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Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Holy Stone

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   In early years Kinsale Harbour reached up to the Glen and also up to what is know as Market Square. So the town must have been much smaller then, than at present As time went on the water cleared off and houses now occupy those places which the sea once covered. The largest and principal streets being now on that spot. Near this spot just opposite the present Court-house is what is now commonly known as the Holy Stone.
   Many hundred years ago in nearly every old town in Ireland there was a cross in the Market Place. Around this cross the people had their goods strewn here they bought and sold and transacted their business. In Wexford a cross like this was to be seen. During the Cromwelliam wars hundreds ran to this cross for protection and they were massacred there by the Ironsides. A cross like this was also in Kinsale. It stood in the place now known as the Holy Stone.
   It was in this locality the men and boys

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   Topaicí

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Criostína Ní Bhuachalla

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Kinsale, Co. Cork

   Faisnéiseoir

   Árd Deacon Mac Cárthaigh

   Inscne

   Fireann