no that pub was in Castle Hill...later Mrs Mac Swedes and later again Ronnie Delaneys , on the corner of Mill Lane. I think the pub he died in was later Johnny Nails....( no reason to believe that just a hunch !) On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:49 PM, JJ Woods <woodsjj@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Is this the pub my grandfather owned in the early 1900s? > > J. J. > > > > On 21 February 2010 10:07, michael purcell <carlowmike@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The Carlow Sentinel, October 1847. > > Sudden death of a soldier. > > One of the soldiers of the 3rd Buffs, quartered in this town, while > dancing > > in a public house, > > belonging to a man named Parkes, in Coal-market, on Tuesday evening last, > > suddenly dropped > > on the floor, and on raising him it was found that life was extinct. The > > young man was about > > twenty four years of age, apparently strong and healthy, but had > dissipated > > habits. > > ======================================= > > Before you post a message to the IRL-CARLOW mailing list you must > subscribe > > to the List. Its FREE! > > --------------------------------------- > > To subscribe to the IRL-Carlow mailing list, send an email to > > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word "subscribe" (without the > > quotes) in the Subject box. No additional text is required. > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ======================================= > Before you post a message to the IRL-CARLOW mailing list you must subscribe > to the List. Its FREE! > --------------------------------------- > To subscribe to the IRL-Carlow mailing list, send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word "subscribe" (without the > quotes) in the Subject box. No additional text is required. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Michael, Is this the pub my grandfather owned in the early 1900s? J. J. On 21 February 2010 10:07, michael purcell <carlowmike@gmail.com> wrote: > The Carlow Sentinel, October 1847. > Sudden death of a soldier. > One of the soldiers of the 3rd Buffs, quartered in this town, while dancing > in a public house, > belonging to a man named Parkes, in Coal-market, on Tuesday evening last, > suddenly dropped > on the floor, and on raising him it was found that life was extinct. The > young man was about > twenty four years of age, apparently strong and healthy, but had dissipated > habits. > ======================================= > Before you post a message to the IRL-CARLOW mailing list you must subscribe > to the List. Its FREE! > --------------------------------------- > To subscribe to the IRL-Carlow mailing list, send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word "subscribe" (without the > quotes) in the Subject box. No additional text is required. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Than you Fran, the feedback is very much appreciated by us. At present I have a girl employed cataloguing the Pat Purcell Papers. Jean (who does not wish to be named !) types up some interesting articles and leaves them for me to post to the List , sometimes I may add a comment to explain background etc. mick On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:51 PM, frances heidel <fradel@comcast.net> wrote: > > Thanks so much, Michael for the History you provide to us. I read > Irish history every month at our LAOH meeting and I'm always > researching good history to share with my American LAOH sisters. > Fran Devine Heidel in PA, USA > ======================================= > Before you post a message to the IRL-CARLOW mailing list you must subscribe > to the List. Its FREE! > --------------------------------------- > To subscribe to the IRL-Carlow mailing list, send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word "subscribe" (without the > quotes) in the Subject box. No additional text is required. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

well done Cara, I see you managed to transcribe the record of the sponsors as well, all the effort will be very much appreciated, mick On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Michael Brennan < mb006r9209@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Morning Cara > > Thanks very very much for transcribing the Rathvilly Records: > http://www.igp-web.com/carlow/Baptism_Rathvilly_01.htm > > You are helping a lot of people out there with their research. > > > Kind Regards > > Michael Brennan > Carlow Website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/ > > My Laois Page: > http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mjbrennan/index.htm > ======================================= > Before you post a message to the IRL-CARLOW mailing list you must subscribe > to the List. Its FREE! > --------------------------------------- > To subscribe to the IRL-Carlow mailing list, send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word "subscribe" (without the > quotes) in the Subject box. No additional text is required. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Morning Cara Thanks very very much for transcribing the Rathvilly Records: http://www.igp-web.com/carlow/Baptism_Rathvilly_01.htm You are helping a lot of people out there with their research. Kind Regards Michael Brennan Carlow Website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/ My Laois Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mjbrennan/index.htm

Carlow Morning Post, 1818. Wexford Assizes. Thomas Call of Mucklow, and Thomas Call of Tomcoyle, were indicted for the murder at Little Limerick, of Nicholas Fanning and Edward Lennon, steward and labourer in the employment of Rev. Dr. Quinn. The prisoners were both young men, the eldest not more that twenty years of age. They were found guilty and sentenced to be hanged on Monday, and their bodies to be given to the Surgeon for dissection.

Carlow Morning Post, December 1818. Robert Ivers, Tullow Street, Carlow, Shopkeeper. IVERS Has a neatly finished and most convenient NEW HOUSE in Tullow Street, next door to Mr. John Warren's, with extensive rere Concerns, and a House with Gate-Entrance in Bridewell Lane. They will be Set together or separatley. The House is desirably situated for any kind of Business, and decidedly one of the best standing in Carlow.

The Carlow Sentinel, October 1847. Sudden death of a soldier. One of the soldiers of the 3rd Buffs, quartered in this town, while dancing in a public house, belonging to a man named Parkes, in Coal-market, on Tuesday evening last, suddenly dropped on the floor, and on raising him it was found that life was extinct. The young man was about twenty four years of age, apparently strong and healthy, but had dissipated habits.

In 1818, Rossmore Colliers bringing coal to sell in the Coal Market, Carlow, were required to pay a Toll to allow them to cross Graigue Bridge. This report records an incident when one "countryman collier" refused to pay the deputy collector , Dick Byrne, a battle ensued but I find it odd that it was Byrne who ended up in the Gaol ! Carlow Morning Post, March 1818. On Monday evening , Wellington Bridge, which divides the towns of Carlow and Graigue, exhibited a "Battle of Waterloo" in miniature !--- Dick Byrne, one of the deputy collectors of the Customs, who was sometime since discharged, for not being sufficiently "hard mouthed enough in swearing" at a trial at the Manor-Court, between Tolls and Customs ---being once more restored to the high official situation which he held ---commenced the action by seizing a collier, for an alleged "old debt" of three pence, incurred by having passed the bridge for free some day last week ---during the temporary absence of the collector !----. The countryman collier refused to pay , and was according to "Custom" knocked down ---gathering strength, however, from "his mother earth, " he arose and Dick Byrne was knocked down in turn !. Dick's wife, Mrs Byrne now appeared on the field, and gave considerable assistance to her husband as is duty bound .----- The collier was now "backed" by some of his own gang, and their assailants received the additional support of Dick's son, Mr Byrne, junior, with a few more of the "corps diplomatique". The affair now became general :--- The battle raged ---coats, belts, hats, caps, and wigs, flew about , in all directions !. Mr. Jackson, one of the Magistrates, having heard of the row, went immediately together with some constables, to the scene of the action; but was violently resisted, and assaulted, by Byrne the elder ---whom , at length, not without considerable difficulty , he succeeded in lodging in the Gaol safely for the night. It appears that Byrne was full of SPIRITS on this occasion. On this same memorable evening Mr. Farrell, the head collector, made a violent attack upon Benedict Hamilton, Esquire, Lord of the Manor of Carlow, at his own house, who was obliged to exhibit articles of the peace (a pistol ) against said Farrell.

Upon seeing the thousands that assembled in February 1922 to attend this I.R.A. review , Martin O'Neill ( Scorcher) commented, " the membership of the Irish Republican Army has increased two hundred-fold since the British soldiers left ", and indeed it had. In the following decades "membership" of the Old I.R. A. ( as the organisation became known ) would continue to increase. It has been said that in 1966 when commemorating the 1916 Rising , there was such a large turnout of the "survivors" of the General Post Office Garrison from 50 years before, that one wag remarked " the G.P.O. survivors is it, ! bejapers to hold that crowd it's Croke Park you'd want " The Review reported here was to be the last time the former comrades assembled in such large numbers in harmony and friendship. In the months following this Review the "Spilt" occurred and many of the volunteers faced and shot at each other during the War of Brothers. ( 28th June1922-----24th April 1923). Nationalist 18th Feb. 1922. Review of Volunteers. CARLOW BRIGADE AREA. On Sunday in glorious weather the above took place at the Polo Grounds, Browne's Hill, Carlow. >From about 10.30 the various contingents poured into the town from all parts of the Brigade Area in Wicklow, Carlow, Laois and Kildare accompanied by several bands. A special train was run from Borris , which conveyed Volunteers from the southern portions of the county. It was the first Sunday train run on this line for a very considerable time. The scene at Browne's Hill was a memorable one. Thousands of spectators who had travelled by motors, bicycles etc. , from all parts of the adjoining counties witnessed the review. The various battalions were formed up in several lines reaching the full length of the field. They presented a very smart military appearance which reflected the greatest credit on the various commandants. About 3.30 the lines were inspected, and afterwards to the strains of the Carlow Fianna Pipers, followed by the Boy Scouts, the several contingents reformed and marched into the town. Notwithstanding the huge gathering, which was undoubtedly the largest ever seen in Carlow, the utmost order prevailed, owing to the excellent arrangements which were carried out by the Irish Republican Police. The companies were dismissed by their officers at various points in the town. The following bands were present ; --Graiguecullen Flute and Drum Band, Carlow Fianna Pipers, Rathvilly Pipers and Clashganny Pipers.

Nationalist 18th Feb. 1922. FIRST ANNIVERSARY. Impressive scenes were witnessed in Carlow on Friday morning on the First anniversary of the death of Mr Padraig O' Toole who died in Ballykinlar Prison Camp , after a few months' internment, on the 9th February 1921. There was a large congregation present at the Mass in the Cathedral, which was offered up for the repose of his soul by the Rev John Killian, C.C. at 9 o'clock. After the Mass a procession was formed which wended its way to St. Mary's Cemetery. The following marched in the procession, headed by the Graiguecullen St. Fiacc's Band. The Carlow and Graiguecullen Companies of Volunteers, Carlow and Graiguecullen Fianna, Carlow Cumann na mBan, Carlow Fire Brigade (in uniform), representatives of the Carlow County Council, Carlow Urban Council, Carlow Board of Guardians, Carlow Trades Council, Carlow Transport Workers' Union, Carlow Town Tenants League. The Rosary was recited in Irish at the graveside by Mr Padraig Kane, who delivered a short and touching oration, after which three volleys were fired over the grave. The procession then reformed , and marched to Hay Market, where it was dismissed.

Hi all, I'm not sure if I mentioned before but i came across the diary of an ancestor, Thomas Bunbury of Kill, Co. Carlow, written between 1754 and his death in 1774. I've transcribed the complete diary which can be found here http://www.turtlebunbury.com/family/bunburyfamily_lisnavagh/bunburyfamily_lisnavagh_thomaskilldiary.html or a potted version (with background) here at http://www.turtlebunbury.com/family/bunburyfamily_lisnavagh/bunburyfamily_lisnavagh_thomasbunburyofkill.html ... In the diary, Thomas refers to a number of people with whom he has financial dealings. Some of these wee tenants, others employees and others perhaps just acquaintances. Among the names he mentions are: Ta. Chritchly, Fran. Harvey, Pat Whelan, Jemy Cloy, Sam Baxter, Maurice Baxter, Thomas Fleming, Mrs Jane Pierse, John Kelly, Mr Martin, Robert Snow, Jack Nowland, Murtagh Naile, Thomas Kennedy, Dunoghue, James Reilly, James Kenney , Mrs Shrigley, Rev Mr Enraght, Johnny Clery, Geo Dunbar, Lucas Jackson, Frank Thornhill, Robbin Jones, Jemmy Byrne, James Card, Samuel Card, John Hutchinson, Geo Wallace, Mr Nicholas Roche, Rich Brough, John Drumgold and Murtagh Neale (almost certainly a tenant as, in 1757, he paid ‘on account of his last Michelmas rent £61-16 & a half-penny’), Simon Mercer, Billy Lockwood, Stephen Nowlan, George and Lewis Burwell Martin, James Agar, Lemuel Schouldham Esq and Poley Molyneux. I hope this diary can be of help to some people ... needless to say, it was a fantastic find for me. (Thomas was the father of Benjamin Bunbury, the magistrate who made such an impact in Carlow in and around 1798). Best wishes, Turtle Turtle Bunbury www.turtlebunbury.com Old Fort, Tobinstown, Tullow, Co. Carlow, Ireland Mob: + 353 - (0) 87 - 6453 486 Skype: turtle1847 Turtle Bunbury is a best-selling author and travel writer based in Ireland. He will be speaking at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco on Monday 15th February 2010. His subject will be 'Around the World in 1847 - An Irish Perspective'. Turtle's acclaimed 'Your History in a Book' venture offers an innovative way to transform your family history into a compelling read. Turtle's seventh book, Vanishing Ireland - Further Chronicles of a Disappearing World, with photographer James Fennell, was the 5th biggest selling hardback - and the top-selling Picture Book - in Ireland's non-fiction charts over Christmas 2009.

Sir Dudley St Leger Hill 1787 - 1851 a full time career soldier: http://www.igp-web.com/carlow/Sir_Dudley_St_Leger_Hill.htm This story runs to seven pages and was sent in by Rodney Kerr. Regards Michael Brennan Carlow Website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/ My Laois Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mjbrennan/index.htm

Daniel Dowling from Carlow who rode in famous British Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava on Oct 25th. 1854: http://www.igp-web.com/carlow/Daniel_Dowling.htm Regards Michael Brennan Carlow Website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/ My Laois Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mjbrennan/index.htm

Where would you come across a diary. I should come visit YOU so I could be shown how to stumble upon these wonderful items from the past. Fran Devine Heidel

For anyone who may have missed the current and very interesting subject of 1922 period in Carlow kindly provided by Michael Purcell, I have put all the documents in one location along with some others which are scattered around the website: http://www.igp-web.com/carlow/Carlow_1922_index.htm Regards Michael Brennan Carlow Website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/ My Laois Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mjbrennan/index.htm

Denis William Pack-Beresford married Annette Clayton-Browne in 1863 in Carlow, A Fenian Rising took place in 1867. I believe the event recorded below dates from circa 1868. It does appear that the "Catholic Elector's Son" took part in the "jigs and reels" and had a sup of the wines and whiskies on offer, which may account for his " bloodsheding and crutches throwing" rhetoric regarding the Fenagh tenantry if they should be called upon to fight for His Nibs . ( this calls to mind a comment made to me by my Uncle Tom regarding a well known I.R.A. leader " sure he would fight for Ireland to the last drop of everyone else's blood" ) Pictures of the Pack-Beresford / Browne-Clayton wedding in 1863 appear elsewhere on this Carlow site. "little Phil" was the family Irish Wolfhound. Undated handbill in the Pat Purcell Papers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~THE BEST WAY TO " STAMP OUT" FENIANISM IN IRELAND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ During the last seven centuries here in Ireland seldom has there been witnessed such a scene as that which presented itself in the laurel-wreathed halls of Fenagh House, as the clock struck twelve at night, to seal forever the fate of the old Fenian year, while upwards of thirty couples in full guise, dancing an Irish jig under the mistletoe, smiled "a happy new year" to each other, as well as to the true Irish lady to whose princely hospitality they were indebted for the night's amusement. Mrs Annette Carloine Clayton-Browne-Pack-Beresford , whose name is a household word amongst the peasantry for miles around the base of Mount Leinster, conceived the idea of giving a ball on the last night of the old year, not however , to the Ladies and Gentlemen of the county,but to the respectable farmer's sons and daughters in her own immediate neighbourhood, intermixed with a sprinkling of the villagers , and accordingly directed by Mr. Simpson, who stands at the head of her household staff to issue invitations to the number of about one hundred. About nine o'clock the party began to assemble and it did not break up until five in the morning. Never before did a happier party meet upon the plains of Leinster. Catholic and Protestant danced side by side, united in the closest bond of friendship; never before did such a party meet with such attention, courtesy, kindness, and hospitality in the halls of a resident gentleman -- ----in the Irish home of an Irish prince . The choicest wines, the oldest whiskies --every luxury was there in profusion. The supper was such as a party of princes might sit down to ; and Mr Simpson, Mrs White and Miss Hyland aided by Mr Palmer, Mr Hitchman, and all the rest of Captain Beresford's household staff spared no pains to make the party comfortable and happy. In fact the only grievance the sons and daughters of Captain Beresford's tenantry laboured under on the first day of the new year after giving the old year a decent send-off was having "stamped out" Fenianism" for ever in the County Carlow to the tune of a real Irish jig --the grievance they laboured under as they separated for their respective homes in the morning was the great difficulty they were placed in as to whether they are more indebted to the lady who spread such a costly banquet before them , or to the extraordinary kindness and attention they received during the night from all the members of her household staff. LETTER OF THANKS : From, " A CATHOLIC ELECTOR'S SON" THIS , SIR, I consider should be ever memorable in the annals of the County Carlow. I am not one of those who would wish to attach any importance to an isolated fact. But when I see in that happy group the grand result of Captain Beresford's labours for a number of years ; when I see all classes united in comfort and happiness around him, when I find the peasantry well-housed, well-fed and warmly clothed, his baths thrown open, his doors and windows neither bolted nor barred, while neither a red coat , nor a policeman come within sight -- and this at a time when the country was thought to be on the eve of an insurrection -- at a time when the gentry in other parts of Ireland were crying out for armies to defend them, afraid of their own shadows or rather of their guilty conscience within. When I see Captain and Mrs Beresford retiring to rest in their Irish home at Fenagh House after smiling upon their subjects and not even placing little Phil as a sentinel without to ward off the much dreaded Fenian host. I say sir, when I find all these circumstances united at such a time and in such a place, Captain Pack-Beresford has not laboured in vain. He has lived to reap the fruit of his labours . There is a gentleman who had confidence in the people; nor shall he ever find that confidence betrayed. Captain and Mrs Pack-Beresford have made themselves known to the people by their unremitting kindness and attention to them. The people will always know them. Not a man within miles round who would not shed the last drop of his life's blood in their defence in the event of a Fenian "rising" . They require none of the Queen's Life Guards to protect them, because they are enshrined in the hearts of the people. Even the old men and women would abandon their crutches to fight for them ; and so long as Mrs Beresford wishes to send the Captain into Parliament, so long he shall go there, and no man dare oppose him in the county Carlow. God Save Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen, and Mr and Mrs Pack-Beresford of Fenagh House, Carlow.

Mr John Byrne from Tinryland, Carlow, writes to the Carlow Vindicator in 1892 to complain of the taking of his farm by "Hanging-Gale Beresford" . John and his sister had only been evicted when the homeplace and all his improvements and those of his forefathers, were taken over by a man described by John as a "landgrabber" without a penny compensation, and the time selected for the eviction was during "Holy Week" 1892. Carlow Vindicator. Letter to the Editor. Tinryland, April 30th, 1892. LANDGRABBING. Dear Sir, --I wish through the medium of your journal to expose a case of the most barefaced landgrabbing , which I am sure will meet with the condemnation it deserves from all honest men. I was evicted from my home , which was in the possession of my family for generations, by my landlord . Mr Denis.R. Beresford, for non-payment of a rent which must be admitted to was exorbitant even by his own valuer. He scarcely allowed the clay to settle over his mother's grave when he called in the services of Messrs Moore, Mack and Ryan and Watters (the latter acting as emergency man ), and turned myself and my sister out on the road on a cold February morning. We were not well out when J---?----( name published in report but I will not publish it in this transcript ) comes and takes possession of all my improvements and those of my forefathers , without one penny compensation to me --the time selected by this pious Catholic for doing so being Holy Week. The rent of the farm (if you can call it such ) is £12 yearly, the area six acres, including a road all around it about thirty perches. This , with waste of rocks, leaves about five acres tillage land. So you see it was the house and premises built by my predecessors, without one penny from the landlord, and on which I expended during the last ten years over £100, which were coveted. -- -I remain yours, John Byrne.

Thanks so much, Michael for the History you provide to us. I read Irish history every month at our LAOH meeting and I'm always researching good history to share with my American LAOH sisters. Fran Devine Heidel in PA, USA

Nationalist 1922. Dr. McKenna submitted the following report -- Since the last meeting of the Joint Committee of Management of Carlow Mental Hospital, ten patients have been admitted, viz., four from County Kildare and sex from County Carlow. Four patients have been discharged and six patients have died. The number resident to-day are : males 218 ; females 244 ; total 462. The health of the inmates and general condition of the institution continue satisfactory. Dr. Greene was unable to attend the meeting as he had a cold.