By Declan Keenan For generations (from the mid-fourteenth up to the close of the sixteenth century) the Gaelicised Bourke septs of Mayo elected their chieftain, the MacWilliam Íochtair (the premier lord in Mayo), in the Gaelic manner at their adopted inauguration site of Rausakeera, in the barony of Kilmaine. Indeed, Rausakeera, a bivallate earthen fort ... Read more
