Sorry I was thinking of Kildare, where I have ancestors as well. --- On Mon, 3/1/10, Tom LaPorte <tlaporte@mts.net> wrote: From: Tom LaPorte <tlaporte@mts.net> Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] Fast and Abstinence !. To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 8:00 PM I definitely don't want to be the start of any anti-religious tirade on any faith.  That's not the purpose of this forum but I think that what we can learn from records like this is that neither religion had any monopoly on power grasping, evil intentions or saintly behaviour. It doesn't seem to me very likely that the workhouse chaplain was on the saintly side.  That's all. This is a new notion to me that Carlow did not suffer greatly from the potato famine.  Does anyone have any Carlow-specific information about that? >From what I understood the workhouse in Carlow was packed full for some reason. Tom -----Original Message----- From: irl-carlow-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-carlow-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Brian Walsh Sent: 01 March 2010 18:03 To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] Fast and Abstinence !. Tom, Oopsies, lost the last one.  I remember as a child being told to abstain on Good Friday and Ash Wednesday, and we did as a family and a school. My wife and I still observe the rules, but we are not saints. >From what I have learned, Carlow was not touched by the potato famine as other counties because they grew beets instead of potatoes. I could be wrong about this. I am sure that most priests were pious, and observed the Lenten way. I doubt the workhouse chaplain was a fraud, but he could have been. Brian d 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