Brian O'Rourke
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Sir Brian O'Rourke was first king and then lord of West Bréifne in the west of Ireland from 1566 until his execution in 1591. He reigned during the later stages of the Tudor conquest of Ireland and hi
O'Rourke's Castle at Lough Gill.
Four Irish Wolfhounds were brought by O'Rourke as a gift for the Scottish monarch.
O'Rourke was convicted of "treason" and sentenced to death at Tyburn.
Tyburn
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Tyburn was a manor in London, Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone. Tyburn took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne. The name Ty
Brian O'Rourke
…If they thought good, let it be so". The trial proceeded and O'Rourke was convicted and sentenced to death. In November 1591, O'Rourke was drawn to Tyburn. On the scaffold Miler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel, sought the repentance of the condemned man's sins. In response, he was abused by O'Rourke with…
Toll house (1760 - 1829) serving Bayswater and Edgware turnpikes on the site of Tyburn Tree. From Paul Sandby's Trade Card
View by William Capon across the second site of Tyburn Gallows on Edgware Road near its junction with Bryanston Street, 1785
Stone marking the site of the Tyburn tree on the traffic island at the junction of Edgware Road, Bayswater Road and Oxford Street