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CORlow htst=ORICOl ant> aRchaeolo51ca l soc1ecy cumonn St;on~e 05us seont>oloiocht;o cheot;hoRloch 2007 EDITION Billy Ellis Appreciation Rock Art at Knockrnore Carloviana Anniversary Heritage Week 2007 The Lighting of Leighlinbridge Leighlinbridge Academy Winter Lectures The Breretons of Carrigslaney The Friarstown Font A Forgotten Past The St. Mullins Riot Barrow Starch Works Anniversaries The Barrow Navigation Service Departments ITC Annie D' Alton Rathvilly Farm Labourers Schools of Carlow Paying Respects The Prendergast Account Book Bagenalstown and Wexford Railway Ballon Riot 1823 Impact of Muintir Na Tire Michael Slattery History Lectures 2008 SPONSORS CARBERY CONSTRUCTION LTD. HOSEYS BUILDING CONTRACTORS RETAIL STORES AND WHOLESALE FRUIT MERCHANT Green Road, Carlow. Staplestown Road, Carlow. Tel: 059 9143252. Fax: 059 9132291. Tel: 059 9131562 email: [email protected] SHAW & SONS LTD. GAELSCOIL EOGHAIN Ul THUAIRISC SHAWS TULLOW STREET, CARLOW. Gamin na Fuinseoige, Ceatharlach. 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Tel. 059 9130169 Phone: 059 9131093 CARLOVIANA CARLOVIANA Contents December 2007 No.56 Message from the President ................. 2 Billy Ellis Appreciation ......................... 3 Editorial Committee: Mrs. Cathleen Delaney Heritage Week 2007 ............................... 4 Tom King Martin Nevin Michael Slattery Pat O'Neill History Lectures 2008 ........................... 6 Printed by: CARLOW ADVERTISER & PRINTING Winter Lectures ..................................... 7 I.S.S.N. 0790 - 0813 A Forgotten Past .................................... 8 Anniversaries ....................................... 10 In 1946, the founding members of the Old Carlow Society had as one of their objectives " to preserve a permanent record of life in Carlow in the past". The cre Annie D' Alton ...................................... 11 ation of a local museum was one of their ambitions and indeed in only the second issue of Carloviana in 1948,an article appeared " Why a local museum". In this Paying Respects .................................... 12 article the requirements of such an undertaking were outlined. However l 950's Ireland was not the time nor the place for such an adventure Ballon Riot 1823 ................................... 16 by a local authority and the society soon came to realise that they were ploughing Rock Art at Knockmore ...................... 17 a lone furrow on this issue. In the late l 960's the society decided to go it alone and a group of enthua The Lighting of sistic members undertook to assemble the sine qua non of any museum: a collec Leighlinbridge ...................................... 18 tion of historical artefacts.Using their considerable powers of persuasion mem bers such as Seamus Murphy,Kevin Kennedy,James Moran and the late Pat The Breretons of Purcell,Alec Bums,Bill Kelly and Michael Dooley assembled an extensive col Carrigslaney ......................................... 20 lection of objects and documents relating to the history and archaeology of the county.Through the 1970's and 1980's this collection would eventually grow to The St. Mullins Riot ........................... 26 over four thousand artefacts. The society operated their museum initially on a voluntary basis,and later The Barrow Navigation ....................... 30 with the help of FAS- assisted schemes for the period from 1974 to 2002.The first location for the museum was in the Old Academy in College Street ( now the Rathvilly Farm Labourers ................. 32 Cathedral Parish Centre ).In 1979 they obtained a lease from the Urban District Council of the Concert Room in the Town Hall. The Prendergast In the late l 990's with the lease on the Concert Room heading towards its' Account Book ....................................... 35 termination the search for a new premises became urgent.In October 1994, the then county manager ,Matt O'Connor,announced that the museum would be trans Impact of Muintir Na Tire .................................................. 45 ferred to the Old Assembly Rooms on Dublin Street ,then being vacated by the county library. Plans were drawn up for the conversion of the building but the Bagenalstown and project never materialised. Wexford Railway ................................. 49 When the lease of the Concert Room expired in 2002,the society did not have the resources to acquire another property . The society decided to accept the Carloviana Anniversary ...................... 52 offer from the Town Council of a partnership role in the joint development of a new county museum in the premises of the former Presentation Convent in Leighlinbridge Academy ..................... 56 College Street.Since 2002 the collection has been catalogued and stored under the supervision of the curator of Carlow County Museum,Dermot Mulligan. The Friarstown Font ........................... 57 The end of a long and interminable journey of over thirty years has at last appeared.Carlow Town Council has published their plans for the establishment of Barrow Starch Works ......................... 58 Carlow County Museum at the former Presentation Convent in College Street.The consultation process has started and we expect construction work will commence Service Departments ITC .................. 65 in 2008. We hope that the museum authorities will recognise in their building and dis Schools of Carlow ............................... 77 plays the contribution made by the society of an important and extensive histori Officers & Committee ...................... 106 cal collection reflecting the lives of the inhabitants of this county for generations past. List of Members ................................ 107 FRONT COVER: Dr. Fitzgerald, Resident Medical Superintendent, Carlow Asylum with We acknowledge with grateful thanks his wife and children in his new Darracq motor car circa 1905. Photographed by Stephen the efforts of our contributors, written and Nolan, Storekeeper, Carlow Asylum. (Photographic Collection, Carlow County Library. photographic, and sponsors. FROM THE PRESIDENT The publication of Carloviana each year is an petition for County Carlow pupils. The winning opportune occasion to take stock of the year's entry in the post-primary schools' section, A activities and of the health of the Society. Forgotten Past, is published on page 8 in this jour nal. The primary schools' section in particular During the year gone by the Carlow Historical and attracted many entries of very high quality. We are Archaeological Society has continued to be as running the competition once again this year and active as ever, and it gives me much satisfaction to hoping for an even greater response. be able to report that by all the signs your Society is in robust health. Your committee has also been looking into the pos sibility of setting up a website for the society. The The 2006 edition of Carloviana was, at I 08 pages, possibilities here are in the long term very exciting the largest we have ever published. The number but they will take much time and great effort