Cornelius was a landowner in the 1800s also a solicitor and city counsellor. He was very liberal for his time, believing that pulling people out of poverty by paying them a living wage was also beneficial to society as a whole. He also charged a fee for people to visit the Cliffs of Moher and redistributed those funds back into the community.
The tower at the Cliffs of Moher he built as an observation tower for people to come and see the Cliffs in all their glory.
His grave site is close to St Brigette’s Well. These Wells are dotted all over County Claire and were put in place at the time of Monasteries and St Patrick. St Brigette was the female equivalent to St Partrick, converting people. The Wells themselves had different healing properties to cure the sick. I am curious why this one is so close to a cemetery….just not sure how effective they really were.
The world around me 