"Failte Go Ceatharlach"

"Welcome to Carlow"

Submitted by Margo Hearns-Brown in Jan 2007 formerly of Graiguecullen

Image taken in 1983.

Athy Road. Carlow c.1900 Postcard.

The Post Office and other Government Buildings in Kennedy Street, Carlow c1990. Postcard.

Kennedy Avenue, Carlow. In the background you can see the Post Office

Donated by "Carloman"

PENNEYS store in Hanover Park, Carlow

(Photo W. Muldowney c2006)

The Burrin and Kennedy Avenue

(Photo W. Muldowney c2006)

The River Burren in Carlow

Photo source - Bill Muldowney

This is the lock gates at Rathvinden near Leighlinbridge. The house in the background was built c1790. It is now derelict.

Carlow College, (St. Patrick's College) College Street, Carlow.

Source: The Nationalist c.2009

CARLOW sport

Carlow Hunt 1913

This picture was probably taken a short time prior to the start of the 1st World War and was probably the last time the Carlow Hunt met here. It is topical now as on that site the new extension to the Sacred Heart Home is being constructed. It was there that the United Irishmen were publicly flogged and tortured after the 1798 Insurrections. It was also used as an exercise ground for prisoners awaiting trial during the troubled periods before and after the Treaty.

The different British regiments which were stationed there used it for different training purposes up to the beginning of 1922.

 

Photo by courtesy of Sister M. Vianney, Sacred Heart Home, Carlow.

The River Burren. This is a view taken from or near the bridge on Kennedy Avenue that leads to the old Quinnsworth shopping centre which Penneys have bought. Quinnsworth have re-located to the new shopping centre in the old Fair Green/Cattle Mart.

The Victorian lamp standards are a new feature. The roof of the post office is on the right and the Burrin bridge at the end of Burren Street is just out of sight.

 

Info & photo source - Carloman.