School: Cill Dara (Pres. Convent) (roll number 15599)
- Location:
- Cill Dara, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Sr. Philomena
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- Adjoining the Churchyard of Carrick is the ruinous Castle of Carrick- Oris, formerly belonging to the Berminghams.
This was the Court of Pierce Bermingham in 1305 and consequently the seat of the treacherous Baron, so bitterly complained of by O'Neill and the other Irish Chieftains in their remonstrance to Pope John XXI
O'Connor Faly, Maelmora, his kinsman, and Calvagh O'Connor were invited by Peter Bermingham to an entertainment in his Castle on the Feast of the Holy Trinity and the instant they stood up from table, he cruelly massacred them with twenty-four of their followers, and sold their heads(continues on next page)