One of the largest and most complete collections of 17th century harp music is the work of Turlough O ' Carolan, a blind, itinerant Irish harper and composer.

The last surviving Silurian in the episode, however, is killed by Turlough, leaving the Doctor despondent.

" Planxty " is a word used by the classic harper Turlough O ' Carolan in many of his works, and is believed to denote a tribute to a particular person: " Planxty Irwin ", for example, would be in honor of Colonel John Irwin of Sligo.

Turlough O ' Carolan, also known as Turlough Carolan, (; ) ( 167025 March 1738 ) was a blind early Irish harper, composer and singer whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition.

As Tegan and the Doctor return to the TARDIS, the Black Guardian tells Turlough that this is his last chance to kill the Doctor ...

Mark Strickson ( born 6 April 1959 ) is a British TV producer and actor best known for his acting role as the character of Vislor Turlough on the television series Doctor Who.

Turlough Carolan ( 1670 – 1738 ) is the best known of those harpists, and over 200 of his compositions are known.

Through such traditional musicians as Turlough O ' Carolan ( who died in 1738 and is often lauded as " the last of the bards ") and countless of his less-known or anonymous colleagues, the musical tradition of the fili has made its way to contemporary ears via artists such as Planxty, The Chieftains, and The Dubliners.

Turlough Hill (), also known as Tomaneena (), is a high mountain in County Wicklow in Ireland and site of Ireland's only pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant.

The historian Liam Price recorded that the mountain was known locally as Tomaneena ; Turlough Hill is the name given to it by the ESB when they surveyed the site for the pumped-storage scheme.

The Turlough Hill power station is owned and operated by the Electricity Supply Board ( ESB ).

It is also reputed to have been the home of Turlough Carolan, the harpist and composer when he came to Carrick as a boy with his family from Nobber, Co. Meath in 1684.

It is located just outside Turlough Village, on the N5 eight kilometres east of Castlebar, in County Mayo, and was opened in 2001.

While unconscious, Turlough is contacted by the Black Guardian, who seeks to kill the Doctor for his interference in acquiring The Key to Time.

The Black Guardian offers Turlough passage off Earth if he kills the Doctor, to which Turlough agrees, and is given a communication device through which the Black Guardian gives him orders.

Materialising aboard the ship, they find a transmat capsule as the source of interference that is trapping the TARDIS, and are soon joined by Turlough, following the Black Guardian's orders.

Turlough is rescued by the Buccaneer, the pirate ship commanded by Captain Wrack.

The Doctor believes that Turlough is trying to prove himself trustworthy by stopping Wrack.

As Turlough helped the Doctor bring the ship in, he is entitled to a portion of the prize.

Rudhraighe's second eldest sibling, a daughter whose name is unknown, is believed to have married a son of Turlough Luineach O ' Neill sometime before or during 1579.

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A shortlist of three proposals was drawn up by O ' Riordan: an artificial upper reservoir at the summit of Tonduff mountain with an artificial lower reservoir in the Glencree valley ; an upper reservoir using Lough Ouler, a natural corrie lake near the summit of Tonelagee mountain, with an artificial lower reservoir in the Glenmacnass valley ; and an artificial upper reservoir at Turlough Hill with Lough Nahanagan as lower reservoir.

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Within five miles of the village are The Burren Perfumery, Caherconnell Stone Fort, Gleann Ciosog ( Gaelic Athletic Association pitch for the local football team Michael Cusacks ), Poulnabrone dolmen, a Turlough ( disappearing lake ) and limestone scenery.

* Turlough ( lake )

* Turlough ( lake ) disappearing lake found mostly in limestone areas of Ireland

Famed harpist Turlough O ' Carolan is buried at Kilronan, three miles ( 5 km ) to the north of the lake.

** Turlough Luineach O ' Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone ( b. c. 1530 )

* March 25 – Turlough O ' Carolan, Irish harper and composer ( b. 1670 )

** Turlough Luineach O ' Neill, Irish chieftain of Tyrone ( d. 1595 )

Turlough was a man of evil reputation who had already committed many dreadful crimes against his own kith and kin and against the Irish people at large.

Objections to the lines, planned to run from Turlough Hill to the village of Hollywood, came from several quarters, including Bord Fáilte, the Irish tourist board.

Now living in the USA, he has been honored by President McAleese for his recording of the Complete Works of Turlough O ' Carolan, In 2008 he was a recipient of the Top 100 award from Irish America Magazine.

The album spawned two somewhat beatlesque airplay hits-Z twarzą Marilyn Monroe (" With a Face Like ...") and Peggy Brown, the latter being a cover version of a fellow Mysłowice rock band, with lyrics originally by the Irish " national bard " Turlough O ' Carolan ( in a translation by the Polish lyricist and translator Ernest Bryll ).

* Turlough Ó Carolan ( 1670 – 1738 ) Irish harper

In 1987 he received his start in higher level football with Irish club Turlough O ' Connor's Dundalk.

Tracing their origin to 1266, the MacDermots Roe ( MacDiarmata Ruadh ) of Ireland served as Biatachs General of the Kingdom of Connacht and were the principal patrons of the Irish composer Turlough Carolan, 1670-1738.

The MacDermots Roe were the principle patrons of the Irish composer Turlough Carolan.

The red-brown fifty pound note had a portrait of Turlough O ' Carolan, the blind Irish harper and composer, with the background from Timbrell.

Carew called up fresh reinforcements, which he placed under the leadership of Turlough Roe MacMahon, who lived at Colmanstown castle, County Clare, almost opposite Glin.

:: The second assault also failed, but Turlough was determined to carry it through, for he hated with a hatred which evil men are known to feel towards those they have mortally injured.

Since 2004, Turlough Hill has been the Hydro Control Centre ( HCC ) for the entire ESB hydroelectric portfolio, which comprises 19 generators in total.

She first appears in the Fifth Doctor serial Planet of Fire, in which she encounters the Doctor and Turlough on the island of Lanzarote.

Although extremely powerful, the Guardians apparently cannot be seen to act directly, which is why they can only affect things through agents such as Turlough and the Doctor.

Despite this, some of the books broke from the continuity of the series, particularly Crisis in Space which features Vislor Turlough, even though he did not travel with the Sixth Doctor.

With Stien and Lt. Mercer he heads to the station lab, leaving Tegan and Turlough in the TARDIS, which he has surreptitiously programmed on time delay to return them to the warehouse.

They flee to a secret base in the mountains which is filled with seismological apparatus and which the Doctor and Turlough stumble across.

Sheltered by that gable is the vault of the McDermott Roes, in which Turlough O ' Carolan was interred in 1738.

The Guardian next appeared briefly during Enlightenment, the conclusion of the Black Guardian Trilogy, a story arc in which the evil Guardian attempted to force Turlough to kill the Doctor.

" Rory, the son of Turlough O ' Conor, King of Connaught, died of the plague on the night of St. Catherine's festival, after reigning sixteen years and three months as king of all Connaught, as the poet Maoilin O ' Mulconry testifies in the poem which enumerates the kings of Ireland :"

After further adventures in which the Doctor re-encountered old foes, including the Silurians and the Sea Devils, both Tegan and Turlough left the TARDIS.