain, called the Golden Vale.  The top of this eminence is crowned by a group of remarkable ruins.  This ancient metropolis has lost its importance and of its population fell to under 3,000.  Originally known as Fairy Hill, or Sid-Druim, the "Rock" was, in pagan times, the dun, or castle, of the ancient Eoghnacht Chiefs of Munster.  In Gaelic Caiseal denotes a circular stone fort and is the name of other places in Ireland.  The "Book of Rights" suggests that the name is derived from Cais-il, i.e. "tribute stone", because the Munster tribes paid tribute on the Rock.  Here Corc, the grandfather of Aengus Mac Natfraich, erected a fort, and Cashel subsequently became the capital of Munster.  Like Tara and Armagh it was a celebrated court, and at the time of St. Patrick claimed supremacy over all the royal duns of the province, when Aengus ruled as King of Cashel.  
  In the 5th century, the Eoganachta dynasty founded their capital on and around the rock.  In the times following, many kings of Munster reigned here.  Saint Patrick is believed to have baptized Cashel's third king, Aengus.  In 977 the Dal gCais usurper, Brian Boru, was crowned here as the first non-Eoghanacht king of Cashel and Munster in over five hundred years.  In 1101 his great-grandson, King Muircheartach Ua Briain, gave the place to the bishop of Limerick, which also denied it forever to the MacCarthys, the senior branch of the Eoganachta.  The bishops had a famous school in Cashel and sent priests all over the continent, especially to Regensburg in Germany, where they had their own monastery, called Scots Monastery.  
  The Synod of Cashel of 1172 was organised by Henry II of England.  The Synod sought to regulate some affairs of the Church in Ireland and to condemn some abuses, bringing the Church more into alignment with the Roman Rite.  It has been suggested that the seventh act of the Synod called upon the clergy and people of Ireland to acknowledge Henry II of England as their king.  However, a careful reading of the seventh act would not support this interpretation.  Nevertheless, there is little doubt that the King's purpose in requiring the convocation was to overawe the Irish clergy with a display of his power; no doubt he succeeded in this.  In this scenario, the convocation would be viewed as a pretext for the show of strength.  
  In 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, the town was stormed and sacked by English Parliamentarian troops under Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin.  Over 1,000 Irish Catholic soldiers and civilians, including several prominent clerics, were killed in the attack and ensuing massacre.  
  About 450, Saint Patrick preached at the royal dun and converted king Aengus.  The Tripartite Life of the saint relates that while "he was baptising Aengus the spike of the crozier went through the foot of the King" who bore with the painful wound in the belief "that it was a rite of the Faith".  According to the same authority, twenty-seven kings of the race of Aengus and his brother Aillil ruled in Cashel until 897, when Cerm-gecan was slain in battle.  There is no evidence that St Patrick founded a church at Cashel, or appointed a Bishop of Cashel.  St Ailbe, it is supposed, had already fixed his see at Emly, not far off, and within the king's dominions.  Cashel continued to be the chief residence of the Kings of Munster until 1100, hence its title, "City of the Kings".  Before that date, there was no mention in the native annals of any Bishop, or Archbishop of Cashel.  Cormac MacCullinan is referred to, but not correctly, as Archbishop of Cashel, by later writers.  He was a bishop, but not of Cashel, where he was king.  The most famous man in Ireland of his time, but more of a scholar and warrior than an ecclesiastic, Cormac has left us a glossary of Irish names, which displays his knowledge of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and the "Psalter of Cashel", a work treating of the history and antiquities of Ireland.  He was slain in 903, in a great battle near Carlow.  
  Brian Boru fortified Cashel in 990.  Murtagh O'Brien, King of Cashel, in presence of the chiefs and clergy, made a grant in 1101 of the "Rock" with the territory around it to O'Dunan, "noble bishop and chief senior of Munster", and dedicated it to God and St. Patrick.  Then Cashel became an archiepiscopal see, and O'Dunan its first prelate as far as the primate, St. Celsus, could appoint him.   At the synod of Kells, 1152, Cardinal Paparo gave a pallium to Donat O'Lonergan of Cashel, and since then his successors have ruled the ecclesiastical province of Munster.  In 1127 Cormac III of Munster, King of Desmond, erected close to his palace on the "Rock" a church, now known as Cormac's Chapel, which was consecrated in 1134, when a synod was held within its walls.  During the episcopate of Donal O'Hullican (1158-1182), the King of Limerick, Domnall O'Brien, built in 1169 a more spacious church beside Cormac's Chapel, which then became a chapterhouse.  
  Maurice, a Geraldine, filled the see from 1504 to 1523, and was succeeded by Edmund Butler, prior of Athassal Abbey, who was a natural son of Pierce, Earl of Ormond.  In addition to the wars between the Irish and the English there arose a new element of discord, the Anglican Reformation introduced by Henry VIII Tudor.  While residing at Kilmeaden Castle Archbishop Butler levied black-mail on the traders of the Suir, robbing their boats and holding their persons for ransom.  At a session of the royal privy council held at Clonmel in 1539, he swore to uphold the spiritual supremacy of the king and denied the power in Ireland of the Bishop of Rome.  He died 1550 and was buried in the cathedral.  
  Roland, a Geraldine (1553-1561), was created archbishop by the Roman Catholic English Queen Mary.  After a vacancy of six years Maurice FitzGibbon (1567-1578) a Cistercian abbot was promoted to the archbishopric by pope Pius V, but James MacCaghwell was put forward by Elizabeth I of England.  Thus began the Anglican religion at Cashel.  FitzGibbon, who belonged to the royal Desmond family, being deprived of his see, fled to France and passed into Spain where he resided for a time at the Court.  He conferred with the English ambassador at Paris in order to obtain pardon for leaving the country without the Queen's sanction, and to get permission to return.  In this he failed, and going back to Ireland secretly he was arrested and imprisoned at Cork, where he died in 1578.  On the death of MacCaghwell, Elizabeth advanced Miler MacGrath, a Franciscan and Bishop of Down, to the See of Cashel.  He held at the same time four bishoprics and several benefices, out of which he provided for his numerous offspring.  Having occupied the see for fifty-two years, he died in 1622.  His monument in the ruined cathedral bears an epitaph written by himself.  
  Dermod O'Hurley of Limerick, a distinguished student of the university of Louvain in the Duchy of Brabant and professor at Reims in France, was appointed in 1581 by pope Gregory XIII. Having presided over the Roman Catholic diocese secretly for two years, he was discovered and brought before the Lord Justices at Dublin, was tortured upon his refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy to the English crown and was subsequently hanged outside the city in 1583.  
  Dr Butler 2nd (1774-1791), on being appointed to the Roman Catholic diocese, settled in Thurles, where the Roman Catholic archbishops since then have resided.  His successor, Archbishop Bray (1792-1820), built a large church in the early part of the nineteenth century, on the site of which Archbishop Patrick Leahy (1857-1874) erected a splendid cathedral in Romanesque style.  It was completed and consecrated in 1879 by Archbishop Croke (1874-1902) and dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption.  
  The Anglican archbishopric was reduced in status by legislation of 1833 and the bishopric combined initially with Waterford.  
  St Albert (feast January 8), a reputed former bishop, is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic diocese.  The Archbishop of Cashel is Administrator of the ancient Diocese of Emly.  (Extracted from the site of "Wikipedia")

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 (Tuesday 26 July) Main Street, Cashel
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Feehan's Bar
  
   Feehan's Bar is a traditional Irish pub generously serving food with warm friendly atmosphere.  It is located at 105 Main Street, Cashel.  Highly recommended!
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Feehan's Bar, 105 Main Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Feehan's Bar, 105 Main Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Feehan's Bar, 105 Main Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Feehan's Bar, 105 Main Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Feehan's Bar, 105 Main Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) A pint of Bulmers (Original Irish Cider) at Feehan's Bar, 105 Main Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Triple-Decker Club Sandwich at Feehan's Bar, 105 Main Street, Cashel
  
  
   
Cashel Folk Village
  
   Cashel Folk Village is located in Dominick Street, Cashel.  It is a good place to learn local history and products.
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Cashel Folk Village, Dominick Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Cashel Folk Village, Dominick Street, Cashel
  
  
   
St. Dominic's Friary
  
   St. Dominic's Friary was founded by Archbishop David MacKelly for the Dominican order in 1243.  It was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt by Archbishop John Cantwell around 1480.  The structure dates from the thirteenth century but new windows were inserted after the fire.  The friary was dissolved in 1540.  (Extracted form the plaque)
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Dominic's Friary, Dominick Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Dominic's Friary, Dominick Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Dominic's Friary, Dominick Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Dominic's Friary, Dominick Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Dominic's Friary, Dominick Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Dominic's Friary, Dominick Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Dominic's Friary, Dominick Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Dominic's Friary, Dominick Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Dominic's Friary, Dominick Street, Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Dominic's Friary, Dominick Street, Cashel
  
  
   
Rock of Cashel
  
   The Rock of Cashel (Irish: Carraig Phadraig), also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock, is a historic site in Ireland's province of Munster, located at Cashel, South Tipperary.  
  The Rock of Cashel was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion.  Few remnants of the early structures survive; the majority of buildings on the current site date from the 12th and 13th centuries.  Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century.  The picturesque complex has a character of its own and is one of the most remarkable collections of Celtic art and medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe.
  According to local mythology, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles (30 km) north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel.  
  The oldest and tallest of the buildings is the well preserved round tower (28 metres, or 90 feet), which dates from c.1100. Its entrance is 12 feet from the ground, necessitated by a shallow foundation (about 3 feet) typical of round towers.  The tower was built using the dry stone method.  Modern conservationists have filled in some of the tower with mortar for safety reasons.  
  Cormac's Chapel, the chapel of King Cormac Mac Carthaigh, was begun in 1127 and consecrated in 1134.  It is a very sophisticated structure, unlike most Irish Romanesque churches, which are ordinarily simple in plan with isolated decorated features.  The Abbot of Regensburg sent two of his carpenters to help in the work and the twin towers on either side of the junction of the nave and chancel are strongly suggestive of their Germanic influence, as this feature is otherwise unknown in Ireland.  Other notable features of the building include interior and exterior arcading, a barrel-vaulted roof, a carved tympanum over both doorways, the magnificent north doorway and chancel arch. It contains one of the best preserved Irish frescoes from this time period.  
  The Cathedral, built between 1235 and 1270, is an aisleless building of cruciform plan, having a central tower and terminating westwards in a massive residential castle.  The Hall of the Vicars Choral was built in the fifteenth century.  The vicars choral were laymen (sometimes minor canons) appointed to assist in chanting the cathedral services.  At Cashel there were originally eight vicars choral with their own seal.  This was later reduced to five honorary vicars choral who appointed singing-men as their deputies, a practice which continued until 1836.  The restoration of the Hall was undertaken by the Office of Public Works as a project in connection with the European Architectural Heritage Year, 1975.  Through it visitors now enter the site.  
  In 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, Cashel was sacked by English Parliamentarian troops under Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin.  The Irish Confederate troops there were massacred, as were the Roman Catholic clergy, including Theobald Stapleton. Inchiquin's troops looted or destroyed many important religious artifacts.   In 1749 the main cathedral roof was removed by Arthur Price, Bishop of Cashel.  (Extracted from the site of "Wikipedia")
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 (Tuesday 26 July) The Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Cormac's Chapel, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Dormitory of Vicars Choral, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Interior of the Dormitory of Vicars Choral, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Interior of the Dormitory of Vicars Choral, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Interior of the Dormitory of Vicars Choral, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Interior of the Dormitory of Vicars Choral, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Interior of the Dormitory of Vicars Choral, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Patrick's Cross, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Conservation Works at Cormac's Chapel, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Poster of Cormac's Chapel, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Poster of Cormac's Chapel, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) Interior of Cormac's Chapel, the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) The Cathedral of the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) The Cathedral of the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) The Cathedral of the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) The Cathedral of the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) The Cathedral of the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) St. Patrick's Cross, the Rock of Cashel: the original 12th-century high cross conserved in the museum
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 (Tuesday 26 July) The Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) The Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) A view from the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) A view from the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) A view from the Rock of Cashel
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 (Tuesday 26 July) A view from the Rock of Cashel: an old monastery




        


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