"To Hell or Connacht*" - Even wealthy merchants fell foul of Cromwell - this is one story .
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- *Ireland has four provinces; Leinster (East), Ulster (North), Munster(South) and Connacht (Irish) or Connaught (English) is in the West of Ireland, where many parts were considered poor for farming etc.
Rothe House is a restored late 16th-century merchant's townhouse complex located in the city of Kilkenny. The complex was built between 1594-1610 and is made up of three houses, three enclosed courtyards, and a large reconstructed garden with orchard. The Rothes were thought to have been involved with the Confederation of Kilkenny; formed as a provisional government to protect the Catholic religion. For this they would pay, when Oliver Cromwell would seek revenge on the Irish for their support of the Royalists during the English civil war.
The house is the only remaining example of a complete burgage plot in Ireland and considered to be nationally significant because of the range of original post-medieval features that survive. The property is owned by the Kilkenny Archaeological Society and acts as a museum, which is open to the public.
The garden to the rear of the house has been reconstructed to reflect a typical 17th-century garden. Kilkenny's medieval city wall forms part of the House complex.
#kilkenny #cromwell #rothehouse
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Thanks so much for this. I've been trying to wrap my brain around this particular historical period, and this video just clarified in a few minutes, what hours of reading couldn't.
Thanks for the compliment and contribution.
another terrific post -- keep 'em coming!
Thank You!
Very interesting. I'm American of Irish, Scots-Irish, Czech and Welsh descent. Most of my ancestors moved to America for economic reasons but my Catholic Welsh ancestors became so-called Cavaliers in the Catholic Maryland colony, coming to America right after the English Civil War. It seems they were people of substance as they brought some very nice furniture with them, my favorite being a Gentleman's Sword Chair, a chair where one of the legs sits between the gentleman's legs such that he could sit there with his sword still strapped on. The indication is that Cromwell made the whole area uninhabitable for Catholics.
Thanks for the input, yes there was great persecution of the Catholic faith at this time.
Cromwell and his army massacred whereever they went, his intention was not to make catholics uncomfortable and submissive to a brit crown, it was to massacre and genocide tje irish catholics , majority of them descendants of the old Gaelic order who held righteous and ancestral inheritance to the land of Ireland. He was a beast and all who fought evidence to him.
Oh and it has never happened in reverse has it ? Not one Catholic-and certainly not it's leaders ! - have ever done anything similar . And before you accuse me of being a raging Prot, I am not . I do not follow any organised body that describes itself as a " religion " .
Rotchild family link kepts getting mentioned through out families that were granted lands in this video. The family still live in the 1% today. Very nice video but great example of a family that has its influence all over the world. I am looking forward to visiting kilkenny
Thanks for the compliment, TBH I'm not sure of the links with the Rothschilds but enjoy your trip to Kilkenny, worth doing some research first to appreciate the ground you walk on, as I walked the house, I couldn't help thinking about the family angst as the Cromwell forces approached!
There's a street, a building and a rifle range named Connaught over here in Ottawa. I wonder if it references Connacht?
Yes it does, there are two spellings, the first one you have is how the English would spell it, the second is accepted as the Irish way.
Connaught is the Irish language version, Connacht is the English language version.
Connaught is original, native you could say👍
Fair enough and thanks 🙂
I would think so!
@@primalireland-histcultWe pronounce Rothe house Row-th house here in Kilkenny not as you pronounce it but I think they try to pronounce an English name just with an Irish sound so it's sounds stupid. The Roth's been around gathering wealth a long time.
Nice job!
A very interesting video. I never knew what the Parliamentarians got up to in Ireland.
Yes and much worse than this.
This is comparatively so tame. Drogheda and Wexford are the real horror stories
Yes indeed but Drogheda and Wexford are well told on youtube.
Never forget...
One of my ancestors married into the Rothe family back in the 1500's. Our ancestry reads like a historical drama played out over the centuries. 😅
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great vid
Thanks very much!
Wealthy Flemish Guy thrown out by English Guy who gives a toss
Cromwell was a germ
Good man Wayne but I could think of more colourful words to describe him!!
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He was a traitor to England and the English.
@@EverGlorious22nd168 England and the English taxes funded him so there is some responsibility there.
That is an insult to germs....
And we still have a cromwellsfort road. 😢
And the old brit family who acquired the estate they call Lough crew house and gardens now in west Meath. It lies across the valley to where our ancient Neolithic ceremonial monuments are positioned.
@katinss9983 nothing new in irelnad selling itself off to the highest bidder, old enemy or new.