Number 67, 2019. €15.00
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Message from President 3
Contributors 4
Book Reviews 5
Lectures 2019/2019 7
Society Tours 2018 and Obituaries 8
Committee 2019 and Officers 10
Knockaunarelic Burial Ground, Conservation and Survey by Dr. Séamus Ó Murchú 11
The Archaeology of the Blackstairs Mountains by Dr. Séamus Ó Murchú 13
The Chancellorship of Medieval Leighlin by Niall C.E.J. O'Brien 31
No Winners: The disastrous Carlow Campaign of King Richard II by Christopher Power 35
Ballymoon Castle Research Project by Nial O'Neill 42
The Lost Colony, Carlow's Huguenot Heritage by John Kelly 47
Quaker Emigration from Carlow to New Garden, Pennsylvania by Myra Kavanagh 57
The Strange Military Career of Michael Bowles by Tom La Porte 61
Extracts from Finn's Leinster Journal 1792-1795 by Sean O'Shea 65
An account of a true Irish woman by Denise Murphy 72
A famous Carlow family archive – a fresh assessment of the Jackson Collection by Christopher Power 77
The Royal Oak Village by Myles Kavanagh 83
The Old Lanes and Streets of Carlow by Dan Carbery, Paul Lyons & Pat O'Neill 97
A Weaver's Trail by Mary Stratton Ryan 101
Is Graiguecullen situated in the County of Carlow or Laois? by Sean O'Shea 113
Bishop Daniel Delany and the Jesuits by Bro. Stephen Sweetman FSP 116
Killinure and the Fitzwilliam Estate: 1800-1864 by Oliver Whelan 124
Musings on Lisnavagh – Irish Farmers Gazette (1857) & Lord Rathdonnell by Turtle Bunbury 134
St Mary's Church, Bennekerry, Carlow by John Browne 139
The Red Lad's Recollections of Hacketstown in the 1890s by Patrick M. Byrne 143
The Carlow ANZAC War Dead by Jackie Greene 147
W.T. Cosgrave – The Carlow Connection by John O'Donovan 156
From Home Rule toward Independence: Changing Attitudes in Carlow 1914-18 by Kevin Anthony 160
Two Sketches of Carlow Castle and Bridge from 1795 and c.1810 164
Carlow and the 1918 General Election by Dr Elaine Callinan 165
Schools Prize Winner 2018 – St Dympna's Hospital by Matthew Ellis 169
Fr Joseph Fenelon OFM CAP by Myles Kavanagh 171
The Films of Annie D'Alton by Dr Shay Kinsella 175
John Kinsella and the foundation of the Regional Technical Colleges by Norman McMillan and Martin Nevin 187
History of RTC & ITC – Computing, an interview with Austin Kinsella by Norman McMillan and Martin Nevin 194
Tullow Lawn Tennis Club by Christopher P. McQuinn 198
The Ridge of the Raven, Chapter 6. The Sacrifice by Liam O'Neill 205
Four thousand year old Ballybit Bowl returns to County Carlow by Dermot Mulligan and Isabella Mulhall 213