inistiogue

Updated: May 29, 2025

This angered Lady Louisa, who thereupon consulted the agent, who employed a capable detective from Dublin. The detective came down to Inistiogue as a commercial traveller, wandered about, made the acquaintance of Lady Louisa's maid, of the butler, and of other people about the house, and formed his own conclusions.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

Seigne drove me over through a beautiful country to Woodstock, near Inistiogue, the seat of the late Colonel Tighe, the head of the family of which the authoress of "Psyche" was an ornament. It is the finest place in this part of Ireland, and one of the finest I have seen in the three kingdoms, a much more picturesque and more nobly planted place indeed than its namesake in England.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

The silting up of the river Nore has reduced Thomastown or Ballymacanton, which was its Irish name, from its former importance as an emporium for the country about Kilkenny. The river now is not navigable above Inistiogue.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

The library is very rich, and there are some good pictures, as well as certain statues in the vestibule, which would have no interest for the Weissnichtwo professor of Sartor Resartus, but are regarded with some awe by the good people of Inistiogue.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)