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Apr 15, 2006, 4:11:17 AM4/15/06

Was there an actual siege of Ennis?
Guessing during Cromwell but can't find any references.
Thanks for any info.

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Apr 15, 2006, 5:24:35 PM4/15/06

"gcr" <reviewy...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Was there an actual siege of Ennis?
> Guessing during Cromwell but can't find any references.
> Thanks for any info.

But I don't see how that could have become Ennis.

There was siege of a castle very near Ennis called Ballyalla 1642. The castle no longer
exists.

That's probably the one you want.

Alan

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Apr 21, 2006, 12:33:58 AM4/21/06

In article <nwd0g.53050$d5.2...@newsb.telia.net>,
"Alan Crozier" <name1...@telia.com> wrote:

> There was a siege of Enniskillen in 1594, of which you can see a nice picture
> here
> http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/controller/subjectidsearch?id=903
> 4&startid=766&width=4&height=2&idx=2
> or here
> http://tinyurl.com/leg8y
>
> But I don't see how that could have become Ennis.
>
> There was siege of a castle very near Ennis called Ballyalla 1642. The castle
> no longer
> exists.
>
> http://clare.goireland.com/scripts/low/xq/asp/areaid.171/areatype.C/cat.6/Subj
> ectID.165/PremisesID.16669/qx/premises.htm
> or here
> http://tinyurl.com/qwxt5

Thanks for the info. If I get it together I may put it up on wikipedia

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