Timeline
Below is an interactive timeline that puts the history of Blarney Castle into a world context. Click on the links to read more about certain events.
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Heber, son of Milesius, becomes joint King of Ireland |
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Aongus becomes first Christian King of Munster |
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St Columba sails to Iona to convert the Scots and English to Christianity |
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Approximate date of first wooden structure at Blarney site |
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William the Conqueror wins at Hastings |
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Stone structure built at Blarney site |
Battle of Bannockburn |
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Blarney Castle built |
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Birth of the Blarney |
All lands confiscated by the English crown |
Castle besieged by Lord Broghill |
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MacCarthys back in Castle |
MacCarthys leave Blarney Castle forever |
Sir James St. John Jefferyes buys Blarney Castle |
The Court built |
Building of model estate village of Blarney |
Vicar of Wakefield written |
Rock Close landscaped |
French consul visits |
Groves of Blarney |
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The Court destroyed by fire |
Visit of Sir Walter Scott |
The Reliquaries of Father Prout |
Ireland, its Scenery, Characters etc. |
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Jefferyes marry into Colthurst family |
Blarney House built |
Ulysses S Grant regrets |
Future President Taft visits |
Cork and Muskerry Light Railway |
Chicago's World Fair |
European Rest Cure produced |
Winston Churchill visits |
Blarney Stone stays in Blarney |
No imitations |
Hollywood steals the Stone |
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Lolita published |
Did Reagan kiss it? |
Do It Before You Die |
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Celtic culture reaches Ireland |
Arrival of St Patrick to convert the Pagan kings to Christianity |
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Death of St Patrick |
Irish monks set out as missionaries across Europe |
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Book of Kells illuminated |
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Brian Boru defeats the Vikings |
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Arrival of Normans at Baginbun begins the perennial conflict with England |
Henry II brings about end of the Milesian kings |
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English lose control of Ireland for fifty years, except for Dublin and the Pale |
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Battle of Mourne Abbey |
Henry VIII declares himself King of Ireland |
Elizabeth I ascends the English throne |
Elizabeth confiscates Irish land in Munster |
Battle of Kinsale |
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Cromwell lands at Dublin |
Death of Cromwell |
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Battle of the Boyne |
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Act of Union |
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Beginning of Irish famine |
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Stone of Destiny stolen from Westmister Abbey |
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