Crossword-Solution: CASTLEISLAND 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The only place where any opposition was exhibited was in Castleisland, whence the Lombard family originally sprang; and there the lighted tar-barrels, which had been placed on the ruins of the old castle, were extinguished, to avoid unpleasant contact with a gang of rowdy roughs.

About 1820 the district around Castleisland was divided into three parishes--Castleisland, Ballincushlane, and Killeentierna--the joint revenues of which were eighteen hundred a year.

There was a schoolmaster near Castleisland, who died of sparing the rod but not sparing the potation.

Personally, I tried working coal-pits near Castleisland for three months, and silver lead was worked for six months near Tralee by a company which was more successful in working its own way with the bankruptcy court.

Jim from Castleisland meeting Mick from Glenbeigh, asks:-- 'Well, Mick, an' how are ye getting on?' 'Illigant, glory be to the Saints.' 'How's that, Mick? Sure, prices is low.' 'True for you, Jim, prices is low; but what we _has_ we _has_, for we pays nobody.' And to that I will add another observation.