![]() ![]() It's now a heritage centre with museum exhibitions on Daniel O'Connell, local history and the Royal Irish Constabulary. It was torched in 1922 during the Irish civil war but rebuilt from 1992 and refurbished in 2013. "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair - Jaysuz it's the cops!" This police barracks was built in schloss or baronial style in 1870-75: the authorities were anxious about Fenian attacks on the new transatlantic telegraph cable, which came ashore at Valentia Island. O'Connell's parents are buried in the graveyard of the former church, a humble affair since it dates from the Penal era which curbed RC worship. Old Abbey of the Holy Cross is a ruin 100 m west of the church. ![]() The marble foundation stone was a gift from Pope Leo XIII, sourced from the catacombs in Rome. The church, built 1888-1902 of granite from County Down, is a mix of neo-gothic and cod-medieval, and still in use as the parish church. It gave him a lifelong determination to overturn the repression of Ireland and especially of its Catholics solely by legal and constitutional means. In 1791 he joined the Jesuit college at Douai, but fled from revolutionary violence back to Britain. O'Connell (1775-1847) "The Great Liberator" was born at Carhan and grew up at Derrynane House.
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