KILMURRY HIDDEN GEMS TOUR NOTES   ‘The man who knows his own half-acre knows the world’ Irish Proverb     Grotto – 11.05am The grotto was built in 1954 for the The Marion Year, a year of special devotion to the Blessed Virgin.  The site chosen is that of Sceach an tSagairt which means The Priest’s Bush.  Tradition has it that a number of priests or monks attached to the medieval church in the old graveyard went on the run during penal times.  They hid out on Cnoc an Tobair but were captured there and were hanged from a tree
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The Warrens of Warrenscourt, County Cork: A look at a family’s social and political beliefs Aidan O’Sullivan     INTRODUCTION Ireland was a country that for many centuries was a land in turmoil. It was a land which for two to three centuries was almost constantly at war. This was in no small part due to the actions of the English monarchy, which sought to exert its influence over its neighbour. It was the time of the plantations both north and south and the inevitable conflict this brought as planters tried to settle the land and the native Irish tried
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