Millstreet

The latter has the beautiful Blackwater river to give it beauty; but Millstreet is chiefly remarkable as the _locale_ of the mill which gives it a name; as the habitation of the Rev. Canon Griffin, a Roman Catholic of high culture, who, unlike some of the priesthood, abjures the Land League and all its works; and as the spot on which "Ould Ireland" and New Ireland meet face to face.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

Millstreet is a very different kind of place from Mallow.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

On another occasion he was leaving Millstreet station, about a mile from the town, and when about twenty yards from the station he was fired at and forty grains of shot lodged in the back of his head, neck, and body.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

It is hardly possible, nor would it be worth while, to inquire into the causes which have made one half of Millstreet an opprobrium and the other half a model hamlet.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

Mr. Hegarty's eight hundred acres are, saving one or two little lots, divided between the Millstreet farm and the mountain farm of

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

As an example of the state of affairs, in Millstreet -- a mere village -- there were thirty cases of nocturnal raid in the month of

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

He was fired at coming into Millstreet, and the outrage had been so openly planned, that it was talked of on the preceding evening in every whisky store.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

Mrs. MacCarthy, near Millstreet, had a son, a small proprietor, and he got married.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

Still on the same night, at Millstreet, another Land League gang attacked a house, one of the Land League police being killed, and one of the Crown police wounded.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

Perhaps, however, the spot of all others in which the sharpest contrast occurs between the old life of Ireland and that brought about by "improving" landlords and tenants is the hamlet of Millstreet, situate on the line of railway between this place and Mallow, once a kind of Irish Tunbridge Wells, and famous for the "Rakes of Mallow," whose virtues are immortalised in verse.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker