European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wishing Stone is next Stop after kissing Stone is highest Point of the it is situated near the City of the Blarney Stone As viewed from by Brendan staff writer it has been said that if you kiss Tho Blarney Stone you will be immediately and forever thereafter endowed with the gift of irresistible having the gift of gab is a state or condition which has obvious you might be Able to talk the traffic cop out of giving you a ticket for on the other perhaps he kissed the Blarney Stone before you did and then you probably will wind up with a ticket issued on the basis of the cops senior association with the famous kissing the Blarney is somewhat of an athletic feat in just climbing the 120 Steps from the ground to the battlements of the old Castle where the Stone is located is enough to take the wind out of an average to get into kissing the Kisser has to lie Flat on his or her Back and lean backwards Over an 83foot drop while holding on to an Iron there is a helpful attendant nearby ready to grab in Case you let theres Only been one person lost try ing to kiss the Blarney he they Tell me the poor fellow was smashed to but that was a Long time before my he said with a twinkle in his the Blarney Stone is a piece of Lime Stone built into the battlement of Blarney just a few Miles outside of the Southern Irish City of a Good Many legends have grown up around the rite of kissing the according to one Story the Stone was once known As Jacobs Pillow and is supposed to have been brought to Ireland from the holy land during one of the another yarn relates that after the Battle of the scottish Leader Robert Bruce gave the Stone to the head of the Irish clan who owned Blarney and the surrounding in gratitude for help rendered against the still another Story credits the chief of the Maccarthy tribe with saving a Damsel from drowning in a River like Many a Man before and Maccarthy Learned in time that his Damsel in distress was nothing More than an old in a burst of generosity she is alleged to have told Maccarthy about the magic Stone in the Castle which would enable him to beat his chops for hours if Only he would kiss it chances said the old Corkman who told this that she just wanted him to break his fool apparently this original gift of Blarney bestowed on an Early Maccarthy must have followed Down to his England Queen Elizabeth i is credited with putting the word meaning wheedling into the the reigning head of clan Maccarthy in Elizabeths Day swore a Tongue Incheck oath of loyalty to the English Queen and made promises and agreements which he apparently never had any intention of living up he Pretari rated and pro photos by Lloyd Burguss delayed and evaded on his commitments until Elizabeth finally said of her Loyal Baron of Blarney what he says he does not it is the usual Blarney reputed to be a Man who could talk the noose from off his head Maccarthy was apparently Able to save the family Fortune for at least another the Maccarthy held out successfully against the hated but anally the magic of the Blarney Stone left them and in 1646 they could no longer talk themselves out of capitulation to English Blarney Castle and surrounding owned by the Maccarthy since they were Kings of Munster and with a history dating Back to the 10th passed from the by forfeiture in because of do Nantes Maccarthy adherence to the exiled King James the19th Century Irish Francis had fatties his famous literacy say this of the Blarney t there is a Stone that whoever of be never misses to grow tis if May clamber to a ladies or become a member of a Clever spotter hell sure turn an to be let alone dont Hope to hinder or to be Wilder Hes a Pilgrim from the Blarney kiss the 1958 the stars and stripes