Tag: Baltinglass

County Carlow, County Kildare, County Wexford, County Wicklow, Ireland Census Substitutes

Ireland Census Substitutes: Misc. 1840s-1870s, Counties Carlow, Kildare, Wexford and Wicklow

Meeting, petition, collection and subscription lists for various causes and funds in Counties Carlow, Kildare, Wicklow and Wexford, 1847-1876. All list donors of small amounts and include labourers and tradesmen, not just landholders or gentry. Areas included: Ballyhogue, Annacurra/Tinahely, Baltinglass, Castledermot. Addresses are given for most individuals in the lists. 1993 Names. Transcribed by Erika Ward Lopresti

County Wicklow, Kavanagh, Styles

The Styles Family, The Land War, and the shooting by Rev Usher of Baltinglass

“Margaret Styles, examined by Mr. McInerney, said she saw the Rev. Mr. Usher and Martin Flinter running on the night of the 26th of August. The Rev. Mr. Usher cried “stand” and then he fired and said, “Now, I have you.” There was another shot fired in the lane. There were three shots fired altogether.”

New York, Styles

The Styles Family comes to America – Baltinglass to Auburn, New York

On 12 Nov 1888, Edward and Margaret Styles arrived in New York on the SS Adriatic with their five youngest children: William, Edward, Mary, Margaret and Thomas. The four older Styles children Robert, James, Anna and Katherine had emigrated from Ireland one at a time to find work in Auburn, New York, sending their earnings home to Baltinglass for their siblings and parents.

Kavanagh, Styles

Kavanagh Family of Carrigeen and Graney, County Kildare

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Using Griffith’s Valuation, I was able to find the exact location of James Kavanagh’s farm in 1854. My sister and I visited Baltinglass last month in June 2016. The very kind residents of Carrigeen showed us the location of the house, demolished in the 1960s that the Kavanaghs and Whiteheads occupied in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Kavanagh, Styles

Styles Family of Baltinglass, County Wicklow

At the far end of the lane sit the ruins of Baltinglass Abbey. Established in 1148, the stone walls and arches are as much a part of the landscape as the hills behind it. Rising from the center of the Abbey are ruins from a later time, the tower of the former Church of Ireland parish church built in 1815, which would have been in use when the Styles family lived on Church Lane.