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Kilcurl (historically ''Kylkeryl'' and ''Kilkirihill'' and ''Kirkirle''; ) comprises the two townland areas of Kilcurl Anglesey and Kilcurl Feronsby. The townlands are situated one mile from its nearest village, Knocktopher, and located on a road to Carrickshock monument one mile away and two miles to Ballyhale. The village of Knocktopher is situated in the parish of Ballyhale, south County Kilkenny, in Ireland. Kilcurl is primarily an area of rich farmland, but is also of historical significance due to the presence of a Castle at Kilcurl Feronsby, the Tithes War memorial at nearby Carrickshock, the ancient Church and graveyard ruins at Kilcurl Anglesey and an Ogham Stone on adjoining lands with Ballyboodan. Its history has been established from extensive records, archives, local historians, recordings and international research. ==History== Ancestry.com’s Roots web references the very large number of Historic Castles of Country Kilkenny including Kilcurl Castle, that number being due to a history dating back to the time of the Cambro-Norman invasion in the late 12th century. They describes Kilcurl Castle as believed to have been built by Treasa Meith for the Purcell family and known to have been forfeited by the Purcells to Oliver Cromwell in 1640's - when he confiscated most of the lands in Knocktopher Barony, as it was known at that time. Near Kilcurl is located the Carrickshock monument, known locally as the site of the Battle of Carrickshock 1831. The Kilcurl connection to it has been extensively documented and recorded. Local knowledge was recorded in a documentary by RTE national radio station, abd digitised courtesy of RTE’s Archives on 18 July 2011 following their original broadcast in 1983. It captures the local story drawn from social memory, as handed down through the generations. It tells of a time when tithe taxes were being enforced despite difficult harvests and of the peasants revolt against what was seen as greedy landlords and greedy clergymen. The first battle took place in Graiguenamanagh on the Carlow-Kilkenny border, but the Carrickshock monument is testimony to what is believed to have been its most important battle. The event’s importance was heightened by the major trial that followed in 1832, where local people were successfully defended by Daniel O'Connell. The trial was accompanied by a gathering that is recorded as been c.200,000 in Ballyhale,1832, people called out from across four adjoining counties by the ringing of church bells along the way. The event and gathering is mentioned in correspondence at Michael Davitt Museum in Mayo. It may have been an inspiration for Daniel O’Connell’s famous monster rallies of 1840’s and before formation of Irish National Land League, which Davitt co-founded in 1879. Independently, Ancestry.com RootsWeb describes the course of the Tithes War 1831-38 as an anti-tithe movement. The social memory aspect of the story and its accuracy, was the subject of a detailed international study, including the story of the Tracey Clan, by Gary Owens at Huron University College, Ontario, Canada in 2004. The ruins of Kilcurl Church of St. Cairill, that gives Kilcurl its name, and its graveyard still remain, with headstones dating back through the 1950s & 60’s and to Battle of Carrickshock of 1831 and earlier. Mocavo’s records from The History and Antiquities states that in the Diocese of Ossory Kilcurl Church was another of the old parochial churches granted to the Priory of Kells in the first years of the 13th century by Mathew Fitz Griffin. It was then known as Kyle-Churrl, or Church of St. Cairill, and as the only saint named Cairill mentioned in the Martyrology of Donegal was “St. Cairill, Bishop, at Tir-Rois,” it presumed he was identical to the Saint of Kilcurl. St Cairill was known to be an Irish missionary to Western Scotland in the 6th century. There are at least two other Cille Choirill churches that are now known - one in Roybridge, Scotland, and a second in Adelaide, Australia. Their connectivity has recently been established back to Cille Choirill in Scotland, but establishing the connection back to Kilcurl in Ireland is ongoing. Also nearby is the location of an Ogham Stone, one of only 14 in Kilkenny, and which is recorded by Megalithic Monuments of Ireland as having been discovered in 1841 when standing erect, though now relocated on the same site. They state that it is one of near 400 discovered in Ireland & Western UK, and was found to be composed of grained slate that has been dated back to 700-900 AD by Ziegler. It is 2.31m in length, 1.75m in width, 0.23m in depth. They say local traditions have translated the inscription as "Here lies Corbmac ó Cuinn". That may be Cormac ua Cuinn, meaning grandson of Conn, and also known as Cormac mac Airt or Cormac Ulfada (long beard) who was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a leading High King of Ireland. He is believed to have ruled from Tara c.250 AD and to be believed to be the most famous of the ancient High Kings that ruled Ireland from 2nd to 4th centuries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kilcurl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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