User talk:Pjshanahan

Rahealty Castle - In Rahealty the Purcell castle erected about the fifteenth century stands within a circular fort which may or may not be the 'rath of the doe' - Rath-Eilte. The castle in fairly good preservation is sixty feet high and quadrangular with corners rounded on the outside similar to the older portion of the castle of Loughmore. It has a watch-tower on the top, a murdering hole and a dungeon i.e., a vaulted chamber in the thickness of the wall with a trap-door to let a prisoner down. The walls of the castle are 9 feet thick. The natives have two stories connected with the ruin:

One tells of a dwarf of two feet high terrorising the night-walkers.

The other well-thought-out goes like this... Before clocks were invented a man from Ballyduff let the time slip by - somewhere that he was "coordeeucth". As he passed the ruin at midnight he saw a white girl being let down by a rope from the top of the castle. Needless-to-say, he perspired and ran for his life.

The Castle is now owned by Thomas & Breda Shanahan, Rahealty, Thurles

The Furze
The Furze is a town land in the parish of Thurles.

Its located at It is located at 52° 41' 15" N, 7° 46' 40" W.

Other links to The Furze are

https://www.facebook.com/TheFurzeStud/

http://starsystems.ie/