Once Upon a Road :
The History and Times of an Irish Butter Road: The 1747 Turnpike from Listowel to Cork /
Joe Harrington.
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| Summary: | "In 1747, John Murphy went to Parliament in search of an Act to give him the right to build a turnpike/toll road from Ballyduhig, near Listowel, Co. Kerry to a spot that became known as Kerry Pike outside Cork City. It would pass through Lyreacrompane, Castleisland, Cordal, Shinnagh, Millstreet, Aubane, rylane, Vickerstown and Tower, have six tool gates with charges for 61 years. In a time when butter was gold, this first Kerry to Cork Turnpike/toll road provided a passage from the dairy lands of north Kerry to the renowned Cork Butter Market. Every mile on 'The Road John Murphy Made' tells its own tale and along the way we will meet Whiteboys and Hedge School Masters, Freedom Fighters and Moonlighters, Famines and Natural Disasters, Mass Rocks and Wedge Tombs, Bronze Age Hoards and Bog Butter, Lost Estates and Evicted Tenants - and the part played by the road in the Slave Trade." -- Taken from back cover of volume. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lyreacrompane :
Joe Harrington,
2022.
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| Notes: | Includes index. Physical description: 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 1803521503 9781803521503 |
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