Continuing the fruitful relationship which has developed over recent years Laois Heritage Society in association with Carlow Historical and Archeological Society will be hosting a talk by Ger Dooley on The Electrification of Laois and Carlow. The talk will take place on Thursday 8 April at 8. To
This illustrated lecture covered the Backstairs Mountains from prehistory to the present day. It focussed on that lovely stretch of country running from Kildavin to Clonmullen to Kilbranish to Myshall, Ballymurphy all the way down to St Mullins, while also occasionally glancing across to the Wexford side
Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society’s February lecture was about ‘ The Hospitaller Knights of St John in Carlow & South Leinster from the 12th to the 21st Centuries’ by Dr Declan Downey KM. The talk will took place on Wednesday 17th February at 8pm by Zoom. The
Update – Kieran’s talk is now available in Audio and Video format at http://carlowhistorical.com/media/ On Wednesday 20th Jan @ 8pm Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society presented an online lecture by Kieran Hickey on Wolves in Ireland. As we know Carlow has a special connection with wolves in
On Wednesday 18 November Oliver Whelan delivered a CHAS lecture based on his recent book ‘Landholding in the new English settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635–1875’. The talk told the story of the new settlement of English Protestants which was established in Hacketstown in the early seventeenth
On Wednesday 19th February at 8pm in the Talbot Hotel, Dr Karen Dempsey gave a talk on ’Sights, Sounds and Smells: Experiencing Daily Life at some Carlow Castles’. What comes to mind when we think of the medieval castle? Hopefully we have moved beyond conjuring images of
Join Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society for the third in the winter lecture series. Niall O Brien will present ‘The Barrow Navigation: a social and economic history’. This talk will discuss the physical layout of the navigation with its canal, weirs, locks, land holdings and buildings. Also
On 20 Nov 2019 Dr Tom McGrath of Carlow College, St Patrick’s gave a talk on ‘Bishop Doyle (JKL) and Daniel O’Connell’. There was a large turn-out for the Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society’s public lecture on the relationship between Bishop Doyle (JKL) and Daniel O’Connell. The
On Wednesday 16 October, a large attendance at the Step House hotel in Borris heard Dr David Heffernan speaking on ‘The Kavanaghs of Carlow and the Tudor Conquest of Ireland c.1515-1603’ He outlined how the sixteenth-century saw the gradual erosion of the Kavanagh lordship in Carlow by
(All Photos courtesy Paul Curran) On Weds 15 May Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society presented an entertaining and very educational talk in the Talbot Hotel by Eoin Grogan on Excavations at Carrig, Co. Wicklow: A Bronze Age family cemetery. Dr Grogan explained how land improvement works in