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  • Carrick-on-Suir, which is where the Clancy Brothers, the folk singers, come from.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Ibbitson 2010

  • It turned out it was so we zipped in after the Lismore adventures and a short stop at Carrick on Suir to see the disappointing and locked (and fenced) supposed Castle Ormonde.

    Waterford, Ireland « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • I think suddenly of my own grandmother of how she would tell her favourite story not of men, nor gods nor heroes but of how when she was small she had in this world one treasure an string of beads, a bracelet that she found in the river a gift from Suir for rescuing a swan

    Archive 2007-01-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

  • I think suddenly of my own grandmother of how she would tell her favourite story not of men, nor gods nor heroes but of how when she was small she had in this world one treasure an string of beads, a bracelet that she found in the river a gift from Suir for rescuing a swan

    At Cluain Moccu Nois Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

  • From 6.45am on the 9th of July, around 70 of the world's most beautiful Tall Ships began their journey down the River Suir, making their way to Dunmore East and the start of the 2005 Tall Ships' Races.

    Newcastle Tall Ships Race 2005 ILuvNUFC 2005

  • The salmon was good enough, but I had eaten better; and here it will not be amiss to say, that the best salmon in the world is caught in the Suir, a river that flows past the beautiful town of Clonmel in Ireland.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • Declan said: "We have a wide vessel, the Suir, and God will send us salt, for this child is destined to become holy and wonderful [in his works]."

    Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous

  • Now the place where the castle stands is not far from the Suir, i.e. on the south side of it and the place from which Declan cast the staff is beside a ford which is in the Suir or a stream which flows beside the monastery called Mag Laca [Molough] which the holy virgins, daughters of the king of Decies, have built in honour of God.

    Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous

  • He crossed Slieve Gua [Knockmaeldown] and over the Suir and arrived on the following morning at the place where Patrick was.

    Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous

  • CAHER (or CAHIR), a market-town of Co. Tipperary, Ireland, in the south parliamentary division, beautifully situated on the river Suir at the foot of the Galtee Mountains.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

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