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Bernard Healy From the Civil Register of Deaths (Carlow) - Died 6th June 1953, aged 74 at Killenane, William Kelly. Death reported by Mary Kelly (Daughter)

Bernard Healy excellent

National Library of Ireland on The Commons I found out a bit more today. Looking though the Nationalist & Leinster Times I find evidence of the Kelly Family being there from 1914 onwards. They pop up advertising livestock & land to rent, etc, pretty frequently. There seem to be two farmers operating out of Killinane House - William & John, sometimes John P Kelly. The latter was also an agent buying pigs for the Irish Co-op Meat Ltd from the mid 1920s. On 23/10/1926 there is an obituary (with maddening little detail) for Mrs Mary Kelly of Killinane House who died aged 86 on 14/10/1926. Her death cert described her as widow to a farmer & the death was reported by her son John Kelly. The age I have for William Kelly at his death & for Mary Kelly, leads me to conclude that at the time of the 1911 Census, the Kelly family were resident in Ballyteigelea in Borris. Here is the Census form.

Sorry, I’ll post that URL properly: www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001662359/

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

Great resolution and detail, fresh image.

Streetview 2011: goo.gl/maps/4QNASDXMMXP2

I see a droopy electric streetlamp, which might date the photo to a little later than "1900". With megazoom™ you can even see the wires !

"Leverett & Frye, 56 Dublin Street, Carlow was an upmarket general grocery shop and bar, which began trading in the 1900s and continued to do so up to the early 1970s when it was converted into a bar." www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/Carlow_images_03.htm

According to www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/Carlow_1920.htm, the Provincial Bank was built in 1901.