Qualla: Sack of Cashel https://qualla.com/sack-of-cashel en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/sack-of-cashel-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sack of Cashel https://qualla.com/sack-of-cashel Sack of Cashel: Introduction https://qualla.com/sack-of-cashel/ Photo credit Charles Johnston, Public domain. The civilians ran for the Rock because the Rock had always been safe. For more than a thousand years it had been the seat of kings, a fortress, a cathedral - the great limestone island rising out of the Tipperary plain. When word came in September 1647 that Lord Inchiquin's Parliamentarian army was burning its way through the county, hundreds of Cashel townspeople packed up what they could carry and climbed the hill, certain that walls so old and so high would hold. By the next afternoon, witnesses counted the bodies in the churchyard piled five and six deep.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/sack-of-cashel-wp/gc66-sack-of-cashel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sack of Cashel: A Confederation Tearing Itself Apart https://qualla.com/sack-of-cashel/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. By 1647, the Irish Confederate Wars had been going on for six years, and the Catholic Confederation that ran most of Ireland was tearing itself apart over how to make peace with Charles I. One faction, led by the papal nuncio Rinuccini, wanted Ireland to become a Catholic kingdom...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/sack-of-cashel-wp/gc66-sack-of-cashel-a-confederation-tearing-itself-apart.mp3 0:06 2 full Sack of Cashel: The March on Cashel https://qualla.com/sack-of-cashel/ Photo credit Adareman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Inchiquin spent the summer of 1647 smashing Catholic strongholds in Limerick and Clare. In early September he took Cahir Castle, which gave him a base inside Tipperary. From there he moved north toward Cashel, an ecclesiastical and market town that mattered both economically and ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/sack-of-cashel-wp/gc66-sack-of-cashel-the-march-on-cashel.mp3 0:06 3 full Sack of Cashel: The Assault https://qualla.com/sack-of-cashel/ Photo credit Sean an Scuab, CC BY-SA 3.0. Inchiquin reached the Rock and gave the defenders one hour to surrender. They tried to negotiate; he refused. On the afternoon of 15 September his officers reminded their men of earlier Protestant deaths at Catholic hands, then sent in the attack. About 150 dismounted cavalry led...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/sack-of-cashel-wp/gc66-sack-of-cashel-the-assault.mp3 0:06 4 full Sack of Cashel: Inside the Cathedral https://qualla.com/sack-of-cashel/ Photo credit Speed Lancelot (1860-1931), Public domain. What followed was not a battle but something else. Most of the soldiers were dead. The Bishop and Mayor of Cashel survived only because they found a hidden place to shelter. A handful of women were spared after being stripped of their clothes; a few wealthy civilians were taken f...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/6/sack-of-cashel-wp/gc66-sack-of-cashel-inside-the-cathedral.mp3 0:06 5 full Sack of Cashel: Aftermath and Memory https://qualla.com/sack-of-cashel/ Photo credit Ruhrfisch, CC BY-SA 4.0. The sack at Cashel shocked Ireland in a way nothing in the previous six years had managed. It was the worst single atrocity since the war began in 1641, and because the Rock was one of the chief holy places of Catholic Ireland, it cut into a wound that was not just political. The...

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