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4 unusual facts about County Offaly


Bridget Driscoll

The scientist Mary Ward was killed while travelling as a passenger in County Offaly, Ireland (then part of the United Kingdom) during 1869, the first recorded car accident victim of any kind.

County Offaly

Offaly County Council is the local authority for the county.

James King, 5th Earl of Kingston

Kingston's wife and sole heir, now styled the Dowager Countess of Kingston continued to live at and manage the crumbling affairs of Mitchelstown, aided from 1873 by her second husband, William Downes Webber, of Kellyville, Queen's County.

Patrick Buckley

Buckley was born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland and is now living at The Oratory, Larne, County Antrim, a house which used to belong to the Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor and which Buckley refused to leave following his suspension from the priesthood in 1986 by the then bishop, Cahal Daly.


Charles Howard-Bury

A member of the Howard family, he was born at Charleville Castle, King's County, Ireland, the only son of Captain Kenneth Howard-Bury (1846–1885), son of the Honourable James Howard.

Grey Partridge

In Ireland it is now virtually confined to the Lough Boora reserve in County Offaly where a recent conservation project has succeeded in boosting its numbers to 900, raising hopes that it may be reintroduced to the rest of Ireland.

GUBU

First he decided to purchase a gun and responded to an advertisement by Dónal Dunne, a farmer in Edenderry, County Offaly who had a shotgun for sale.

Henry George Farmer

He was born in Birr Barracks, Crinkill, King's County now County Offaly, Ireland, where his father (also named Henry George Farmer, d. 1900) was serving in the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment of the British Army.

Meelick Martello Tower

Meelick Martello Tower is a Martello tower constructed on Moran Island in the River Shannon between Meelick, County Galway and Clonahenoge, County Offaly.

Stanley Armour Dunham

The most recent native European ancestor was Falmouth Kearney, a farmer who emigrated from Moneygall, County Offaly, Ireland, during the Great Irish Famine and settled in Jefferson Township, Tipton County, Indiana, United States.

Stephen D. Houston

From 1978–79 he spent a year as an exchange student at Edinburgh University, Scotland, where he participated in his first field trips, excavating Mesolithic and Neolithic bog sites in Offaly and Mayo counties, Ireland, and at a Bronze Age henge near Strathallan, Scotland.


see also

Biffo

A pejorative nickname for someone from County Offaly, Ireland, particularly associated with Brian Cowen, Taoiseach of Ireland 2008–2011 (from that county)

Mainchín

Manchán of Lemanaghan (d. 665), son of Sillán, patron of Liath Mancháin, now Lemanaghan, in County Offaly.

Manchester Martyrs

Monuments erected in honour of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien stand in Limerick, Kilrush (County Clare), Clonmel (County Tipperary), Birr (County Offaly), Ennis (County Clare), Glasnevin Cemetery (Dublin), and in St Joseph's Cemetery, Moston, Manchester.

Patrick Joseph Dillon

Dillon received his early education at school in Banagher, County Offaly and then entered the missionary seminary at All Hallows College, Dublin and was ordained priest on 25 October 1863.

Sophie de Condorcet

She survived to marry on 4 July 1807 an exiled Irish revolutionary, Arthur O'Connor (1763/5-1852, born in Mitchelstown, in County Offaly).