Welcome to the Geashill History webpage. We hope that you find the 32 articles detailed below interesting. They span a timeframe of over a thousand years of local history. Note that the webpage is subdivided into four sections as follows,

• Gaelic Clans & Normans

• Early Digby Estate 1619-1850

• Late Digby Estate 1850-1912

• War of independence & Civil War

 

All the articles have a date in the top left corner and are listed in chronological order. If you read all of them together in series, they recount the history of the Geashill district.

A special thanks to the eight local historians who contributed their knowledge to the articles. Sources and the names of people who contributed are given at the bottom of each article.

 

Each article has a star rating as follows,

★    Local News

★★  County Offaly News

★★★  Irish National News