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A film crew documents four Americans who plan to build and detonate a truck bomb in the U.S. [R]
Tue Apr 07 2:30 PM on Showtime [576]
Tue Apr 07 2:30 PM on Showtime Digital [574]
Sat Apr 11 12:00 PM on Showtime Showcase [580]
 

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an inland port borough and market town and a parish partly in the barony of SHELBURNE but chiefly in that of BANTRY county of WEXFORD and province of LEINSTER 19 1 2 miles W by N from Wexford and 70 3 4 S S W from Dublin on the road from Wexford to Waterford and on the eastern bank of the river of Ross sometimes called the Barrow containing 7523 inhabitants of which number 5011 are in the town and borough Colgan states that St Abban built a great monastery now called Rossmactreoin on the banks of the Barrow and that this monastery in process of time gave rise to a noble and ancient city formerly called Rossglas and subsequently Rossmactrium or Rossmactreoin the magnitude and age of which was demonstrated by the ruins and walls remaining in his time about 1620 Camden says that the town was founded by Isabella daughter of Strongbow and consort of William le Mareschal afterwards Earl of Pembroke who held it in right of his wife The charter granted to it by Roger Bigod in the reign of Edw I directs that the provost when elected should be presented to him and his heirs at the castle of Old Ross or in case of absence to their seneschal in the town of New Ross thus shewing the pre existence of the town It afterwards acquired the name of Rossponte or Rosspontum from the circumstance of a bridge having been built over the river here Its situation on a navigable river in the heart of a fertile country soon rendered it populous and wealthy the same circumstances exposed it to the predatory incursions of the neighbouring chieftains to defend themselves from which the townsmen in 1269 at which time they were grievously harassed by a feud between the Fitzmaurices and the De Burgos resolved to secure the town by a wall So anxious were they to accomplish this undertaking that not only did the whole of the male population work at it by turns in companies but many of the young women also aided in it to commemorate which a strong tower or gate called Maiden tower was erected eastward in the town for a prison exclusively for persons guilty of offences against females The walls enclosed a circuit of a mile and at that period the town could array for its defence 363 cross bow men 1200 longbow archers 3000 pikemen and 104 horsemen a number of fighting men nearly equal to its entire population at present In the reign of Edw I the town was laid under an interdict by the pope in consequence of the inhabitants having destroyed a house of the Crutched friars on account of the alleged profligacy of one of its members Another proof of its early importance may be adduced from the attempts made by the people of Waterford to deprive it of the privileges of a trading port The controversy which commenced so early as the reign of Hen III was finally decided in favour of Ross by a decree of the English court of Chancery in the reign of Edw III In 1469 the town was partially burned by Donald Fuscus then head of the Mac Murroughs or Kavanaghs and the inhabitants afterwards suffered so much from repeated occurrences of acts of lawless violence that in 1483 they procured an act of parliament empowering them to reprize themselves against robbers and further enacting that no person should Allenate his freehold in the town without the consent of the provost and council The latter provision leads to the inference that these acts of aggression were producing the effect of driving the wealthier and more respectable part of the population out of the town This inference is confirmed by the preamble of a charter of Rich III which describes the place as being so reduced by this cause to extreme poverty and misery as to be nearly depopulated Another charter allows them to treat and make truce with the Irish enemies and to sell them provisions as well in time of war as of peace In the war of 1641 the town which was then held for the Irish was besieged by the Duke of Ormonde who having attempted to storm it through a practicable breach was driven back with considerable loss and forced to raise the siege Immediately after the battle of Kilrush was fought in the neighbourhood in which the Duke obtained a signal victory and the Irish in their flight broke down the bridge of Ross to prevent his pursuit On the arrival of Cromwell in 1649 the Duke after having garrisoned Wexford threw himself into this town which he also supplied with the means of defence Cromwell having taken the former town invested Ross which notwithstanding the Duke s precautionary measures for its defence surrendered without resistance upon articles and its fortifications were immediately dismantled The gate though which his troops entered has since been called Three Bullet gate instead of its former name Bewley gate from the circumstance that three cannon shot fired against it was the signal for demanding a surrender the shot were found a few years after in the walls of the gateway and are in the possession of John Deane of Stokestown During the disturbances of 1798 the town was the scene of a most sanguinary conflict between the king s troops and the insurgents in which the latter after ten hours severe fighting during which they had possession of the greater part of the town for some time were ultimately defeated with great slaughter Lord Mountjoy who commanded the county of Dublin Militia was killed at the Three Bullet gate during the engagement Image Search Content inclusion




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