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Beara Breifne Way

Beara Breifne Way

Tracing the Footsteps of O'Sullivan Beare

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Ballygar

30th March 2018 by Beara Breifne

The rural town of Ballygar is situated on the Roscommon/Galway border

It is serviced with a good bus route, accommodation, post office, bank, shops and a family run hotel. It is famous for its carnival which has been held at the beginning of August for the last 50 years. Ballygar is one of the more modern villages built by the O’Kellys.

Aughrane Castle

In the mid-nineteenth centurym Denis Kelly used the stones form the ruins of the monastic settlement to renovate his castle. Aughrane was originally built in the fourteenth century. It was also the home of the famous author Charles O’Kelly. The O’Kellys belonged to an ancient Irish family who became anglicised.

During the Elizabethan wars, like so many other clans, they divided into two: the Queen O’Kellys and the rebel O’Kellys. An O’Kelly from Aughrim marched with O’Donnell to Kinsale, while the head of the family who lived at Castlekelly served as a captain of foot under the Earl of Clanricarde against the disaffected Irish.

The last of the family was D.H.O’Kelly, he died in 1877. The castle was burnt during the “Troubles”, when a troop of British cavalry had been sent over from Mount-Talbot and used the place for storing hay andforage. In Killeroran cemetery, situated between the rivers Shiven and Such, he commemorated his wives by building a round tower on which there is the following inscription:

“Sacred to the memory of the two wives of D.H.O’Kelly. Both English women, they set themselves to the duties of their Irish house, and lived beloved by high and low and died universally lamented”.

Denis Kelly is buried in a vault in the same cemetery:

“He was a Chieftain of the branch of the O’Kelly’s of Screen and candidate for the Kingship of Hymany. He was an earnest Christian and a kind friend”.

Clan Name

Ballygar is part of the ancestral home of the O’Connors and forms a stage of the Beara-Breifne Way which is based on the historic march of O’Sullivan Beara in 1603.

Stamp Location

Ballygar Centra

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Contact the Suck Valley Way

To find out more about the route, accommodation or local services, contact the Suck Valley Way via our contact form, or at:
Suck Valley Contact details

Angling Visitor Conference Centre
Address: Athleague, Co Roscommon
Landline: 090 6663602.

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How to Walk the Beara-Breifne Way

You can walk the whole of O’Sullivan Beare’s route from West Cork to Leitrim

We’ve created a unique walking passport you can use to catalogue your progress over days, months or even years. Each community has chosen a stamp to represent its character, and as you collect your passport stamps, you’ll get to meet some of the people behind the walk’s creation.

 


 

How to use the passport

You can order your  Beara-Breifne Way passport online and plan your route using our handy maps.

Stamp locations are listed on on this website for each walk and walk section. When you complete your  walk, call in to its passport point, and we’ll stamp your passport for you.

At the end of your journey, you can claim the final stamp which proves you walked the entire Beara-Breifne Way!

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Communities from the tip of West Cork to the top of Cavan gathered in Roscommon yesterday to launch the new passport and community stamps visitors can use to track their journeys on the Beara-Breifne Way.

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