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| GOWRAN, CO. KILKENNY.- The above is one of Kilkenny's most ancient towns, and was once the seat of the Fitzpatrick family, one of whose titles, in the modern peerage of Ireland, is derived from it. Grose, in his noted "Antiquities" says of it: "Gowran had a strong castle, which was attacked by Oliver Cromwell, and resolutely defended by Colonel Hammond, who was obliged to surrender, when Oliver ordered every officer but one to be shot, and the Catholic chaplain was hanged at the butcher's shambles. |
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