Hit the lofty heights

Knocklofty House may trigger a memory from the 1970’s.

In June 1974 it received national and worldwide attention when its then residents, Lord and Lady Donoughmore, were kidnapped by the IRA in an attempt to influence British policy in relation to the Northern Irish hunger strikes.

The people of nearby Clonmel came out in force to support the popular local couple and, in an unwanted reaction, the IRA drew an unprecedented amount of attention to its members countrywide.