slieve-an-iron

Updated: May 16, 2025

Athlone, too, received some succours, and the line of the Shannon was still unbroken from Slieve-an-iron to the sea. But still the promised French assistance was delayed. Men were beginning to doubt both King Louis and King James, when, at length at the beginning of May, the French ships were signalled from the cliffs of Kerry.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee - A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2

Athlone, too, received some succours, and the line of the Shannon was still unbroken from Slieve-an-iron to the sea. But still the promised French assistance was delayed. Men were beginning to doubt both King Louis and King James, when, at length at the beginning of May, the French ships were signalled from the cliffs of Kerry.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee - A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete