Carloviana Journal of the Old Carlow Society • ftne Shilling, r Willie Hosey ~k~_,/tf!lbn?u:// (~u{}w~ !be/ 138 Tullow Street Purveyors of Pure Food Supplies Carlow Wine Merchants Tea and Coffee Specialists Tailoring and Outfitting . Men's Shoes .. Service and Courtesy Civility -- Value HIGH-GRADE CLOTHES /-?cf-/-?.9 5J::~w 5/hee( FOR MEN AND BOYS Y5attiJw Phone Carlow 16 and 202 -------------·~---~---------, Gavin's Fishing Tackle JOHN HARDING Granby Row, Carlow Builder, Contractor and Joinery Manufacturer ALL TYPES RODS, REELS, LINES, BAITS IN STOCK ALL TYPES OF BUILDING AND REPAIR WORK EXECUTED Over a hundred patterns of Trout Flies. Rod Repairs Good Stock Salmon Flies SPECIALISTS IN PLUMBING Agent for and Walker Bampton SANITARY INSTALLATIONS Allcock Millward Ogden Smith Enquiries : Rudge 48 Tullow Street, Carlow Haynes Estimates Free Dayl Works: John Street Mil bro !J3 Cunningham Groceries Visit PHOTOGRAPHER The Crystal Bar 17 GJJublin Street Ca,low Proprietor: JOHN MCEVOY Comfortable Accommodation and Wedding and Birthday Parties catered for. High-Class Catering Lunches, Dinners and Teas Portraiture a Speciality Parties catered for on short notice Attends all Dances on Request Tullow Street, Carlow Phone Carlow 281. DARCY'S MERNE BROTHERS \\< holesale and Retail Manufacturers of Household, Office and School Furniture Shop Fitments, Kitchen Units, Joinery: for Value C.D.B. Hives, Bar Frames and Bee Appliances. QUOTATIONS ON REQUEST FURNITURE Give us a trial and be assured of & DRAPERY High-class Workmanship OFFICE AND WORKS: P. & M. DARCY I Tullow Road, Carlow I CARLOW & TULLOW Phone 214 TONY'S Carlow's · Leading Ladies' and Gent's Hairdressers Make your appointment now flea, '11.\nr, Spirit and Provision for Christmas ;Jr[erchanl I . I Gver at your Service l --T-U-LL_o_wCARLOW__ ST_R_E-ET _ _, ,. ·------------ l A winner all the way SHEVLIN'S BREAD International Exhibition 1953 photography Highly Recommended SHEVLIN'S 83---4 Tullow Street GODFREY CARLOW Carlow 't ! I ************************** _.._.:..-..~·r . ' ''i.J.·. l LAWLERS ************************** 102 Tullow St., Carlow Tel: 260 1 KEHOE S FOR RADIOS Hughes Bros. I Sole Carlow Agents for I MONUMENTAL WORKS MURPHY AND PYE RADIO Philips, Pilot, Marconi Models also stocked Carlow Efficient After Sales Service Memorials Erected in Marble and Repairs to all Makes Limestone and Granite All work carried out under GERALD KEHOE Personal Supervision Radio and Electrical Service 136 Tullow Street, Carlow · Designs and quotations on request The House for Men I Michael Doyle Carlow IS THE SHOP FOR- Mr. Everyman Grocery and Provisions It provides for his every need in clothes. General Hardware Keen buying offers ,Mr. Everyman big savings in outlay. Expert knowledge, Agent for ESSE Cookers guarantees him . Quality Goods! . Latest Designs . Better Made~and Mr. Everyman-The Finest Tailoring I Service in the SoJUth East-awaits you. Pri,ces are of course keen. THE SHAMROCK ADDRESS: DUBLIN ST. 71 Tullow Street, Carlow Proprietor: M. V. HANLEY 'PHONE: Telephone. Carlow 7 113 For all your Electrical Services and Supplies CONSULT l MAHON BROS. Electrical Engineers Potato Market -- Carlow See our Showrooms for the latest in Everything Electrical Quotations on request 1903 OVER 50 YEARS SHOE MAKING 1956 "A GOVERNEY SHOE" and GOVERNEY AGRICULTURAL BOOTS are widely known OUR REPUTATION is backed by over 50 years experience. GOVERNEY'S FOOTWEAR, made by craftsmen, is a Household "Word." Sold in all Leading Shops in Towns and Villages MANUFACTURED BY Michael Governey Ltd., Carlow TELEPHONE 110 Hairdressing for Smart Meo l Carlow's Leading Bakers and Confectioners Men who value their I appearance come to I I us for Expert Service * * * 1' Christmas Cake~ a Speciality ._-i Purest ingredients only used You, too, should look ~\ your best. So call * * * 'round soon DUNNY'S BURNS CASTLE STREET ,Gentlemen's Hairdressers CARLOW CARLOW Phone Ip -I Carlow's New Modern William Mulhall Restaurant Wedding, Ordination and Private Auctioneer and Parties catered for. Valuer BED AND BREAKFAST ---- DINNERS, TEAS Dublin Street MINERALS ICES CIGARETTES Carlow CLEAR Y'S Phone 121 Dublin Street, Carlow J_ NO ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN OLD CARLOVIANS THAT W. & G. Hadden, Ltd., have carried on the family business for over one hundred years and that the Carlow Branch was purchased from Mr. Adam Ford in 1909. Mr. Ford's predecessor was Mr. Luttrell, in partnership with Mr. Burgess of Athlone, and Mr. Luttvell's predecessor was Mr. Henry Banks (a grand uncle of Mr. W. H. Hadden and at one time Chairman of the Carlow Urban District Council) who owned the main part of the present business in the middle of the 19th century. HAD DENS W. & G. HADDEN LTD. CARLOW Cailoviana _____________________________ Journal of th@Old Carlow Society Vol. I. No. 4,s: New Series, Dec. 1956 L. D. BERGIN and W. V, HADDEN, Joint Editors. Looking Forward WHEN the Old Carlow Society was founded, it aimed at contributing to the social history of the district. The Society at once attracted a fair following. Its main­ springs have been the papers written by its members and the annual publication of Carloviana. To make this Journal historically valuable and assure its wide appeal is no easy task. To give it variety we have asked people outside the Society to contribute. Father Hickey, who wrote the history of Carlow Cathedral, gives -~, us in this issue an electoral milestone of the 19th century. EDITORIAL We are conscious that the Journal could be improved, * especially if we had a more varied yearly repertoire of SHAW'S TIES WITH articles to draw on. CARLOW There are still many subjects of local history to reward * the researcher, and if we are to maintain the standard of POMP AND PAGEANTRY former years we must be up and doing. The younger * members of the Society should be encouraged to be more than mere listeners. They must be encouraged to be active * contributors. The more writers we have on local history CROMWELL AND THE the better: for history is the life-blood of the Society, ANGLO-IRISH whose function is to research, to reveal, and to instruct. * This is our common cause, the primary reason why we LOOKING DOWN THE exist. DUBLIN ROAD A fine social spirit generated by common interest has * so far guided the Old Carlow Society, and we hope that ACCOUNT OF PAINSTOWN the useful work it is doing will be enhanced in the years * ahead. A FAMOUS ELECTION CAMPAIGN We have lost two founder members by the departure I of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard O'Neill, who leave us a legacy in this issue, the one on George Bernard Shaw's relations THE CHRISTI:N BROTHERS 1, with Carlow-this is Shaw's centenary year-and the other IN CARLOW I a fine paper on the Dublin Road. * If future members can emulate the active interest of BIRTH OF CARLOW I COLLEGE these two members then we can rest easy about the con­ tinuing prosperity of the Old Carlow Society. I SEVEN HE centenary of George Bernard Shaw's birth T occurred on Thursday, 26th July. Shaw's ties with Carlow town and his various gifts to the people make it appropriate that we should pay him some modest Shaw's respect. His first gesture was his gift of the old Assembly Rooms, now the Carlow Technical School in Dublin Street. He offered these premises to the Technical The Civie Instruction Committee through its Chairman, the late Most Rev. Dr. Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, in Improvement 1919. The premises eventually became the property of Fund the Vocational Education Committee. On 13th May, 1944, George Bt:rnard Shaw added to By L. D. BERGIN his previous gift the rents from his other properties in Carlow, which he had municipalised under a special Act of the Dail, introduced by the late Deputy James Hughes. taken, would the Council accept the Trust, and estab­ The fund is ,administered by the Carlow Urban District lish a Standing Committee Council assisted by Carlow Arts Council. or Bub-Committee to ad­ minister it? You may say that the ARLOW'S Civic Improve­ only one day in Carlow. property is too small to be .C ment Fund owes its origin The estate is managed by worth considering for such to Irish playwright George Major A. J. W. Fitzmaurice purposes. I should reply Bernard Shaw, whose cen­ of 1 Leinster Crescent. that it represents solid tenary of birth we cele­ land, the importance of brated t h i s year. This Unusual, Not Easy which to a city is not fairly house property of Shaw measurable by the income in Carlow, inherited from his I, therefore, propose to of its private landlord, and mother's side of the family, hand over the property to that I can stipulate that it was described in typical the Carlow municipality shall not be a closed Trust Shavian style in the letter he for the common welfare. I but be the nucleus of a civic wrote to Carlow Urban find, however, that this improvement Fund well ad­ Council, offering the pro­ step, being unusual, is not vertised and open to all perty and its rents for easy. Nobody seems to citizens who desire to f al­ Civic purposes. The rents know how it is to be done. low my example, but, like at £180, gross, Shaw in­ If I propose to leave the myself, do not know ex­ tended to be the nucleus property to some relative actly how to do it. It should of a bigger fund, which has who might, like my grand­ not bGar my name nor however not materialised. ! ather mortgage it to the that of any other individual last farthing and leave it in nor of any creed or politi­ The Letter a ruinous condition, I could cal party.