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Holy Cross Church,
Killeshin
Photo by W. Muldowney
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Photo by Carloman
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- Holy Cross Church, Killeshin
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Photo by W. Muldowney
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D. O. M.
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To the memory of
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the rev. Michael McDonald
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who having erected this Chapel and
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improved by his labours and example
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the morals and piety of this parish
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Died the 13th of May
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lamented by a grateful people
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in the 7th yr of his ministry and 32nd of his age.
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This monument was erected by the Right. Rev. Dor. Doyle
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A.D. 1823
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- Old Church
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- Old Church
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KILLESHIN & GRAIGUE
according to the
LEWIS TOPOGRAPHICAL
DICTIONARY
OF
IRELAND 1837
by Samuel Lewis
KILLESHIN, a parish, in the barony of SLIEUMARGUE,
QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER; containing, with a part
of the suburbs of Carlow, called Graigue, 5152 inhabitants. It
comprises 10,529 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act,
and valued at £7765 per annum; and, with the exception of about 40
acres of woodland and 200 of bog, consists of arable and pasture
land: the agriculture is good; and the mountains, which rise 1000
feet above the river Barrow, are cultivated to their summits.
Sandstone and limestone are found here, and extensive collieries
are worked by H. Fitzmaurice, Esq. There were formerly
smelting-furnaces, which were discontinued for want of fuel. The
principal seats are Springhill, the residence of -- Laforell,
Esq.; and Ardcleagh, of H. Fitzmaurice, Esq. The living is a
rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Leighlin; the rectory is
in the patronage of the Crown, and the vicarage in that of the
Bishop, but they are held by one incumbent; the tithes amount to
£461. 10. 9 1/4. The church is modern and has an arched stone
roof, like St. Keirn's chapel at Glendalough's and those of St.
Cormac at Cashel and St. Doulough near Dublin: the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners have lately granted £131 for its repair. In the R.
C. divisions this parish is the head of a union or district,
comprising also the parish of Slatey, and has chapels at Graigue
and Killeshin, the latter of which stands on an artificial mound
and has octagon towers at the corners. About 270 children are
educated in three public, and about 150 in six private schools.
Here is a very strong chalybeate spring, which was formerly in
high repute. The ruins of the ancient parish church have an
ornamented entrance, which is encircled with an illegible
inscription in ancient Irish characters; and near it is the site
of an ancient round tower, also the remarkable "Cut of Killeshin,"
which is a pass on the road from Carlow to the collieries, carried
through a lofty hill for more than half a mile, and from 10 to 40
feet deep and 21 wide. Within the parish are some ruins which seem
to be the foundations of the public buildings of an ancient town.
At Old Derig was the residence of Dr. James Doyle, R. C. bishop of
Kildare and Leighlin, where his letters signed J. K. L. were
written..
GRAIGUE, a suburb of the town of CARLOW, in the parish
of KILLESHIN, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER; containing
1976 inhabitants. It is situated on the right bank of the river
Barrow, over which there is a bridge into the town of Carlow, but
is entirely exempt from the jurisdiction of the sovereign of that
borough, although included within its limits for electoral
purposes by the act of the 2nd and 3rd of William IV., cap. 89. It
comprises 114 acres, and includes 234 houses, a large flour-mill,
two tanyards, and a distillery which manufactures more than 36,000
gallons of whiskey annually. It is a constabulary police station,
and has fairs on Jan. 6th, Feb. 18th, April 1st, and Oct. 6th. The
parochial church (a handsome new building with a curious arched
roof of stone), the R. C. chapel, and the parochial and national
schools, are in the village; near which about 600 of the men who
were killed in the attack upon Carlow, in 1798, were buried.
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