A South Wicklow Miscellany (1)

© Kevin Lee
Cover Photo: Betty Whelan    

Full title: The Liars’ Bench: history, heritage and lockdown lore from South Wicklow

Creator / Author: Kevin Lee

Item Type / Page count: Book / 328pp

When Published: 2021

Publisher / Place of Publication: Coollattin Canadian Connection / Co. Wicklow

About: In March 2020, when COVID-19 pushed the country into lockdown, local historian, Kevin Lee, had the idea of starting a series of postings on the Facebook platform. These postings would cover aspects of the history of places like Carnew, Shillelagh, Aughrim, Tinahely and their hinterlands. There was a tremendous response to this initiative which has garnered over 3,000 followers. This book is a compendium of the 99 postings (and responses) which appeared between 14/03/2020 and 20/06/2020. It is the first of two collections now published in book form. A glance at the contents listing below gives an idea of the range of topics covered.

ID number(s): 9781399901055

Contents: Dedication — Acknowledgements — Photo Credits — Introduction — Foreword — 1. Snowfalls, Gales and COVID-19 — 2. The Way We (They!) Were — 3. Can You Identify This Young Man? — 4. A St. Patrick’s Day Greeting — 5. Old Photos–New Images — 6. Carnew Emmets, Kingpins of Underage Hurling — 7. Carnew Emmets, Under-14 Champions, 1976 — 8. Senior Football Final 1951 — 9. A Title Won on the Pitch but Lost in the Boardroom — 10. Who was the ‘Gunner’ Behan? — 11. Junior Hurling Champions, 1959 — 12. The Glory Years — 13. The Foundations of a Great Team — 14. A Real Piece of Nostalgia — 15. The 52-year History of Quinn’s Livestock Mart — 16. ‘Old Paddy’ Austin — 17. Is this Unique? — 18. The Water Pump on the Woolgreen — 19. The Fitzwilliam School in Carnew — 20. All Saints School — 21. All Saints Church — 22. The Relics of a Bitter Dispute — 23. Perforated Tombstones in the Churchyard — 24. Going, Going, Gone — 25. Carnew Castle-a False Dawn for Carnew — 26. Carnew Castle-the Woodhouse Era — 27. A Courthouse, a Bank, a Drapery Shop, a Restaurant — 28. McGirr’s Pharmacy-a Tailors, a Coopers, a Saddlery and finally a Pharmacy — 29. The Liars’ Bench — 30. The Liar Lives on — 31. The Last of the Benchmen — 32. Golden Jubilee Celebration 1888 — 33. Bank of Ireland — 34. Carnew Castle-the Spicer Era — 35. Carnew Castle-Doctor Zbrigniev Dabszewski — 36. A Divided Society — 37. The PTAA Hall (Pioner Total Abstinence Association) — 38. Macra na Feirme — 39. The Power of Social Media — 40. Tom Fleming, Shillelagh’s Proudest Son — 41. Carnew Stud — 42. A Methodist Meeting Room, a Tailor’s and the Workshop of a Master Craftsman — 43. Wesleyan Methodist Church (now Altura Credit Union) — 44. Appeal to Cocooning Ladies — 45. History of the ‘Tech’, aka Carnew Vocational School, aka Coláiste Bhríde-the Early Years — 46. Carnew ‘Tech’-the 1986 Extension — 47. Carnew ‘Tech’-a Tribute to a Great Servant — 48. Carnew ‘Tech’-the 1950’s — 49. Carnew ‘Tech’-the Schools Founding Father, J.J. McCrea — 50. Carnew ‘Tech’-the Advent of Free Education — 51. Carnew ‘Tech’-First Ministerial Visit — 52. Snapshots in Time — 53. An End to Cocooning — 54. Kilcavan Slate Quarry — 55. Coollattin-Heaven on our Doorstep — 56. A Memorable Day in Croke Park — 57. The Coach Building Factory of David Beddy at the Corner House — 58. The Church of the Most Holy Rosary — 59. Fundraising for The Church of the Most Holy Rosary — 60. Darlington’s, a Great Superstore — 61. Murphys of Ballingate — 62. Corrells-150 Years of Service to the Community — 63. The Liars’ Hole at the Brook — 64. School Height aka Brunswick Row aka Pavey’s Height — 65. Commemorating the Manchester Martyrs — 66. Tour of Coollattin Estate-The Story of Coollattin House — 67. The Story of Coollattin-The Pursuit of Reynard — 68. The Story of Coollattin-the Pecking Order — 69. The Woodenbridge-Shillelagh Railway Line — 70. The Playing of Cricket at Coollattin — 71. Shillelagh Courthouse-Appearing ‘Under the Fox’ — 72. Shillelagh Workhouse — 73. Lords and Ladies-Coollattin Style — 74. The Famous Chauffeur-Driven Simplex Car at Coollattin — 75. Marriage of Lord Peter to Olive Plunket, April 1933 — 76. Fatal Attraction-the Story of Peter Fitzwilliam and Kathleen Kennedy — 77. Somerset Struben de Chair-Lady Juliet’s Second Husband — 78. A Fitzwilliam Bids Farewell to Coollattin — 79. Carnew Community Care-an Appeal — 80. Bradshaws of Shillelagh — 81. Shillelagh’s Hydro-Electric Station — 82. The Building Yard at Coollattin — 83. Pat Darcy-the Village Blacksmith — 84. The Last Cook at Coollattin — 85. The Workforce in the Building Yard — 86. The Bradshaw Family Remembered — 87. A Shillelagh Miscellany — 88. ‘Patcho’ the Poet — 89. The King and I — 90. The Model Farm — 91. The Forestry Industry — 92. Ardeen Cheshire Home, 1960-2020 — 93. John Wilkinson-a Truly Remarkable Man — 94. St. Aidan’s Hall — 95. St. Aidan’s Hall-More from the Memories of John Wilkinson — 96. Ormonde Cinema…aka Arus Naomh Brigid…aka St. Brigid’s Hall, 1946-2020 — 97. Umrigar Races — 98. Carnew Sports and Cricket Ground — 99. The Liars’ Hole-Revisited.

Extra #1: Each of the 99 postings includes at least one photo or illustration.

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Maple Leaves from the Garden of Ireland

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Cover by Gerardine Cooper Sheridan

Full title: Shoeboxes: from Irish Roots to Canadian Branches

Creator / Author: Kevin Lee and Tom Jenkins

Item Type / Page count: Book / 228pp

When Published: 2022

Publisher / Place of Publication: Coollattin Canadian Connection / Co. Wicklow

About: This is a high-quality publication which traces connections between Canada and South Wicklow, particularly centred on the Coollattin Estate and the assisted emigration programme from the surrounding areas in the first half of the nineteenth-century. The authors provide a well-researched history of Coollattin Estate and outline the circumstances of the ‘perfect storm’ that triggered the leavetaking of some ten thousand people for Canada. A substantial portion of the book provides case studies of over fifty families whose stories are told in words and pictures. A comprehensive contents listing is transcribed below,

ID number(s): 9781399928021

Contents: About the authors — Dedication — Acknowledgements — Photographic Credits Foreword

[SECTION A: Coollattin Defined] [Chapter 1 – Origin of Coollattin Estate] The Garden of Ireland — Anglo-Norman Legacy — Property Portfolio of Thomas Wentworth

[Chapter 2 – Colonisation, Rebellion and Restoration] 1641 Rebellion — Cromwell — Restoration of Title to 2^nd Earl of Strafford — Visit of Thomas Watson-Wentworth 1713

[Chapter 3 – Establishing a Protestant Colony in South Wicklow] Setting of Leases — Hume’s Observations

[SECTION B: The Gathering of a Perfect Storm] [Chapter 4 – Early Famines] Year of Slaughter (Bliain an Air), 1740-1741 — Post-Rebellion Food Shortages — Famine and Typhus, 1817 — Abandonment of Newborn Infants in Carnew — Famine of 1826 — An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine

[Chapter 5 – Role of the Agent in Coollattin] Early Agents: Abraham Nickson, Reverend John Griffith, Hugh Wentworth — William Wainwright — William Haigh — The Chaloners, Robert Sr. and Robert Jr. — Late Nineteenth Century Agents: Frederick Ponsonby, Duncan McNeill, and Frank Brooke — Underagent Ralph Lawrenson

[Chapter 6 – Education] Carnew School — Shillelagh School — Coolroe School — Coolkenno School — Other Schools on the Estate Funded by Earl Fitzwilliam

[Chapter 7 – The Workhouses] Life in the Workhouse — Rathdrum Workhouse — Shillelagh Workhouse

[Chapter 8 – Assisting Emigration] Recruiting the Emigrants — Role of the Clergy in Recruiting Emigrants — Cholera Outbreak of 1832 and the First Assisted Emigrants — Tradesmen and the Famine — Logistics of the Programme — Graves Shipping, New Ross — Last Sight of the Homeland — Passenger Acts — Life at Sea — Death at Sea — Grosse Isle — Journey Inland — Building a New Home — Worlds Apart

[Chapter 9 – Coollattin Enclaves in Ontario] From Carnew to Simcoe County — From Moyne to Grey County — From Boley to Lanark County — From Killinure to Lennox and Addington County — Old Hastings Colonisation Road

[Chapter 10 – Thriving in Canada] A History of Irish Canadian Immigration— Urban Vs. Rural — Irish Need Not Apply — A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

[Chapter 11 – Gaining Influence in Canada] The Social Intersection of Language and Religion — Cutting the Ties to the Old Country to Survive — Irish Benevolent Society — Ogle Robert Gowan: the Carnew Orangeman who influenced Sir John A. Macdonald

[SECTION C: The Shoeboxes] THE FAMILY OF JOHN DOYLE: from the Crab Lane to Camden East — THE CASSIDY FAMILY: from Killinure to Camden Township — THE STORY OF SIMON BYRNE: from Munny Lower to St. John, New Brunswick — THE FAMILY OF LEONARD MYERS: from Tally Ho to Manvers Township, Victoria County — THE BYRNE FAMILY: from Ballykelly to Western Canada — THE FAMILY OF THOMAS KENNY: from Moatabower to Smiths Falls to Omaha, Nebraska — THE FAMILY OF EDWARD BELL: from Carnew to Cincinnati — THE FAMILY OF THOMAS BALFE AND SARAH KENNY: from Kilcavan to South Elmsley — THE FAMILY OF ISAAC FOSTER: from Motabower to Red Deer, Alberta — THE FAMILY OF JOHN FOSTER: from Ballynulta to Camden — JOSEPH DUNN’S PRAYER BOOK: a treasured family heirloom — THE HOPKINS FAMILY: from Corndog to Grey County and beyond — THE JOURNEY OF SAM DUNN: in the footsteps of his forefathers — THE FAMILY OF CHARLES WILLOUGHBY: from Ballinatone, Coollattin to Rockwood, Ontario — THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM WALL AND ANNE LOUGHLIN: from Laragh to Hamilton, Ontario — THE FAMILY OF JOHN AND MARTHA LAWRENCE: from Slieveroe to Glenelg, Ontario — THE FAMILY OF NICHOLAS BAWLF: from Hillbrook to Smiths Falls to Winnipeg — THE GROVES FAMILY: from Aghold Upper to Fergus, Ontario — THE FAMILY OF JOHN POPHAM: from Munny Upper to New Orleand and back — THE ORMOND FAMILY: from Carnew to the Corktown Area of Hamilton, Ontario — THE FAMILY OF ROBERT PRESLEY: return to Motabower after 171 years — THE FAMILY OF PATRICK KEHOE: from “Hot Pot Lane” to Augusta, Ontario — THE FAMILY OF PATRICK McGUIRE: from Shillelagh to Camden East — THE FAMILY OF THOMAS HUTTON: from Sleaghcoyle to Grey County, Ontario — THE FAMILY OF JOSEPH COSGROVE: from “Hot Pot Lane” to Gloucester Township to Iowa — THE FAMILY OF THOMAS BRAZIL: from “Hot Pot Lane” to Carleton County to Kansas — THE DOWSE FAMILY: from Kilninor to Winnipeg and back again — THE FAMILY OF DANIEL KELLY: from Killballyowen to Umfraville — THE OWENS/BYRNE FAMILY: from Tomnafinnogue to Wisconsin — THE HOPKINS FAMILY: from Moylisha to Brownsville to Moose Jaw — THE FAMILY OF JOHN McGRATH: from Killinure to Camden — THE FAMILY OF THOMAS HAYDEN: from Glenphilpeen to Port Hope — NAOMI NIGHTINGALE: the Coollattin cook who emigrated to Montreal — THE CODD FAMILY (aka CODE or COAD): a North American dynasty with Wicklow roots — THE FAMILY OF MICHAEL HENDRICK: from Kennystown to Meech Creek — THE FAMILIES OF WILLIAM BREEN AND MARGARET HEADON: from Ballynulta to Oswago, New York — THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM KELLY: from Ballyconnell to Quebec — THE FAMILY OF DENNIS TOMKINS: from Newtown to Kemptville — THE JAMES FAMILY: from Mungacullin to Lanark County — THE STORY OF WILLIAM YOUNG: an exception to all the rules — THE STORY OF JOHN KENNY AND MARY DEEGAN (nee Shannon): from the Crab Lane to all parts North of Kentucky — THE FAMILY OF BENJAMIN STYLES: from Balisland to Manvers County — THE FAMILY OF JOHN AND CELIA BYRNE: from New Row to Admaston in Renfrew County — THE FAMILY OF NED FINN AND ANNE FINNEGAN: from Knockballystine to Wilkinson — THE FAMILY OF JOHN KAVANAGH (later Cavanaugh): from Killinure to Camden East — THE FAMILY OF JOHN KAVANAGH: from Parkmore to Barrie in Simcoe County — THE FAMILIES OF FRANCIS DUNN, THOMAS GRIFFIN AND ALICE KEEFE: united by their bonds of kinship and their roots in the Wicklow Hills — THE MURPHY FAMILY: from Tomnafinnogue to Dundalk — JERVIS WHITE: from Ballyellis, Carnew to the 30,000 islands of Parry Sound — THE TOOLE (O’TOOLE) FAMILY: from Ballyshonog to Tecumseth County — ELVIS PRESLEY HAD WICKLOW ROOTS: from “The Dying Cow” to Graceland.

[SECTION D: Post-Famine Coollattin] [Chapter 12 – The Built Heritage] Contribution of the 6^th Earl Fitzwilliam — The Woodenbridge Branch Railway — Building Boom

[Chapter 13 – Transfer of the Land to the Occupiers] Land League and Tenant Rights Movement — The 7^th Earl Fitzwilliam — The Wyndham Act — Kilcavan Slate Quarries — Hydro-electricity

[Chapter 14 – Decline and Fall of Coollattin] Tragic Death of Lord Peter, the 8^th Earl Fitzwilliam — Lady Juliet Fitzwilliam

[SECTION E: Reaching Out, Touching Hands] Reunion with my roots / John Hopkins, British Columbia — Our return to Lawrence’s Lane / David Lawrence, Toronto — Journey back to New Row / Jan Fortier, Alberta — “Byrne’s Garden” revisited / Deborak Walsh, South Carolina — New beginnings for both of us. Standing in Handrick’s Field / Larry Carroll, Guelph, Ontario — The Lees of Donaghmore / Pat Lee, Fort Qu’appelle, Saskatchewan, Canada — Return to the land of my ancestors / David Code, California

[SECTION F: Post-Integration] [Chapter 15 – The Irish Define Canada] The Canadian Irish in World War I — The Irish Gain Cultural Power

[Chapter 16 – The Irish Impact on Canadian Culture] Irish Towns Throughout Canada — Irish Family Names Across Canada — From Hurling to Hockey — Canadian Folk Music is Irish — Irish from Sea to Sea to Sea

[Chapter 17 – Rediscovering Irish Roots] The Global Village — A Generation Has Questions — Coollattin Canadian Connection

[APPENDICES] Appendix 1: Coollattin Family Names — Appendix 2: Emigrant Sailings on Graves Ships, 1847-1858 — Appendix 3: Emigrants on Board the Star — Appendix 4: The Coollattin Papers — Appendix 5: Famous Irish Canadians — Appendix 6: Towns With Irish Names in Canada — Appendix 7: Comparable Assisted Emigration Programmes — Appendix 8: Lest We Forget

Bibliography — Index.

Extra #1: Includes over four hundred photographs, maps and other illustrations.

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Tenth Collection of Articles on West Wicklow History

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Full title: Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society: Number 10, 2019

Creator / Author: West Wicklow Historical Society & contributors, joint editors Chris Lawlor, Donal McDonnell

Item Type / Page count: Journal (Complete issue) / 312p

When Published: 2019

Publisher / Place of Publication: West Wicklow Historical Society / Baltinglass (?), Co. Wicklow.

About: This tenth publication of a set of articles on aspects of West Wicklow history is a bumper edition running to a highest-ever total of 312 pages. A diverse range of articles stretch from the Neolithic period to modern times. The areas covered include Baltinglass, Baltyboys, Blessington, Burgage and Glen of Imaal. East Wicklow also gets a look-in as does neighbouring parts of Carlow and Kildare. The most extensive article in this issue is by Kevin Lee which looks at nineteenth-century emigration from the Coolattin district to Canada.

ID number(s): 0790-1739

Contents: Foreword from the Chairman / John A. O’Toole — Ramblings of the Secretary / Donal McDonnell — Editor’s Preface / Chris Lawlor — Archaeological excavations on Baltinglass Hill: an update / Alan Hawkes — Guests of the Crown: Wicklow men in the Curragh internment camps, 1921 / James Durney — Silk manufacturing in Rathmore, County Kildare (1784-1786) / James Robinson — Preaching the suffrage gospel in County Wicklow: a local perspective on the women’s suffrage campaign, 1908-1918 / Rosemary Raughter —Ballymore Eustace woollen mills / Jim Corley — Cecil Frances Alexander and her connection to County Wicklow / Sarah Gillespie — County Kildare during the War of Independence, 1919-1921 / Michael Murphy — Language matters: the importance of Irish in local place-name lore / Ita Roddy — Shops around the Blessington Lake / Séamus Balfe — Flax growing and linen weaving in Imaal in the 1820s / John Hussey — Book Review: John Hussey’s The Quakers of Baltyboys, County Wicklow – 1678 to 1800s / Jim Corley – The land for the people / Joe McArdle — The Boyestowne Lordship: Baltyboys, Tulfarris & Humphreystown 1650-1850 [Part Two] / Brendan Corrigan — William Dargan and the Dublin and Wicklow railway / Andrew Keating — Aspects of life in County Wicklow during the Emergency / James Scannell — Collapse at Burgage / Brian McCabe — ‘He regarded their interests and his own as interwoven’: the impact of the 1903 Wyndham Land Act on the Mansfields of Morristown Lattin, 1903-1929 / Evan Comerford — A listing of some people living on the Baltinglass Estate of the Earl of Aldborough, 1767-1794 / Richard B. Lennon — Macra na Feirme and the origin of secondary education in West Wicklow / P.J. Hanlon — Nineteenth-century emigration from South Wicklow: from Coollattin to Canada / Kevin Lee — Did you ever dance to these bands in Blessington or Manor Kilbride 1971-1973? / Declan O’Connor — Goodbye to Fortgranite, a much-loved family home / Mark Shirley-Beavan — Mullaghmast – early monuments and mythologies / Cora Crampton — Rathvilly Church of Ireland memorial inscriptions from the church and churchyard / Paul Gorry — Baltinglass Bridewell and Courthouse [Part One] / Chris Lawlor — Book Review: Chris Lawlor’s ‘With Much Quiet Fervour’: a brief history of Dunlavin Roman Catholic parish and St. Nicholas of Myra church / Cróna Cassidy.

Extra #1: Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs, maps, drawings and graphs.

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Seeing the Woods AND the Trees

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Full title: If trees could talk: Wicklow’s trees and woodlands over four centuries

Creator / Author: Michael Carey

Item Type / Page count: Book / 290p

When Published: 2009

Publisher / Place of Publication: COFORD National Council for Forest Research and Development / Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Agriculture House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

About: Wicklow is the most forested county in Ireland. This book, which is aimed at a general readership, looks at the historical background to this. It also details the many uses of timber and timber products over the centuries. As well as being a history of Wicklow’s woodlands, it can also be seen somewhat as a history of rural Wicklow itself.

ID number(s): 1902696646

Chapters:  Acknowledgements – Preface – [Section 1. The Woodland Resource] – Historic background – How big was the woodland resource? – Gathering evidence on past woodland cover: Archaeology, Pollen analysis, Documentary record, Ecological survey, Place names, Iconography – Woodland in the ancient past in Ireland and Wicklow – Woodland cover in Wicklow in recent centuries – Visitors’ and commentators’ views on the woodland resource – Woodland cover clues from maps and surveys – Sixteenth and seventeenth century maps and documents – Seventeenth century surveys: The Civil Survey (1654-56), Seventeenth century Shillelagh land resource surveys, Other seventeenth century documentary sources, Survey of the Meath estate 1679 – Eighteenth century surveys: Woodland surveys of the Watson-Wentworth-Fitzwilliam estate (Coolattin estate) 1724-1764 – Miscellaneous eighteenth and nineteenth century maps and paintings: Bayly estate maps, Ballyarthur 1700 and 1810, Tighe estate, Rosanna, Ashford 1756-1820, Jacob Nevill map of Co. Wicklow 1760, Updated Nevill map 1798, Jacob Nevill map of the Powerscourt demesne 1763, Downshire estate maps, Blessington 1785-1806, Early nineteenth century estimate of woodland area (Fraser 1801), Evidence from eighteenth and nineteenth century paintings – The Ordnance Survey 1835-40 – 1841 Census of Ireland – Nineteenth and twentieth century photographic evidence of woodland – Twentieth century surveys: John Nisbet survey 1903 – Woodland expansion and transformation in the twentieth century – Summary – [Section 2. Tree planting over the centuries] Background to tree planting – Legislation on tree planting – The plant hunters – Eighteenth and nineteenth century planting initiatives: The Dublin Society, Tenant tree planting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Tenant tree planting under the Tree Registration Scheme 1788-1905, Estate tree planting in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries- Watson-Wentworth-Fitzwilliam estate, Tighe estate at Rosanna, Ashford 1718-1874, Downshire estate-the Coronation Plantation, Planting at Charleville estate, 1840’s onwards, Kilmacurragh, Killruddery estate, Powerscourt, La Touche, Bellevue, Mount Usher and Glencormac Gardens, John Nisbet survey (nineteenth century estate planting) – Planting in the twentieth century: The Avondale initiative 1905-1915, Other recent twentieth century initiatives – [Section 3. Woodland industries] Introduction – Timber-using sectors: Ship building, House building and firewood, Pipe and barrel staves for the provision trade, Bark for tanning leather, Charcoal and iron smelting – Woodland business at Watson-Wentworth-Fitzwilliam estate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: The estate, Woodland business, Trespass and protection of the coppices, Summary, The twentieth century at the Watson-Wentworth-Fitzwilliam estate – Woodland business at the Tighe estate, Rosanna, Ashford — Woodland business at the Powerscourt estate, Enniskerry — Woodland business at the Ballyarthur estate, Avoca Valley — Woodland business at the Castle Howard estate, Avoca Valley — Woodland business in Wicklow in the twentieth century – Epilogue – Appendix 1 – Appendix 2 – Appendix 3 – Index.

WW Connection #1: Some of the key areas referred to in the text include Kilbride, Russborough, Tulfarris, Rathsallagh, Oakwood, Humewood and Coolattin.

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Extra #3: Includes several colour photographs, maps, other illustrations and tables.

Seventh Collection of Articles on West Wicklow History

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Full title: Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society: Number 7, 2013

Creator / Author: West Wicklow Historical Society & contributors, joint editors Chris Lawlor, Donal McDonnell

Item Type / Page count: Journal (Complete issue) / 120p

When Published: 2013

Publisher / Place of Publication: West Wicklow Historical Society / Baltinglass (?), Co. Wicklow.

About: The seventh publication of a set of articles on aspects of West Wicklow history. This issue contains articles featuring locations from Coolattin to Croatia. It even strays into east Wicklow with an article on Charles Stewart Parnell and his times by Mary Bergin. However, the major article runs to almost a quarter of the entire publication and is a substantial essay, by Dunlavin native Chris Lawlor, on Feagh Mac Hugh O’Byrne.

ID number(s): 0790-1739

Contents: Preface from the Chairman — Ramblings of the Secretary — A man of integrity? The varying roles of Robert Chaloner, Earl Fitzwilliam’s land-agent during Black ‘47 / Fidelma Byrne — Contextualising a chieftain’s career: the case of Feagh Mac Hugh O’Byrne / Chris Lawlor – Wicklow Farm Labourers: a facet of the 1880s Land War / Pádraig G. Lane — The RIC and the IRA in Wicklow’s War of Independence / Kevin Cullen — Constable James Stephen Cunningham and his family / Shay Cunningham — Some facts about the activities of Mark Forstall in Croatia / Luka Vukusic – Scurlock’s Graveyard / Brian McCabe — The annual inspections of the Dublin & Blessington Steam Tramway Company in 1912 and 1913 / James Scannell — Donard’s New Church, 1925 [from the Leinster Leader Saturday, 18^th July, 1925] — The Wicklow landlord who held sway over the British Empire: Parnell and his times / Mary Bergin — Raids, robberies and attacks: West Wicklow during the Civil War / Jason Lawlor.

Extra #1: Contains several black & white photographs and maps.

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Demolition Disallowed

© Wicklow County Council

Full title: Record of Protected Structures Wicklow….

Creator / Author: Wicklow County Council

Item Type / Page count: Books / ebooks / 77-79pp each

When Published: 2010-2022

Publisher / Place of Publication: Wicklow County Council / Wicklow.

Parent Publication [book]: Wicklow County Development Plans 2010-2028

About: These comprehensive listings and brief descriptions of more than 500 protected structures are published as part of each iteration of Wicklow County Development Plans covering the period 2010 to 2028.  The listings cover all types of structures including private houses, country houses, rectories, churches, commercial buildings, bridges, schools, pubs, hotels, street furniture etc.

ID number(s): None

Contents: Each entry is arranged under Ref. No. / OS Map Ref. / Building Address / Structure / Townland / Description. Each entry is accompanied by a colour photograph.

Extra #1: View / Download the full text of the 2022-2028 publication via Wicklow.ie website.

Extra #2: View / Download the full text of the 2016-2022 publication via Wicklow.ie website.

Extra #3: View / Download the full text of the 2010-2016 publication via Wicklow.ie website.

Update note: This page last updated April 2024

O Come All Ye Faithful!

 

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Full title: A farewell to famine

Creator / Author: Jim Rees

Item Type / Page count: Book / 174p

When Published: 1994

Publisher / Place of Publication: Arklow Enterprise Centre / North Quay, Arklow, Co. Wicklow.

About: In the mid-nineteenth century, the Bishop of Little Rock wanted to set up an Irish Catholic colony in Arkansas. This was during the Irish Famine Period, and the people who set out from South Wicklow and North Wexford were not necessarily fleeing the Famine. The group were led by Father Thomas Hore and this book charts their none-too-smooth progress as the original grouping of around 1,000 splintered up and ended up in various different locations in the USA.

ID number(s): 0952202956 / o952202905

Contents: Lists of sponsors — Prologue — The shaping of Thomas Hore — Coolattin Estate — Disaster — Bishop Byrne of Arkansas — The Melleray Connection — Farewell to famine — Liverpool – the emigrants’ limbo — Water, water everywhere… — New Orleans to Little Rock — Fort Smith — Plan B — Conclusion — Appendix 1: The Refugio Connection — Appendix 2: Passengers who travelled on the ‘Ticonderoga’, ‘Loodianah’ and the ‘Chasca’ — Chronology — Notes — Bibliography — List of subscribers.

WW Connection #1: Many of the emigrants hailed from South and South-West Wicklow.

Extra #1: includes photographs, illustrations and maps.

Extra #2: includes the names of 847 people who emigrated.

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No Room on the Estate

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Full title: Surplus people: the Fitzwilliam Clearances 1847-1856

Creator / Author: Jim Rees

Item Type / Page count: Book / 156p (168p)

When Published: 2000 (Re-issued 2014)

Publisher / Place of Publication: The Collins Press / West Link Park, Doughcloyne, Wilton, Cork.

About: During the Irish Famine Period, a number of landlords persuaded or coerced their tenants into emigrating from Ireland. In West Wicklow, a major clearance of about 6,000 persons took place from the Coolattin Estate of Lord Fitzwilliam. These men, women and children ended up in the Canadian districts of Quebec and New Brunswick. This book details the circumstances of the clearout and gives some account of how the displaced families managed in Canada.

ID number(s): 1898256934 / 9781898256939 / 9781848892040

Contents: Introduction — Coolattin Estate — Life on the Coolattin Estate 1830-1845 — The Poor Law — Crisis: 1845-6 — Shedding the Surplus — Life in the ‘Tween Decks — Quebec — New Brunswick — 1850-6 — Conclusion — Appendices — Endnotes — Bibliography.

WW Connection #1: The Coolattin Estate comprised 80,000 acres in South-West Wicklow and amounted to around one-fifth of the total area of County Wicklow.

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Third Collection of Articles on West Wicklow History

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Full title: Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society: Number 3, 1989

Creator / Author: West Wicklow Historical Society & contributors.

Item Type / Page count: Journal (Complete issue) / 96p

When Published: 1989

Publisher / Place of Publication: West Wicklow Historical Society / Baltinglass (?), Co. Wicklow.

About: The third publication of a set of articles on aspects of West Wicklow history. This issue covers some of the main locations within the boundaries but also widens the area of interest to include Ballymore Eustace and Rathvilly.

ID number(s): 0790-1739

Contents: West Wicklow Historical Society 1989 Officers — Editorial / Joseph Rattigan — The Society’s Report / Maeve Baker — Appreciation: Paddy Byrne — William Gabriel Lyons — Tommy Bourne — Extracts from a Diary of 1869: a Wicklow Man Returns for a Bride / Richard Douglas — A Description of Dunlavin from Slater’s Directory, 1881 / John Lynott — Wicklow Biographies: No.8: Fiach Mac Hugh Ó Byrne / Cora Crampton — Wicklow Biographies No.9: James Eustace , 3rd Viscount Baltinglass / Cora Crampton[?] — The Famine in Wicklow, 1846-1847: Extracts from British Parliamentary Papers in the National Library of Ireland / Compiled by Maeve Baker — Irish-French Quaker Connections / Margaret P. O’Hare — Marriage in Ireland Before the Famine: Case Study of Rathvilly Parish / Susan E. Hood — Baltinglass of Yesteryear [poem] / Ben Dwyer — Tinahely Over the Centuries / Reverend Canon Henry Vaux Boake — The Hollywood Highwayman / Dorothy Leonard — Bacon Curing in Baltinglass in the Early Part of the Century / Maureen D’arcy — Ballymore Eustace : Odds and Ends of its History / Michael Dore — Grangecon : a Place Remembered / Lil Moore — Book Reviews / Joseph Rattigan — Index to the Coolattin Estate Emigration Records, 1847-58, Part 3 / Paul Gorry — List of Members.

Extra #1: Contains black & white photographs, illustrations and maps.

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Second Collection of Articles on West Wicklow History

© WWHS

Full title: Journal of the West Wicklow Historical Society: Number 2, 1985-1986

Creator / Author: West Wicklow Historical Society & contributors.

Item Type / Page count: Journal (Complete issue) / 88p

When Published: 1985 /6

Publisher / Place of Publication: West Wicklow Historical Society / Baltinglass (?), Co. Wicklow.

About: The second publication of a set of articles on aspects of West Wicklow history. This issue covers locations from Blessington to Tinahely with contributions from natives of the area and other historians.

ID number(s): 0790-1739

Contents: West Wicklow Historical Society 1985 Officers — Honorary Life Members of WWHS — Ireland’s First Aviator – a Baltinglass man? — Editorial / Maria Brosnan — Main st. (South side) Baltinglass 1894 (compiled from Land Valuation Office Revision Books and Slater’s Directory of Ireland 1894) / Paul Gorry — The Society’s Report / Maeve Baker — He lived in the Slaney / Jerome Keogh — Kilcommon Church of Ireland School, Tinahely / H. B. Weir — A Cemetary Cairn at Carrig, Blessington, Co. Wicklow / Theo Clarke — Michael Dwyer in Captivity / Con Costello — ‘Kilranelagh’, a poem / James J. Doyle (1869-1916) — The Valentine Family -Part 2: The Valentines of Donard / Paul Gorry & Anthony E. S. Valentine — Some West Wicklow Memorial Inscriptions / Brian Cantwell — Merginstown School, Dunlavin / Maura Kelly — Wicklow Biographies: No.5: Mór Ó Toole / Danny Boland — Wicklow Biographies No.6: Albina Ó Molloy / Cora Crampton — Wicklow Biographies: No.7: Thomas Eustace, 1st Viscount Baltinglass / Cora Crampton — Fishing for Pearl in the King’s River / Maria Brosnan — The Greenes and Kilranelagh House / Paul Gorry — The Railway Children (the Cott Family) / Liam Kenny — Aspects of the Land War at Local Level, Phase One: 1879-1882 / Joseph Rattigan — Local Agricultural Methods c.1803 / Paul Baker — The Homes of Imaal, a poem / Jerome Keogh — Graney / Dorothy Leonard — Index to the Coolattin Estate Records, 1847-56, Part 2 / Paul Gorry — Thirty Five Years in West Wicklow (“Going to the Country”) / Rhoda Byrne — Appreciations: John Ó Donovan, Jimmy Nolan of The Wood, Joseph Morrin — Book Reviews / Joseph Rattigan and Paul Gorry — List of Members.

Extra #1: Contains black & white photographs and cover illustrations.

Extra #2: Check Libraries Ireland for this publication.

Extra #3: Check OCLC WorldCat.org for this publication in libraries worldwide.

Extra #4: Link to the full text of this issue online via West Wicklow Historical Society website

Hat-Tip: To the West Wicklow Historical Society who have arranged for the digitisation of this issue of their Journal and its free accessibility online.