Widowed, evicted, raising two young boys, a violent temper - how the desperate life of Elizabeth Sugrue unfolded and she became Roscommon's executioner.
Today’s article focuses on a legendary Scottish monster called the Kelpie. So far as can be determined it was in the late 1700s when those words, “kelpies” and “water-horses,” first appeared in print. It’s a story that has its origins in the 1740s, however. That was when a renowned poet, William Collins, who died while. Read more »