Geoghegan Gallery

Some places and things of Geoghegan interest

At Lowertown, this looks like an ordinary clump of trees ...

but on closer inspection we see that is actually the ramains of one of the most impressive ring forts in Ireland.

This, and the picture left, show the centre of the fort, while ...

here we see the massive embankment ...

that surrounds it.

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The grave of Jack the Buck (before restoration)

Part of a headstone in the old Castletown graveyard, showing a Geoghegan coat of arms.

A coat of arms ergraved on the wall of the Geoghegan burial plot. Killcumreragh graveyard.

Within these walls lie the remains of Rev. Dr.Owen Geoghegan and his family. Killcumreragh graveyard.

Here lyeth the body of the late Rev. Doctor Owen Geoghegan, who departed this life ye 26th May, 1778, aged 72 years. May the Lord have mercy on his soul, and on the souls of his family, who are also interred here.Killcumreragh graveyard.

The engine (left) is an unusual 0-4-0 tank, built to the design of the engineer Samuel Geoghegan for working in the confines of the Guinness Brewery at St. James' Gate, Dublin. Constructed by William Spence and Company in 1895, it was able to be converted, by use of an ingenious converter truck, to shunt Irish standard gauge wagons as well. The locomotive is of an unusual design with the cylinders and crank shaft mounted on top of the boiler and driving the wheels via vertical connecting rods. The small size of the locomotive was dictated by the spiral tunnel linking two parts of the brewery, which made 2 1/2 complete turns on a gradient of 1 in 39. No. 13 arrived in Tywyn in 1956.

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At Lowertown, this looks like an ordinary clump of trees ...	but on closer inspection we see that is actually the ramains of one of the most impressive ring forts in Ireland.	This, and the picture left, show the centre of the fort, while ...
here we see the massive embankment ...	that surrounds it.	.
The grave of Jack the Buck (before restoration)		Part of a headstone in the old Castletown graveyard, showing a Geoghegan coat of arms.
A coat of arms ergraved on the wall of the Geoghegan burial plot. Killcumreragh graveyard.	Within these walls lie the remains of Rev. Dr.Owen Geoghegan and his family. Killcumreragh graveyard.	`Here lyeth the body of the late Rev. Doctor Owen Geoghegan, who departed this life ye 26th May, 1778, aged 72 years. May the Lord have mercy on his soul, and on the souls of his family, who are also interred here.`Killcumreragh graveyard.
	The engine (left) is an unusual 0-4-0 tank, built to the design of the engineer Samuel Geoghegan for working in the confines of the Guinness Brewery at St. James' Gate, Dublin. Constructed by William Spence and Company in 1895, it was able to be converted, by use of an ingenious converter truck, to shunt Irish standard gauge wagons as well. The locomotive is of an unusual design with the cylinders and crank shaft mounted on top of the boiler and driving the wheels via vertical connecting rods. The small size of the locomotive was dictated by the spiral tunnel linking two parts of the brewery, which made 2 1/2 complete turns on a gradient of 1 in 39. No. 13 arrived in Tywyn in 1956.