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BreakingNews.ie
06-07-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Myles Keogh: The Carlow man who fought in three wars
Myles Keogh, born in 1840 in Co Carlow, fought in three wars on two continents in his short life. According to the Dictionary of Irish Biography, Keogh was born on March 25th, 1840, at Orchard House, Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow. Advertisement He was the son of John Keogh, a farmer, and Margaret Keogh (née Blanchfield). Keogh was educated at the local school in Leighlinbridge, and he may also have later attended St Patrick's College, Maynooth, before leaving Ireland in 1860 to serve in the papal army. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Irish battalion (August 1860) and served under Major Myles O'Reilly and fought with distinction at the siege of Ancona. After the war, with the reduction of the papal army, he managed to retain his commission and served in the company of Irish Zouaves. He left the papal service in February 1862 and was awarded the Medaglia di Pro Petri Sede and the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Pius IX for his war service. Advertisement The Dictionary of Irish Biography's David Murphy then recounts that Keogh travelled to America, where the civil war was raging, hoping to obtain a commission in the union army. Armed with letters of introduction from Irish-American friends, Keogh and several other Irish ex-papal officers petitioned officials at the war department. Keogh was commissioned as a captain in April of 1862 and he was made ADC to Dungannon-born James Shields. He subsequently served as an ADC to Generals McClellan, Buford, and Stoneman, and was present at over 80 engagements, including the battles of Port Republic, Cedar Run, Second Bull Run/Manassas, and Antietam/Sharpsburg. Advertisement He fought with Buford's 1st Cavalry Division, which made contact with, and delayed, the confederate army on the first day of the battle of Gettysburg (July 1st, 1863). Keogh was captured in July 1864 with Stoneman while on a raid to Atlanta and he was imprisoned in Charleston, South Carolina. He was later exchanged and served until the end of the war. Brevetted lieutenant-colonel in April 1866, he immediately found himself without a regimental position because of postwar reductions. He again lobbied friends and the war department, and eventually succeeded in gaining a regular army commission as a second lieutenant in the 4th US Cavalry. In July 1866, Keogh transferred into the newly formed 7th Cavalry with the rank of captain. This élite regiment, commanded by Gen. George Armstrong Custer, served in frontier stations throughout the late 1860s and early 1870s. Advertisement Brief return to Ireland Keogh fought in the 1866–67 campaign against the Oglala Sioux and returned to Ireland on leave (1869), staying with his brother Tom Keogh at Park House, Co Carlow. While there he sorted out financial arrangements for two unmarried sisters, giving them a property in Co Kilkenny that he had inherited in 1863. On his return to the regiment (March 1870) he was given command of I Troop. Keogh's career remains inextricably linked with that of Custer, and he served with him during his last campaign in the summer of 1876. He was with Custer's battalion at the Little Big Horn river in the Montana Territory on June 25th, 1876, and, as the second most senior officer with the detachment, commanded the right-wing column of three troops. Advertisement Death and legacy There has been much debate as to what occurred when Custer engaged the Native American forces just after 3pm that day and, as he and all his men were killed, some doubt must remain. The Dictionary of Irish Biography said modern research and archaeological evidence would suggest that Keogh and his men fought tenaciously and were killed while trying to reach Custer's final position after the right wing collapsed. On June 27th, 1876, members of Gen. Terry's column reached the Little Big Horn battlefield and began identifying bodies. Keogh was found with a small group of his men, surrounded by the evidence of a fierce fight. His was one of the few bodies that had not been mutilated by the Native American force, possibly because of a papal or religious medal that he wore about his neck. Irish-born Lt James Henry Nowlan, a close friend, found Keogh's horse Comanche standing near the body. Comanche, the only army survivor of the battle, was retired and kept with the regiment until his death in 1891; his body was stuffed and is on display at the University of Kansas. The Dictionary of Irish Biography reports that Keogh was apparently responsible for introducing the tune 'Garryowen' to the 7th Cavalry; it is still used as a regimental march. Some Keogh letters and papers, covering the period 1861–75, are in the possession of the family. There is a stained-glass window in St Joseph's chapel, Tinryland, Co Carlow, commemorating Keogh, his brother Tom, and his sister-in-law Alice Keogh. He is also commemorated by a monument in Leighlinbridge and his name is inscribed on the Little Big Horn battlefield monument. Orchard House is still occupied by members of the Keogh family, and items relating to him, including a dress uniform, are on display in Carlow town museum. Keogh never married but at the time of his death was engaged to a Miss Martin, one of the Throop Martins of Auburn, New York. Initially buried on the battlefield, his remains were disinterred in October 1877 and buried with full military honours in the Throop Martin plot at Auburn cemetery.
North Wales Chronicle
06-07-2025
- North Wales Chronicle
Tales revealed during restoration of Anglesey listed building
They have come in a redevelopment of the Grade II Listed house Lleiniog Castle, historically known as Lleiniog, at the Lleiniog Barns development between Llangoed and Penmon. The details are found in a report undertaken by Archaeology Wales Ltd, for Mark Dauncey, of the Amos Group Ltd, in na Anglesey County Council planning document. The 'archaeology building recording level 3/4 ' document is a condition attached to Listed Building Consent required ahead of redevelopment and part of a recent planning application, for the variation of conditions. The house is near the Norman motte and bailey castle Aberlleiniog Castell also known as Lleiniog Castle, near the shore. The striking house has been part of the estates of Welsh Copper Mine owner the Right Honourable Lord Dinorben and the influential Anglesey Bulkeley family. The East Facing Elevation Of The House (Image Ioacc Planning Documents) The report describes how the property was built by Thomas Cheadle in 1630. He had been a constable of Beaumaris, and Sheriff of North Wales. The 17th century structure, which incorporates a three-unit, two storey Plas or manor house, was possibly built over an earlier 16th century building. The Cheadle family had been 'relative newcomers,' to Anglesey, the report explains. Thomas's father, Richard had arrived on the island in the late 16th century, apparently after having 'driven a herd of pigs from the Bulkeley estates in Cheadle, Cheshire, to Beaumaris, where he stayed in service to the Bulkeleys'. 'The Bulkeley family themselves originated in Cheshire, but by the 16th century were one of the most influential families in northwest Wales, owning land across all of Anglesey' the report said. 'Sir Richard Bulkeley III, was a friend of Queen Elizabeth and the family seat was at Baron Hill, to the west of Beaumaris'. Richard Cheadle, was also a Steward on the Baron Hill estate and later acted as a shipping agent for Sir Richard, in Beaumaris. He was granted property in Anglesey by Sir Richard but was thought to have lived in Beaumaris. Early 20th century photograph of The east front of Lleiniog (IoACC Planning Documents Image) His son Thomas Cheadle, born around 1599, was well educated, having attended Beaumaris grammar school. The report says: 'at the age of 12 or 13 he ran away to sea to become a pirate. 'When he returned four years later, he was employed by Bulkeley, who was probably influential in gaining him a royal pardon in 1624. 'It has been speculated that Bulkeley may have employed Thomas to utilise his piracy experience for his own smuggling activities… 'Whilst that may have been the case, Thomas was also involved in legitimate business for Bulkeley as an agent, and his signature is found as a witness on various documents in the 1610s and 1620s' the report notes. In the early years of the Civil War, Thomas Cheadle, was now knighted, and accused of using the arsenal of Beaumaris castle to refortify Castell Lleiniog. 'While professing loyalty to the Royalist cause, according to William Williams, the report says, he was 'simultaneously offering Castell Lleiniog for the use of the Parliamentary forces'. Inside Lleiniog during the restoration (Image IoCC planning documents) In 1646, the report goes on, 'a group of Parliamentarians in Beaumaris under truce began to doubt their safety and removed to Castell Lleiniog, writing to Lord Bulkeley. 'The castle was besieged and taken by the Royalists and Cheadle was imprisoned until Anglesey was taken by the Parliamentarians later in the same year. 'Cheadle's health began to fail, not aided by two subsequent imprisonments in 1648 and 1650, the latter for debt. 'He died in 1653. In his will, dated 21st August 1651, he left all his lands, tenements and hereditaments to his brother, Rowland Cheadle, and on his brother's death his nephew, also Rowland, and subsequent heirs. Restoration at Lleiniog (Image Ioacc Planning Documents) In the late 17th century, historical documents indicate that the house formed part of the Bulkeley's Baron Hill estate. The details describe how Sir Richard Bulkeley III, died in 1621, and his son, Sir Richard Bulkeley IV, inherited the estate. However the report reveals: 'Thomas began conducting an affair with Sir Richard IV's wife, Lady Anne. When Sir Richard met an untimely end in 1631, Thomas and Anne were charged with his murder by poisoning. They were found not guilty and later married, resulting in a feud with the Bulkeley heirs and Lady Anne disowning her children'. The report stated that 'the Bulkeley family biographer, William Williams of Beaumaris, writing c. 1674, describes how after the marriage Thomas 'lived very handsomely, bought neere £80 per annum lands in Penmon, Lleiniog, Llanvaes. '[He] built good houses, as the Red house in Bewmares, the house adjoining the Church of Penmon, the house at Lleiniog, and the Castle at Lleiniog.''. In the 18th century, Lleiniog appears to have remained part of the Baron Hill estate with a series of tenants listed in tax returns, throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. One of the staircases at the Lleiniog property (Image IoACC planning documents) The report says it was later bought by a Hugh Hughes (1706-1774), 'a small squire' described as the the 'wily secretary' and agent to an eminent Anglesey landowner, Dr. Edward Wynne of Bodewryd, Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford. Hughes was said to have died in 1773-4 and his will, dated 1772, shows that the ownership of Lleiniog passed to his wife Mary. After her death, ownership passed to their eldest son, the Reverend Edward Hughes, said to have married into the Anglesey copper mining industry and who bought Kinmel, Denbighshire in 1786, as the family seat. His son William became 1st Baron Dinorben in 1831, who took on ownership in 1833, with a number of tenants at Lleiniog listed over the years. The report points to documents dated June 14, 1867 detailing the lease of the farm by the Baronets Dinorben of Llysdulais to Henry Brasier Mitchell, for an estimated 94 acres known as Lleiniog. It's suggested under the tenure of Mitchell's, a wealthy couple, that the house may have become known as 'Lleiniog Castle,' and extended. Mitchell's cousin William Preston was living at Lleiniog by 1891, '… an agent to the Baron Hill estates,' the report said. Preston lived at Lleiniog until at least 1904. By 1912, a Dr. Richard Williams MD is thought to have lived there. In 1923, the report points to documents held in the Anglesey Archives record confirming the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Clavel Esme Vivian M.C. of 'Lleiniog Castle,' Beaumaris, to Deputy Lieutenant, by Richard Henry Williams Bulkeley Baronet KCB the report states. Photographs of the house from the late 20th and 21st centuries are located in the Anglesey Archives. The house was altered and extended in the mid-19th century. It was listed in 1962, updated in 2002. The listing describes 'a substantially sub-medieval house with significant surviving interior detail, and good external Georgian character retained from C18 remodelling' but the listing chiefly describes the house before remodelling between 2000-3.
Glasgow Times
02-07-2025
- Glasgow Times
How St Mary and St Anne's became Glasgow's Tron Church
This led to a church being established at the south side of the street of St Teneu or St Enoch, to bear the name of Mary of Loretto and of St Anne, her mother. With the consent of the patrons, one of the chaplainries of the church of St Roche's was, in about, incorporated with the Collegiate Church of St Mary and St Anne. John Bell Minister of the Laigh Church Glasgow Museums (Image: Supplied) The Chaplain of St Roche was appointed a canon of that church, subject to the obligation to say mass and other offices in St Roche's Chapel for the souls of its founder. The Cathedral and the Collegiate Church of St Mary and St Ann both maintained choirs in pre-Reformation Glasgow. The Cathedral choir will have sung daily at Mass and each of the eight regular prayer times for the Divine Office. Boys in both choirs studied at the Sang School. (Image: Supplied) The Collegiate Church of St Mary and St Ann had an organist who directed the choir and taught the three boy choristers who studied in the Sang School where they learned how to sing plainchant and polyphony, how to sing improvised harmonies, and play the organ. The boys were removed from their post when their voices broke, but there was provision for them to continue their education at the Grammar School for another two years. After the Reformation, the church with its cemetery in the Trongate, fell into a ruinous state. (Image: Supplied) It was sold by the council in 1570 and reacquired by them around 1592. They had it repaired to be used as a Church of Scotland. The church, which for more than a quarter of a century after the Reformation had been in a poor state, was repaired by the town and was used as a place of worship under the name of the Tron or New Kirk, sometimes known as Laigh Church. They then needed to find the means of supporting a minister. The old revenues of the church had been given to the magistrates of the city by Queen Mary's Act of 1566-7 to be used to fund for poor scholars at the college. (Image: Supplied) There were allegations that these bursaries had been improperly applied to the support of the richest men's sons. An Act of Parliament was therefore obtained in 1594, cancelled the bursaries, and instead devoted the revenues "to the sustentation of the ministry within the city of Glasgow". The bell house of the old church seems to have been occupied till the alterations were made, as in 1593 a tenant was allowed a reduction of half a year's rent "in respect the steeple was taken down". In 1594, the Scottish Parliament passed an act in favour of the ministry of Glasgow, referring to a gift which, after the Reformation, had been made to the magistrates of the city of the chaplaincies and emoluments of the "New Kirk of the College of Glasgow," meaning apparently the Collegiate Church of St Mary and St Ann. A little over 10 years later, the Tron Church was repaired and restored as a Protestant place of worship and a fourth minister was introduced to the city. In 1599, the ministers applied to the Town Council to ask that the town be divided into two separate parishes to allow each minister to know their flock. The city agreed to this on the understanding that the citizens should not be burdened with the building of more kirks or the support of more ministers than already existed. The Tron was as a result separated from the High Kirk. Additions were later made to the church, and the steeple which formed such a conspicuous spot in Trongate was built in 1637/8. In 1793, the old Church was destroyed by fire, and the Tron or St Mary's Church was built on the same site.
