Christopher St Lawrence, 10th Baron Howth
Christopher St Lawrence, 10th Baron Howth was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier of the Elizabethan and Jacobean era. His personal charm made him a favourite of two successive English monarchs, and he was also a soldier of great courage and some ability, who fought under the Earl of Essex and Lord Mountjoy during the Nine Years' War. However, his bitter quarrels with the Lord Deputy of Ireland, his feuds with other leading families of the Anglo-Irish Pale, and his suspected involvement in the conspiracy which led to the Flight of the Earls, damaged his reputation. He is best remembered for the legend that he was kidnapped by the "Pirate Queen" Granuaile when he was a small boy.
Howth Castle
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Charles Blount. 8th Baron Mountjoy
Sir Arthur Chichester: he had an extremely low opinion of Howth
Athy is a market town at the meeting of the River Barrow and the Grand Canal in south-west County Kildare, Ireland, 72 kilometres southwest of Dublin. A population of 11,035 made it the sixth largest town in Kildare and the 45th largest in the Republic of Ireland, a growth of 82% since the 2002 census.
River Barrow, Crom-a-Boo Bridge and White's Castle
Athy Town Hall
Duke Street
1903 Gordon Bennett Trophy. Athy. Alexander Winton in the Winton Bullet 2