Number 12 2015. €10.00
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Canon Philip Moore: historian, antiquarian and folklore collector by Fearghus Ó Fearghail 10
‘The Kilkenny Hunt' by Martin O'Hara with Notes by Caroline Corballis 29
Bennettsbridge GAA – the early years by Seamus Cleere 35
Diary of a working girl in Thomastown: Comerford’s Bakery by Joan Cleere 38
The graveyard and memorials of the Collegiate Church of St Mary's, Gowran, county Kilkenny by Mary Casteleyn and Bernie Kirwan 51
My first school manager by Eddie Kennedy 83
Inistioge town, county Kilkenny, in the early nineteenth century by Marilyn Silverman 85
‘For Valour’: William Dowling VC, of Thomastown by Berni Egan 106
A Census of Protestants in Kilmoganny, county Kilkenny, 1843 by Michael O'Dwyer 115
‘The Champions of 1944’ with notes by Peggy Walpole 121
St Mary's Church, Thomastown: from the nineteenth-century archives by Joe Doyle 126
Irish Legion officers of Kilkenny origin 1803-15: William Hoyne (1768-1844) by Nicholas Dunne-Lynch 139
‘The Road of the Eastern World' by Seamus Moylan 171
Escape from Carrickshock to Newfoundland. A dramatic episode in the ‘Tithe Wars' (1830-36) by Patricia Cullen 175
The returns for the townland of Castlegarden from the 1901 and 1911 censuses by Will Murphy 184
Local farming practices in the post-Famine period by Michael Holden 188
Book reviews 199