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From: "Michael Brennan" <>
Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] Palatine?
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:46:13 +0100
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Hi Tom.

Great to see you back with us again.

You mentioned Palatine in your query. There is a small piece on Palatine on
the Carlow website which you will find at the following location:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcar2/palatine.htm

Regards

Michael Brennan

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom LaPorte" <>
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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] New items on the website


> Those pages are a well deserved tribute to one man who could see the
> value of preserving Carlow's history for future generations. Not too
> many had that foresight! I was also impressed by his activism in the
> Republic's formative years. I hadn't known anything about that part of
> his story so I found them very interesting.
>
> Two interests came to my mind from that page. It mentions Palatine
> outside Carlow town. Was that named after the Palatinate settlers from
> Germany who settled in Ireland? I had never heard of their connection
> with Carlow before.
>
> I was also interested in the reference to the Foresters. I have a very
> old porcelain piece which my Grandmother claimed came from Ireland in
> 1819 with my Bowles ancestor who was apparently a Forester. It portrays
> two Foresters, one holding a bow and the other holding a large stick.
> It's a very crude piece compared to the slicker porcelain pieces of the
> late 1800's but I've never believed that it was really that old. After
> reading about the Foresters history in Ireland maybe I'll have to have
> that piece dated after all. Would anyone know anything about porcelain?
>
> Tom
>



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