Chapter 6: The Bridal of Carrigvarah

The Bridal of Carrigvarah Being a Sixth Extract from the Legacy of the Late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh. In a sequestered district of the county of Limerick, there stood in my early life, some forty years ago, one of those strong stone buildings, half castle, half farmhouse, which are not unfrequent in the South of Ireland, and whose solid masonry and massive construction seem to prove at once the insecurity and the caution of the Cromwellite settlers who erected them. At the tim…