A few landmarks in Rathmullan

Zoonie
Sat 23 Jul 2022 05:44
You wouldn't think such a tucked away place as Rathmullan, eight miles up the lough from the sea, would have had such religious and military importance over history but it is its strategic location, safe from and yet with easy access to the sea and the rest of the world and its access by land that has made it both the target and safe haven of many nations. The nineteenth century battery to offer resistance to the French, the ancient abbey with its Jacobean dwelling house added in the seventeenth century and all left to fall in to ruin after 1770.

Then Captain Pakenham's well fortified tomb, I guess back in the day when the French were a threat, someone might have wanted to steal his body!?The next picture where the grass slopes down to the rocks and water is where a castle once stood, now a busy air b&b provides clients with rooms instead.

The last picture shows the bay from where the Earls fled back in 1607.


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