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Phone: 0.503/43808 SINCE 181.5 Cover Design: Pat Purcell Carloviana - Millennium Copy ·Page I Contents CARLOVIANA Viscount Frankfort .......................... 2 December 1999 The CarlowWorkhouse ..................... 7 No. 47 Local Government Elections ............. 14 Editors: Rev. Dermot McKenna Major Fitzmaurice ........................... 15 Martin Nevin Forgotten Carlow Town cemetery..... 16 Typesetting: Martin Nevin Reflections on the Millennium .......... 18 Past and present .............................. 21 Printed by: CARLOW ADVERTISING & PRINTING Old Leighlin after Laserian................ 22 LS.S.N. 0790 - 0813 Molaise's water oftruth...................... 31 Leighlin Cathedral in 1851... ............. 32 Editorial William Tyndale ............................... 34 Secretary's report. ............................... 37 The Psalmist tells us that "a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday" Administrative County Boundaries... 38 (Psalm 90 v 4) As we stand at the end of the twentieth century, and look forward to the twenty-frrst, we remember to thank the Lord for all His blessings. Carlow - Smith's Hill.......................... 40 Massive changes have taken place in the last thousand years. For example, educa­ Murtagh Dunne ................................. 43 tion was associated with the monasteries. We can think of the monastic schools of Carlow's Cromlechs............................ 47 St Lazerian in Old Leighlin, or St Moling in St Mullins. Later Trinity College, Dublin was founded, followed by the other universities, and the Institutes of Ballynasilloge .................................... 50 Technology. Education is no longer the privilege of the few, but is open to all. Carlow Courthouse & Railings.......... 51 Transport has changed completely. For centuries the horse was the main means of Chairpersons - Carlow Co. CounciL..52 transport until the railway in the last century. The growth in air travel has meant that Tinryland ............................................ 54 emigrants to distant lands can return home now regularly. The world has become a smaller place. The big improvements in medicine have virtually wiped out many Carlow's Cross Slabs .......... , .............. 56 diseases that threatened mankind. Better nutrition has increased the average life Carlow Person of the Century ........... 58 expectancy. Technology has developed from using the most basic simple tools to the growth in personal computers, connected to the Internet, and email. All these Carlow's Stone Crosses ..................... 60 changes have been beneficial. William the Marshall ........................ 64 Yet we might ask ourselves, the following questions, Has mankind changed? Are we .John England ..................................... 65 more loving to one another than the people in the last millennium? In this century some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind have taken place. Six million Bagenalstown - turn of the century... 67 Jews perished in the last war. More recently many died in the civil wars in the Bagenalstown 1910 ............................. 69 Balkans, the African state of Ruanda, and in East Timor. The Scottish poet Robert Bums wrote "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn". How Carlow Workman's Club .................. 71 true are his words! Chairpersons - Carlow U.D.C. ......... 74 The only solution to such suffering lies in the Christian message of love, and for­ Local Government administrators .... 77 giveness. The teaching of Christ in His Sermon on the Mount shows us the way for­ Rev. Daniel W. Cahill .......................... 79 ward to a better society. In St Matthew's Gospel He tells us " Blessed are the mer­ ciful, for they shall obtain mercy". "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall see Pioneer Total Abstinence ................... 81 God". William Shakespeare, in his delightful play, The Merchant of Venice, tells us A noteworthy anniversary................... 85 that "the quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heav­ en, upon the place beneath, it is twice blest, it blesseth him that gives, and him that The Marley evictions ......................... 86 receives" All benefit from displaying such qualities. Carlow's rock art ............................... 91 The Jesuit scientist, and theologian, Chardin refers to the Alpha point at the begin­ Destruction ofKilleshin round tower... 95 ning of the world's existence, converging on the omega point, being the final stage. Christ is our Alpha, and Omega. Revelation! v 8 "I mn Alpha, and Omega, the Boss Duffy ofHacketstown ............... 96 beginning, and the ending". Scully's census of 1840 ...................... 99 Christ was here at the beginning of this millennium, and will be present also at the The Dawn of Christianity ................ 100 end of it. Like the Good Shepherd who tends His flock, He will lead us safely into the next millennium. Officers and members ..................... 102 The Editors wish all our readers God's blessing in our lives as we move into the next millennium. We acknowledge with grateful thanks the efforts of our contributors written and photographic and sponsors. In especial we thank the Nationalist & Leinster Times for Reproduction in whole or in part of any arti­ access to its files and allowing helpful extracts to be used. cle is forbidden without the written consent of the author and the Society. Carloviana - Millennium Copy Page 2 Coolcullen was subject to several acts of violence in the 1840s. The Viscount Frankfort, SK correspondence contains references to the murder of Matthew Brennan in 1844. Along with his brother, he had in the early 1840s taken a holding previously occupied by a tenant who had been ejected. The earliest mention of the murder is in a letter dated 26 November Sir Charles Burton 1844, from Matthew's brother, Michael7, to Joseph Kincaid (partner in the firm of SK), written from "Milfall"8, and bearing the postmark of Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow, in