Day 6 - Kilmallock







Hi, I'm Max, and I am a junior. I am very excited about this trip mainly because I have never left North America. Also as a side benefit I get to learn about the Vikings. Nothing about the Vikings particularly interests me but I just like learning things. Especially related to history. I have just always felt that learning about history is like listening to a story.




Today we took a tour of Kilmallock, a small town near Limerick. "Kil" means "church" and "Mallock" was a cleric who was given the title of saint. This of course being where the town name comes from.




Kilmallock had a lot of history some of which involved the Vikings. For example a lot of fighting took place between the Vikings from Limerick and the Vikings from Waterford in this town. There was a lot of violence like that here. For example, a man named Humphrey Gilbert, an English knight, once had 50 enemy soldiers who were defending the town decapitated in the street. He then hung 20 of their heads from the cross in the center of town. The rest of the heads he put on spears and made a path with them leading to his tent. Violence is not all that this town was though. It also had very good economics. Kilmallock, a medieval crossroads, thrived on tolls on those who passed through the town as well as goods and using the river. In this town we got to see many medieval structures such as King John’s Tower. King John was never actually there nor was the tower related to him. It is called this because it was called The King's Tower and it is on John Street.


Below are the original window frame in Kilmallock Church, and the restored window in Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Kilmallock, as well as an alcove for a family shrine in Kilmallock Church.  



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