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Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society Cumann Staire agus Seandalafochta Cheatharloch Page 1_Carloviana 04.qxd 13/11/2012 13:31 Page 1 1 Carloviana CARLOVIANA Front Cover December 2012 Ruins of Clogrennane House No. 61 Photograph courtesy of: Shay Kinsellaa. I.S.S.N. 0790 - 0813 Regular Features Articles Editorial ................................................ 2 El Greco and the Carlow Nexus ....................................................................................... 5 Message from the President ................ 3 History of Killeshin Parish................................................................................................ 6 Winter Lecture Series .......................... 4 Development and Demise of the Carlow Burgess......................................................... 12 National Schools History Prize ......... 67 Lewis’s Carlow contd........................................................................................................ 15 Father John Dempsy and Carlow Town Commission 18 Obituaries............................................. 80 .................................................. Role of the Irish in World War II 21 Officers............................................... 197 ................................................................................... The Ancient Order of Hibernians in Graiguenamanagh 24 Members ............................................ 198 ............................................. Drumphea - The Coming of Christianity ...................................................................... 29 Jonathan Swift’s Carlow Connections........................................................................... 32 The Remarkable Haughtons of Carlow and Kildare ................................................... 42 Eagle Hill, Hacketstown, its Environs and Characters .................................................... 55 Cultural Life in Carlow..................................................................................................... 60 The Origin of Carlow’s Name ........................................................................................... 62 Ballyhacket, Hacketstown and the Micro-History of Anglo-Norman Colonists in Northeast Co. Carlow.................................................................................... 63 Garlic is good, but give me Scallions ............................................................................. 68 History of the RTC & ITC contd ...................................................................................... 72 Gate Lodges of Co. Carlow............................................................................................. 75 Building on a Legacy - the Archaeological collection of Carlow County Museum ........................................ 77 Front Cover Picture The Archaeology of Ballon Hill: A Review and Proposal ............................................ 81 A Museum is Born 89 Ruins of Clogrennane House ............................................................................................................ Vallancey’s Military Surveys of 1776-1777 & 1796 as relating to Photograph courtesy of: County Carlow and its Immediate Environs 90 Shay Kinsellaa. .................................................................... A History of Brigidine Foundations in Roscrea, Ireland and Kenosha and Titusville, America.................................................................................................... 94 Clonmore, Co. Carlow. Its Antiquities......................................................................... 105 Carlow County Museum - Ireland’s Newest Museum Opens ................................... 110 The ‘Slashing Parson’ of 1798: The Life and Death of Robert Rochfort of Clogrennane, Co. Carlow, 1775-1811 ........................................................................... 117 Kavanagh Castles of Co. Carlow.................................................................................. 140 Going to the Pictures ...................................................................................................... 141 Observations on a Flint Leaf-Shaped Arrowhead from Ballintemple, Co. Carlow and some related finds from the County................................................. 144 Dictionary of Irish Biography....................................................................................... 150 Carlow’s Olympic Connections .................................................................................... 153 The Wastegrass and its Mass Rock .............................................................................. 155 The Tithe War in North-East Carlow .......................................................................... 160 The History Festival of Ireland..................................................................................... 166 Back Cover Picture The Rowing Bunburys of Lisnavagh............................................................................ 168 Costello Memorial Chapel The “Shemus” Cartoons in the Freeman’s Journal.................................................... 177 Photograph courtesy of: Letters from Clonburrin 1880-1930 ................................................................................... 180 Bertie Watchorn. Carloviana 2012 Page 1_Carloviana 04.qxd 13/11/2012 13:31 Page 2 2 Carloviana CARLOVIANA Back Cover December 2012 Costello Memorial Chapel No. 61 Photograph courtesy of: Bertie Watchorn. I.S.S.N. 0790 - 0813 Editor: Jim Shannon Editorial Editorial Committee: At last we have a County Museum. After all the delays, disap- Martin Nevin pointments and postponements the project that this Society began so many Jimmy O’Toole years ago has finally become a reality and the facility is open to the pub- Ann Power lic. The Town Council provided the finance, the Society provided the bulk Nial O’Neill of the artefacts, the Curator and his staff provide the professional expert- Pat O’Neill Padraig Dooley ise, and numerous volunteers provide generously of their free time to help staff it. This museum will be a great asset to the area and we as a Society Published by: can feel justifiably proud of our part in its creation. Let us ensure that we Carlow Historical & use wisely our three seats on the Board of the Museum to make certain Archaeological Society, that it will continue into the future the work that our members began, and P.O. Box 162, that Carlow will have a first-rate museum. Carlow. It is good to see that the National Museum has made available the Email: artefacts discovered in the course of the dig on the route of the new [email protected] motorway. The display in our County Museum really brings home to the Website: visitor just how long human settlement goes back in this area – much further than history records. www.carlowhistorical.com Carlow Historical & Archaeological This edition of “Carloviana” features several articles by authors Society is affiliated to the Federation of new to us. This is a very welcome development. It is very good that Local History Societies. people continue to come forward with interesting contributions on various topics, and we would indeed welcome even more such articles for future All articles in this journal are the editions. It is particularly gratifying to see some young contributors copyright of the Carlow Historical & coming forward and we hope they will continue to submit their work to us Archaeological Society and may not be in the years ahead. Well done to all of you and we are well aware that reproduced in any form without the without your work this Journal would be a much poorer affair. permission of the editor. Finally, we remind readers that the Society can be reached via Views and opinions expressed in this email at [email protected] for further information regarding journal are not those of the editor or of the Carlow Historical & Archaeological our lectures, outings, publications, or anything else about us that the Society. enquirer may wish to know. Printed by: Carlow Advertiser & Printing, Strawhall Industrial Estate, Carlow. Carloviana 2012 Carloviana - backup_President's message 05/11/2012 19:39 Page 1 3 Message from the President he year started on a very sad note when our secretary, In conjunction with Carlow Tourism we presented a Heritage Thomas Brennan died suddenly in early December last. Week exhibition at the Shaw Visual Centre. Photographs of TThomas was in his second year as our secretary and will Carlow Sugar Factory from 1926 to the 1960s together with be missed for the quiet, courteous and efficient manner in which other photographs of Carlow town and county from the early he handled everything and everyone with whom he came in 20th century were displayed. The exhibition was organized by contact. We extend our sincere condolences to his sisters Phyllis Martin Nevin and launched by Turtle Bunbury. Carlow Tourism and Sheila. has also produced a calendar for 2013 featuring several photo- graphs from this collection. The ambitions of our founder members and other early mem- bers of our society were finally realized on the 11th April when Our Heritage Week mini lectures drew our largest ever audience our new Carlow County Museum was officially opened by Phil when three of our members gave lectures on local businesses Hogan T.D., Minister for the Environment. We are justifiably that have ceased trading and are now only memories. The lec- proud of our involvement in this project which is outlined in