{"id":4683,"date":"2020-05-08T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2020-05-09T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T10:49:39","slug":"ruins-of-ballymacool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ruins-of-ballymacool\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruins of Ballymacool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those ruins stand, charred by fire<br \/>\nNot set by a rebels hand<br \/>\nThough many of it&#8217;s type out to the flame<\/p>\n<p>By tenants ire<br \/>\nAnger pent, venting planned<br \/>\nNo, that was not to blame.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4684\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4684\" src=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BALLYMAC2.jpg\" alt=\"Ballymacool House, home of the Boyd Family\" width=\"768\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BALLYMAC2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BALLYMAC2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BALLYMAC2-700x439.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BALLYMAC2-332x208.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Home of poetess Mary Rosalie Boyd and her soldier brother John Dopping Boyd, the house survived the War of Independence and Civil War.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mammon, and what it inspires:<br \/>\nIs said to be how this home was burned!<br \/>\nOnce imposing, always welcoming&#8230;<br \/>\nMansion to rubble was turned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those ruins stand, charred by fire Not set by a rebels hand Though many of it&#8217;s type out to the flame By tenants ire Anger pent, venting planned No, that was not to blame. Mammon, and what it inspires: Is said to be how this home was burned! Once imposing, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,256,1],"tags":[3989,4290,3618,3990,4289],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-irish-heritage","category-uncategorized","tag-ballymacool","tag-big-house","tag-john-dopping-boyd","tag-letterkenny","tag-mary-rosalie-boyd","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1dx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3694,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/this-far-and-no-farther\/","url_meta":{"origin":4683,"position":0},"title":"This Far and No Farther","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd April 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"World War One was a savage conflict, and long before the invention and application of Blitzkrieg the Germans were \"masters of shell and attack\" tactics, and were within four miles of Ypres when they faced two small but signifigant obstacles, a tiny remnand of the Welsh Borderers, who were relieved\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;North Longford&quot;","block_context":{"text":"North Longford","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/north-longford\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Second Battalion of the Worcesters did not know that the Welsh were still left, and were delighted and surprised to find them in the Chateau, before they advanced and retook the village under the leadership of John Dopping Boyd ","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Meeting-of-the-2nd-Worcestershire-with-1st-South-Wales-Borderers-in-the-grounds-of-Chateau-painting-by-J-P-Beadle.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Meeting-of-the-2nd-Worcestershire-with-1st-South-Wales-Borderers-in-the-grounds-of-Chateau-painting-by-J-P-Beadle.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Meeting-of-the-2nd-Worcestershire-with-1st-South-Wales-Borderers-in-the-grounds-of-Chateau-painting-by-J-P-Beadle.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3718,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/gheluvelt\/","url_meta":{"origin":4683,"position":1},"title":"Gheluvelt","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th May 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the quirks behind Gheluvelt was not alone was our Donegal freind of Longford extraction in the field, but it was the battle that gave the war legs to a certain Adolf Hitler, an Austrian to have a global prominence. 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