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Streetview They're called "The Bungalows" on the OSI 25".

According to Wikipedia a bungalow, an Indian word, means: Built in the Bengali style "A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is either single-storey or has a second storey built into a sloping roof (usually with dormer windows) and may be surrounded by wide verandas ....and was popular with the Arts and Crafts movement."

According to the Newry Reporter of May 31st. 1897, the bungalows were just nearing completion. They were being built by the London and North-Western Company.

The NIAH calls them "single storey with attic" in its entries (1, 2, 3, 4)

NIAH www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13831... says 1895, perhaps that was the start date. Built as holiday homes. They appear unoccupied, as yet. Must have been a new design for us at that time to merit a photo. However, nowadays the bungalow is the most common type to be seen in the Irish countryside, particularly since the "Tiger" days.. And I don't mean a Bengal tiger.

If my memory serves me the monks at the new Abbey used to make marmalade on a commercial scale in the 1970s The new Abbey some 3 or 4 miles from this site was set up in 1938 with foundation stone blessed in 1957.

Mr French's transport (see note) has "57" painted on the rear - see - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000325146 That six-storey mill on the left appears to have had trouble; not even a pile of rubble there now.

No similar angle in streetview, but it does walk right into the ruins in abbeyview

OSI is still not generating links, but the most obvious change is the mill building at left, which is completely gone now.

Useful map via Marc Hagen

Contemplation and Easter were both themes in an article in Carlow Sentinel - Saturday 24 February 1844

A VISIT TO OLD LEIGHLIN THE CATHEDRAL What a venerable object is the old cathedral church! -What sources for contemplation does its time-honoured presence afford!

after which the writer shares lengthy contemplations with us, but then rather fittingly for this time of year,

And upon this spot it was that, no less than twelve centuries ago, the congregated chiefs of the Irish heirarchy assembled in council to discuss no less important a question than the proper period for the celebration of Easter.

followed by several hundred words detailing 7th century church politics. Rather more prosaically, the writer mentions "the completion of its late repairs.". EDIT: these repairs included removing a spire and building a wall to keep pigs out of the graveyard. Several hundred words later, back to contemplation

Its situation in a quiet nook, defended from the blasts, and secluded from the busy world, is such as the most desiring retiree could desire

The 1844 external description is:

The structure, built after the plainest Gothic model, consists of a nave and chancel, united by a square belfry tower of considerable dimensions, and from the north project two roofless structures, apparently more ancient than the present building

More repairs in 1865: Carlow Sentinel - Saturday 25 November 1865.

the side-aisle, hitherto in a state of comparative ruin, has been newly roofed and restored. One other part of this ancient building, however, still remains in a roofless and almost ruinous state

The lady chapel was reinstated about 5 or 6 years* ago. I sang at the opening ceremony for it. Bruckner's Christus Factus Est, and for some reason, as far as I remember (which may be extremely badly) also Bear Necessities, and a few other bits and bobs. *I'm old, any my perception of how long ago anything was may be a bit flawed.

Streetview At the NIAH: Reroofed c. 1899