The Jobstown House- since it was The Red Cow- 1717
The Jobstown Inn- Since it was The Red Cow (1717) “On a night in December in 1717 a party of O’ Byrnes pitched their quarters in an Inn called The Red Cow. The premises nestled where the coach road, by the base of Tallaght Hill, winds to Blessington. Attacked by the military, the besieged fought for twelve hours. After wounding several soldiers, they surrendered only when powder and ball were spent”. (Irish Independent,10-06-1924) This must surely be one of the earliest and most intriguing references we have, to what is now the Jobstown House, in 1717- The Red Cow. Who knew? Regrettably the Irish Independent does not tell us on what authority this is based, other than a 'Dublin broadside' or pamphlet. There was no doubt, a lot of porter or Scáiltín spilled in the roadhouse of Jobstown between the O’ Byrnes pitching their quarters in 1717 and “Climbing Jack” visiting for his supper in the year of the famine, 1847. There was little sign of famine