Turtle and readers, we are missing a file of approx.100 Bunbury papers, dating back to 1600s, about 40 of them have been transcribed and posted on this site, if any reader should learn where they now are please let me know, mick. On 20 August 2013 12:51, Turtle Bunbury (History) <turtlehistory@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks for this Michael. Hopefully see you over the course of Carlow 800 > shenanigans. > > > > > > On 19 Aug 2013, at 11:06, Michael Purcell wrote: > > > Carlow General Quarter Sessions held at Carlow Court House, Burrin Street > > on the 6th day of October 1796. > > A Kallender of Prisoners left in the custody of Philip Newton, Esquire. > > High Sheriff of Carlow County until they perform the Rules and pay the > fees > > respectively annexed to their names. > > Edward Byrne who was found guilty at the last Sessions on two Indictments > > fined two marks and to give Security to keep the Peace for seven years. > > 1pound, 15shillings and 3pence. > > The said Edward Byrne for the 2nd Indictment 1pound, 12 shilling and > 9pence. > > John Rourke who was found guilty of an assault fined one mark and to be > > discharged, he having performed the other part of the Rule against him. > > 13shillings and 4pence. > > Thomas Deer who was found guilty of two assaults to be imprisoned for a > > fortnight, fined six pence and to give Security before a Magistrate to > be > > of the Peace. 1pound. 7shillings and 9pence. > > Received a true Copy of this Kallender, ( signed ) John [ ? ], Gaoler at > > Carlow Gaol. [Jailer at Carlow Jail ] > > (signed ) Benjamin Bunbury, One of the Magistrates of the Peace for > Carlow > > County appointed by our Majesty Lord George, King, Defender of the Faith > > and so Forth. > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

OMG I hope they are not the original documents. Any idea how they could have been mislaid ? On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Michael Purcell <carlowmike@gmail.com>wrote: > Turtle and readers, we are missing a file of approx.100 Bunbury papers, > dating back to 1600s, about 40 of them have been transcribed and posted on > this site, if any reader should learn where they now are please let me > know, mick. > > > On 20 August 2013 12:51, Turtle Bunbury (History) > <turtlehistory@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Thanks for this Michael. Hopefully see you over the course of Carlow 800 > > shenanigans. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 19 Aug 2013, at 11:06, Michael Purcell wrote: > > > > > Carlow General Quarter Sessions held at Carlow Court House, Burrin > Street > > > on the 6th day of October 1796. > > > A Kallender of Prisoners left in the custody of Philip Newton, Esquire. > > > High Sheriff of Carlow County until they perform the Rules and pay the > > fees > > > respectively annexed to their names. > > > Edward Byrne who was found guilty at the last Sessions on two > Indictments > > > fined two marks and to give Security to keep the Peace for seven years. > > > 1pound, 15shillings and 3pence. > > > The said Edward Byrne for the 2nd Indictment 1pound, 12 shilling and > > 9pence. > > > John Rourke who was found guilty of an assault fined one mark and to be > > > discharged, he having performed the other part of the Rule against him. > > > 13shillings and 4pence. > > > Thomas Deer who was found guilty of two assaults to be imprisoned for a > > > fortnight, fined six pence and to give Security before a Magistrate to > > be > > > of the Peace. 1pound. 7shillings and 9pence. > > > Received a true Copy of this Kallender, ( signed ) John [ ? ], Gaoler > at > > > Carlow Gaol. [Jailer at Carlow Jail ] > > > (signed ) Benjamin Bunbury, One of the Magistrates of the Peace for > > Carlow > > > County appointed by our Majesty Lord George, King, Defender of the > Faith > > > and so Forth. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > 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 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

That doesn't sound great Mick, I will of course keep both eyes and ears on the look out. Turtle Bunbury

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 Mob: + 353 (0) 87 6453 486 Office: +353 (0) 5991 80559 Skype: turtle1847 www.facebook.com/turtle.bunbury On 20 Aug 2013, at 17:16, Michael Purcell wrote: > Turtle and readers, we are missing a file of approx.100 Bunbury papers, > dating back to 1600s, about 40 of them have been transcribed and posted on > this site, if any reader should learn where they now are please let me > know, mick. > > > On 20 August 2013 12:51, Turtle Bunbury (History) > <turtlehistory@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thanks for this Michael. Hopefully see you over the course of Carlow 800 >> shenanigans. >> >> >> >> >> >> On 19 Aug 2013, at 11:06, Michael Purcell wrote: >> >>> Carlow General Quarter Sessions held at Carlow Court House, Burrin Street >>> on the 6th day of October 1796. >>> A Kallender of Prisoners left in the custody of Philip Newton, Esquire. >>> High Sheriff of Carlow County until they perform the Rules and pay the >> fees >>> respectively annexed to their names. >>> Edward Byrne who was found guilty at the last Sessions on two Indictments >>> fined two marks and to give Security to keep the Peace for seven years. >>> 1pound, 15shillings and 3pence. >>> The said Edward Byrne for the 2nd Indictment 1pound, 12 shilling and >> 9pence. >>> John Rourke who was found guilty of an assault fined one mark and to be >>> discharged, he having performed the other part of the Rule against him. >>> 13shillings and 4pence. >>> Thomas Deer who was found guilty of two assaults to be imprisoned for a >>> fortnight, fined six pence and to give Security before a Magistrate to >> be >>> of the Peace. 1pound. 7shillings and 9pence. >>> Received a true Copy of this Kallender, ( signed ) John [ ? ], Gaoler at >>> Carlow Gaol. [Jailer at Carlow Jail ] >>> (signed ) Benjamin Bunbury, One of the Magistrates of the Peace for >> Carlow >>> County appointed by our Majesty Lord George, King, Defender of the Faith >>> and so Forth. >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > ------------------------------- > 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

THE DEMISE OF CARLOW CASTLE, as recorded by Brewer in 1824. This noble pile was constructed on a slight eminence upon the west side of the town overhanging the river Barrow. It was of a square form flanked with a circular tower at each angle. The doors were remarkably low and narrow and the apertures for the admission of light consisted chiefly or entirely of loop holes. From the grandeur of its proportions, and the favourable character of its situation, which allowed a free view of its massy towers and rugged sides from the various roads which lead to the town, this august pile constituted a feature of peculiar magnificence in the architectural display of Carlow. But folly and presumption have recently deprived the pictorial examiner and the antiquary of an object so well calculated for their gratification. The manor of Carlow including this noble monument of antiquity passed in consequence of an unredeemed mortgage from a late Earl Thomond to the family of a Mr Hamilton, his Lordship's law agent, who are the present proprietors. By this family a lease of the castle was granted in the year 1814 to a physician named Middleton who had formed the project of establishing in a Maison de Santé for the reception of lunatics and who speedily commenced operations with a view of rendering the building amenable to his purpose. As the loop holes in the walls were not sufficient to give the requisite light and ventilation, and as the thickness of the walls contracted undesirably the space of the rooms, this person, confiding in his own skill, undertook to enlarge the windows and diminish the thickness of the walls without calling professional knowledge to his assistance. For the latter object he laboured by a process rather new in practice, namely that of blasting the walls with gunpowder. He had proceeded far in his improvements when the pile, which had for so many ages derided the efforts of the battering ram, yielded to this more fearful mode of assault and more than one half of the castle fell to the ground.! Only the western side, comprising two of the angular towers is now remaining. This tremendous downfall occurred at the hour of nine in the morning, a time at which the workmen had suspended their labour, and happily no life was lost. The huge masses of ruin incumber the whole of the mount, except the west side, and mix with cottages at its base, which are inferior in size to many of these ponderous fragments. A man who was a witness of this unusual accident described the spectacle to the present writer in very lively terms, and observed that the downfall was so slow in operation that a person had sufficient time to escape from the sphere of destruction (as was the case with himself) after viewing the portentous and amazing nodding of the towers. The immense pile gradually disparted into vast masses, which broke with difficulty into fragments less mighty. Many gigantic pieces of the ruin rolled to the very doors of some humble cabins on the opposite side of a road at the base of the castle mount. >From “The beauties of Ireland: being original ‪delineations, topographical, historical, and biographical, of each county’, Volume 2, by James Norris Brewer (‪Sherwood, Jones, & co.‬, 1826)