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From: "Carlowman" <>
Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] Galbraith Grave
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:02:34 -0000
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While I can not match Suzie Warren's details you may be interested in the following excerpt from..

THE TOPOGRAPHY OF CARLOW TOWN

>From A Paper By M.C. Douglas (Feis Programme 1950)

Reproduced in The Carlow Advertiser, Thursday , 8th may 1986 Page 3



"The late Rev. J.F. Shearman, in "Loca Patriciana, " , states that St. Comghall who lived in the 6th Century, established a monastic Church in Carlow on the site given him by "Cormac of By Bairrche". In old "Itineraries" there is reference to the ruins of a "very fine Abbey in Carlow. This Abbey stood on Castle BiU and must have been of some considerable size, for the compiler of "The Post Chaise Companion" etc. in 1786, states that near the Abbey "is a small Protestant Church". The Abbey was known as "St. Mary's Abbey" .Could it have been on the site of St. Comghall's Church?

Not a vestige of the building now remains. The ruthless hand of the vandal, and the march of civilisation which is, in many cases, the horror of the antiquary, have removed every trace, save the burial ground, which extended to near Graigue Bridge. The lowering of the "hill", the widening of the streets, and the erection of houses, have left but a hillock on which 'a few graves remain, and portion of one old altar tomb .

Rev. J .F .Shearman mentions also that , before St. Comghall erected his church , Carlow the residence of a recluse named Croine Beg, daughter of Sedna, a descendant of Nial of the Nine Hostages. Her memory was kept alive in the town ; for a narrow lane that led from Church Street towards the quay, by Mr. McDonnell's wall in Hay Market, bore for centuries the name of "Templcroney Lane" , afterwards changed to "Fairy Lane" .The houses having been levelled in that locality to make way for the present Hay Market, the identity of the old lane was lost."



I remember my Late Mother refering to the area as "Templcroney".



See aerial photo graph attached indicating the area mentioned



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