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Sales and Rental, Video and Hi-Fi GRAJGUECULLEN BRIDGE KENNEDY STREET, CARLOW. Phone: 0503/31770 Worth the Visit. Est. 1827 HACKETSTOWN. Phone: 050871124 CROTTY'S QUINNSWORTH SUPERMARKET BAKERIES, CARLOW KENNY AVENUE, CARLOW High-Class Bakers ofFancy Breads and Phone: 0503/43216 Confectionery CARLOW CUTRTAIN CENTRE FOLEY'S PUB Specialists in Covering Eiderdowns, Upholstery, Loose Covers KENNEDY STREET, CARLOW Pelmets, Curtains, Bedspreads. Prop: Kieran Foley 10 MONTGOMERY ST. CARLOW. Tel: 0503/43483 Carloviana 1996 Page 1 Contents CARLO VIANA 1996 No. 44 William J. Onahan.......................... ' 2 Editors: Tomas MacGabhann The Remarkable Woman from Pat O'Neill Carlow............................................... 5 Rev. Dermott McKenna Martin Nevin The Remarkable Man from Carlow............................................... 6 CARLOW ADVERTISER & PRINTING I.S.S.N. 0790 - 0813 The Emergency 1940 - 1946 ........... 7 The Weatherman Murphy.............. 11 Secretary of State of Winconsin ..... 13 fl~~ Laserian's Scottish Connection ...... 14 Air Survey in Co. Carlow................ 16 IT was very appropriate that the first General Meeting of the Old Carlow Society would have been held in Carlow Technical School, formerly the The Mullaghreelan Murder............ 23 Assembly Rooms. Nothing daunted by the date ( I st. April 1946) the Society Carlow Redcoat-Carolina Rebel ..... 29 launched an effort which would have gladdened the heart of the previous owner - G.B.S. Shaw made the gift of the premises to Most Rev. Dr. Foley for the peo­ From Carlow Royalist to ple of Carlow and the premises started on a new lift as a two-roomed Technical Kentucky Republican ...................... 31 School in 1923. A year short of its golden jubilee the Vocational School was tr;msferred to new premises on the Kilkenny Road. Its history like numerous The Elections in Carlow in 1830 .... 36 invaluable records has been preserved in the pages of Carloviana our journal a monument to its work a treasury of scholarship and research. William Dargan................................ 41 The object of the Society was to "foster and promote an interest in the histo­ ry of Carlow and district and in particular to preserve a permanent record oflife Chairpersons..................................... 44 in Carlow in the past." There are three survivors of the original brave band who Abraham Brownrigg........................ 47 started the Society: only in the past few months has one of our past presidents passed to his Heavenly reward - Alec Bums, who was for years the back-bone Religious Life of Carlow Town....... 49 of the O.C.S. Go ndeanfaid Dia tr6caire ar a anam dilis!! Our Chairmen thro' the years have been staunch men and women who have Clonmelsh (Rath Melsigi), kept the flag flying and made the Society the worth while entity that it is: the Willibrord, & the origins of museum is a fact and surprises visitors(not only out-of-town ones) with its Irish Dance....................................... 53 varying types of exhibits and is a tribute to those who worked so hard to estab­ lish it. Carlow Old and New........................ 55 We have been blessed in our Secretaries who have kept the spirit of the foun­ A Voice in Carlow Affairs............... 57 dation alive: the secretary is the hub on which all societies keep turning and draw life from. The O.C.S. seems to have had a large supply of them and keeps Art Mac Murchii o on producing them- both male and female. Long may it continue. Caomhanaigh.................................... 59 Our journal Carloviana is produced yearly and is a great tribute to the contrib­ utors of papers - many of them no longer with us - for the amount of work on Coonogue Eviction........................... 60 historical research that was put into the collecting of material for their articles. If it were not for voluntary work these faithful and dedicated enthusiasts who St. Mo-Ling....................................... 63 contribute the papers, the editors who compiled them, the accompanying pho­ A Carlow Emigrant.......................... 70 tographs and our faithful advertisers, there would not be a Carloviana. Thank you. From the Chair................................. 72 With this in view, we may hopefully, look forward to the next 50 years and hope that new members will strive with greater efforts to record the history and List of Able Men for the year 1810 74 traditions of the town and county of Carlow. 7ko#<a4 1/ta,e, ~ Jackson Collection............................ 78 Veuie 'Joitt 1996 John Lawler...................................... 82 We acknowledge with grateful thanks the efforts of our con­ Carlow Art Collection..................... 84 tributors written and photographic and sponsors. In especial Reproduction in whole or in part of any arti­ we thank the Nationalist & Leinster Times for access to its cle is forbidden without the written consent files and allowing helpful extracts to be used. of the author and the Society. Carloviana 1996 Page 2 remedies, and then the Doctor, and the Priest. When the oth­ ers were gathered around her bedside, William was told to come close, and listen to her dying words. These included pleas that he would always remember his religious duties, respect his Father, and care for his two sisters. These wishes he carried out to the best of his ability. America Shortly after the death of his Mother, the family set sail for America. In New York, he got a job in a lawyer's office, cleaning, sweeping etc for $1 per hour, and his board, and his clothes. In 1854 he decided to follow his Father, and sisters to Chicago. Sixty years later he described what the city was like at that time to the members of the Illinois State Historical Society "we made our limited trips within the city on foot by omnibus - the latter made the journey on the south side from 1836-1919 the Courthouse to State, and twelfth Street - over a planked roadway. Pedestrian exercise within the city was in those days a precarious, and often a perilous existence owing to William J. Onahan became one of the inequality of the sidewalks