Tag: Turnpike

• The Toll – Man’s Tale

  

  A Story of Old Dublin Some of you may have heard about the ‘Turnpike Roads’ that ran through Ireland until the middle of the nineteenth and they were always accompanied by a toll-bar, something similar to the modern toll-bars on the various motorways that fan out over Ireland. At one toll-bar on the western side […]

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  March 28, 2021

  Fiction, History, Ireland, Legend, Short Story, Update

  Aristocrats, Dublin, Eloping, Inheritance, Ireland, Tollkeeper, Turnpike