Ulster history thread

[seafoid]

I was listening to Eleanor Plunkett by Iarla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE0By5aGkF0

It's from Co Armagh and deals with the Plantation . The tune is by Rossie legend Carolan

Clannad also covered it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpBejjhTi_I

•Eleanor Plunkett of Robertstown, County Meath, is said to have been the last survivor of her family. She was probably related to the Christopher Plunkett who appears in the 1655 Civil Survey of County Meath as an "Irish papist", and proprietor on the premise of "an old castle (Castlecome)". According to stories, 30 members of the family shut themselves up in the castle of Castlecome and were "destroyed by boiling water" (O'Sullivan, Vol 2, p. 95). O'Sullivan believes this is probably an exaggerated story from an unpublished deposition of 1641. However, it is likely she was the sole survivor of the family as the first two lines of the state, "Though there survives in this land Only you of your kindred."

http://irishpage.com/songs/carolan/plunkett.htm

[Orior]

Any relation of Blessed Oliver?

[seafoid]

Any relation of Blessed Oliver?

I wouldn't say so

Oliver was from a branch with a castle in Loughcrew near Olcastle in the west of Co Meath
http://loughcrew.com/
Eleanor is linked to Robertstown in north Meath and previously Armagh
http://www.meath.ie/Tourism/MeathsTownandVillages/RobertstownCastle/

Really comprehensive tourist advice in that link

I think the Plunketts were a big Anglo Norman clan back in the day