This page contains a list of some of
the Traders
and Shop Keepers who were trading in Carlow town in the 1920's
Tullow Street
- Smyth's - Boot Shop
- Cathy Hoey's - Stationery shop
- Michael King - Public House
- Oliver's Butchers
- Michael Molly MP owned three shops in Tullow
Street
- John O'Brien - Furniture Repairer and French
Polisher
- Miss Tracey's - Boot Shop
- Corcorans - Sweet Shop
- Walsh - Boot Maker
- Tom Doran's - Outfitters
- Timmons - Garden Produce
- Boake's - Bakers
- Tynan's Hotel
Bolgers Hotel / The Munster & Leinster Bank (This
building was later owned by Patrick Lawler who operated a
Bacon-Curing business and a Wine & Spirit shop in 1911). The
building was demolished in 1973 to make way for another Irish Bank.
- Walsh - Drapery
- Nicholas Roach - Motor Cars, Lorries and Cycles
- Garda Barracks (Police Station)
- 31 Tullow Street - Finegan's - Grocery & Public
House
- The Foley Brothers have renamed McDonalds 'The
Old House'
- J. C. Lawler - Draper & Haberdashery
- John Bowe
- Misses Mahers (This property was used during the
War of Independence as an Irish Republic Army meeting place).
- Dinty Delaney - Public House
- 135 Tullow Street - Colgans - Stationery, Toys
and Newsagency
- Hadden's - Drapery Stores
MARKET CROSS
- Michael Byrne - Bacon curer & Lard refiner
- Duggan's - Grocery shop
CASTLE STREET
- Governey's - Boot shop
- Miss Murphy's - Hairdressing Salon
DUBLIN STREET 1900's
- No. A1 Sticky Back - Photographer's
- McGrath - Medical Hall formally The Red Cow Inn.
- Brennan Bros - Butchers
- 19-20 Dublin Street - Coleman's Garage (This is
one of the oldest established family businesses in Ireland. They
have been in existence for over two hundred years).
- McNally - Chemist
- Sugar Bowl - Cafe
- Post Office
- Roche's - Drapery shop
- Ewin's Restaurant
- 50 Dublin Street - Cigar Divan - Cigarettes,
Cigars, Pipes, Newspapers, Sweets (There are only two Cigar Divan's
in the whole of Ireland; the second one is in Cork. The Carlow shop
is the oldest.
- 53 Dublin Street - Bergin - Public House
- Cunningham's - Ladies & Gents Hairdressers.
- 16 Dublin Street - McElwee's - Newsagents
- Paddy Kinsella's - Radio shop
- Olivers - Butchers
- Begley - Tailors
- Patrick Bourke - Wool Merchant
- P.J. Byrne - Solicitor
- Royal Hotel formally known as The Kings Arms
Hotel. The Royal Arms Hotel, The Queens Arms Hotel, and Cullens
Hotel
- Next door to the Royal Hotel was a Tobacco shop
c1913
- Stanley Johnson - Home Bakery
- Hugh McDonald - Solicitors
- Godfrey McDonald - Architect
- Vogue - Hairdressing salon (Owned by Irene Burke)
- Aidan Walsh - Veterinary surgeon
- Mr Tucker - Dentist Surgery
- Dr. Larry Doyle - Dispensary Doctor
44 Dublin Street - Francis McAnally - Pharmaceutical &
Dispensing Chemist shop. Oculist's prescriptions and spectacles were
also sold. Unfortunately this shop front was replaced in 1953 with a
more modern exterior of the time. During the War of Independence a man
know as Liam Leahy worked here as a chemists assistant. Leahy was the
undercover name used by Liam Stack, who was the Officer-in-charge of the
local Irish Republican Army Units. Liam married a local girl Sarah
Reynolds of the Courthouse. Later he was promoted to the rank of Chief
Superintendent in the newly formed police force, the Garda Síochána.
- 57 Dublin Street - The Provincial Bank (built 1901)
- 56 Dublin Street - Leverett and Frye
- 58 Dublin Street - William Duggan - Stationery & Toy
shop
- 59 Dublin Street - William Duggan - Wine Merchant and
Whisky Bonder
- Both 58 & 59 Dublin Street were once Stagecoach Inns
known as The Crown & Sceptre and the Blackamoor Head Inn. Today the
Blackamoor continues under the name "The Beams".
- William Kennedy - Public House
- William Douglas - House Furnisher
- John McQuaide - Home
- John McQuaide - Book shop
- National Bank
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Carlow County Council
Resolution 1920