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From: "MBrennan" <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] Carlow town Heritage
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 17:15:57 -0000
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Michelle

Look on further: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcar2/Carlow_images_index.htm
feast your eyes on this lot.


Regards & A Very Happy New Year for 2007

Michael

Home Page: www.brennan-laois.com
Carlow IGP: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcar2

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Wilson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] Carlow town Heritage


>I read your e-mail with extreme interest. I never knew anything about that
> old jail or any of the items you mentioned when I wandered around Dublin a
> few years ago walking on some of the streets that my ancestors lived on in
> the late 1700 and early 1800's. If I passed these things I never was
> aware
> of them. I wish you would write a history of the place for all of us
> uninitiated and if any pictures are available post them.
>
> Thanks for all your knowledge
> Michelle Wilson
> Green Mountains of Vermont
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Carlowman
> Date: 01/06/07 08:37:09
> To:
> Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] Carlow town Heritage
>
> We keep looking backwards but don't do enough to preserve what we have (or
> had until recently)
>
> The old swimming club changing room on the Barrow track and the Guinness
> barge store on the Barrow track have been demolished. No one in authority
> in
> the town seems to care about the heritage. When you think the old prison
> block from 1798 across the road from what was Thomas Thompson's was
> levelled
> years ago.
> Photos of these are on Michael Brennan's web site.
> Has anyone a picture of the old diving board that was outside the swimming
> changing rooms? (was there two boards ?)
>
> Can anyone organise...
> 1.. The removal of the Horses heads and Stag head from the gates of the
> old
> Jail (Superquinn) They were put up By Thompsons and were not part of the
> original edifice. Or at least repaint them to blot out the mad stare in
> their eyes. (maybe they could be returned to Ducket's Grove !)
> 2.. Arrange a tourist plaque to inform people of the history of the place,
> point out the Gibbet slot in the key stone and the infill below the window
> where the trapdoor was wheeled out for public executions, maybe even
> mention
> some of the poor souls that were executed (e.g. Lucy Sly) there and their
> victims. Is the trapdoor still in the Museum? The condemned cell was on
> the
> first floor of the gateway.
>
> Also can anyone find out
> 1.. Did anyone hold on the windowsill of the old male prison block that
> some
> poor inmate had hollowed out a hiding place for a clay pipe?
> 2.. Has anyone a photograph of the old punishment cell that had an
> external
> door at yard level and was so small that one could not stand up or lie
> down
> in it.
> 3.. Where did the old (for want of a better description) "cannon guns" go
> that adorned the front steps of the main building inside the gates ?
> By the way Thompsons have now gone full circle and are back in New Gardens
> Thomas Thompson wrote to potential clients from "Newgarden" near Carlow in
> 1877
> They moved to Hanover works in 1904, the Gotham golf club was one of the
> many buildings in the Carlow area constructed by them.
>
> PP
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