shadesandshadows:   The Evil Eye is carved into the stone walls of Kilkea Castle built in 1180 on the Athy-Tullow road in Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland.   Gerald, the 11th Earl of Kildare visited the continent and studied alchemy, leading to the suspicion by his neighbors that he possessed magic powers. The Earl was master at Kilkea Castle and known as the Wizard Earl of Kildare. The devil, supposedly seen on the grounds of Kilkea during his time, was summoned by him at the request of his wife.   And The Evil Eye may have worked. When Cromwell sacked the abbeys and castles of Ireland, he bypassed Kilkea.   Scanned by Shades and Shadows from the booklet Kilkea Castle: A History by P.N.N. Synnott, president of the Kildare Archaeological Society and printed in 1973 in the Republic of Ireland by Mount Offaly Press.

shadesandshadows:

  The Evil Eye is carved into the stone walls of Kilkea Castle built in 1180 on the Athy-Tullow road in Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland.

  Gerald, the 11th Earl of Kildare visited the continent and studied alchemy, leading to the suspicion by his neighbors that he possessed magic powers. The Earl was master at Kilkea Castle and known as the Wizard Earl of Kildare. The devil, supposedly seen on the grounds of Kilkea during his time, was summoned by him at the request of his wife.

  And The Evil Eye may have worked. When Cromwell sacked the abbeys and castles of Ireland, he bypassed Kilkea.

  Scanned by Shades and Shadows from the booklet Kilkea Castle: A History by P.N.N. Synnott, president of the Kildare Archaeological Society and printed in 1973 in the Republic of Ireland by Mount Offaly Press.