ENPages That Mention Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, 1110?-1171
[Letter from John O'Donovan (Gorey) to Eugene O'Curry (32 Bayview Avenue, Dublin), referring to ordnance surveys of the counties of Limerick and Tipperary; domestic and health issues; and the Orange Lodge in the tower of the Castle at Ferns, run by Willia
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Gorey May 23rd 1840
I received a letter from Mr. Larcom on the 20th instant which gives me to understand that we have to do the County of Limerick this year as well as, and probably before Tipperary. I quote his very words: "Limerick and Tipperary are the other counties for this year, and I am getting up the books of them as fast as I can. Lime rick is the most advanced."
You will therefore get your part of the extracts for that County ready as soon as you can.
I am recovering my strength very rapidly, thank God, but I perspire too much in consequence of wear ing flannel, what I never work before, and I am afraid to throw it off as the weather is yet very uncertain.
I visited the old Castle of Ferns, which is a stupen dous ruin and in all probability as old as the time of Dermot Mac Murrogh. It now belongs to one of the HyFigeinte, a Mr. William Donovan, who has a very extensive estate in the neighbourhood, and who is as great an orangemen as King Dermot himself. He keeps an orange lodge in one of