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HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

“I never realised that New Ross had so much history” This is a comment that I have heard so many times from locals and visitors alike since the inception of New Ross Street Focus in 2014. I am delighted that…

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WE BID YOU ALL ADIEU

WE BID YOU ALL ADIEU

No information other than names etc. But just try to imagine the many before and after stories involved.Some of the names were spelt as they sounded which may explain some Irish American surname variations.

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A list of “Marksmen”

A list of “Marksmen”

NEW ROSS VOTERS ON TARGET Below is a list of “Marksmen” for the town as per the British Parliamentary Papers of 1837. However, the definition of the term is not what you might think….. Marksmen (i.e. illiterate voters),

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ANOTHER PIECE OF HIDDEN HISTORY

ANOTHER PIECE OF HIDDEN HISTORY

ANOTHER PIECE OF HIDDEN HISTORY Six-arch rubble stone road bridge, c.1800, probably originally over a river. A picturesque bridge representing an important element of the late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century civil engineering or transport heritage of New Ross having originally…

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THE MEDIEVAL NEW ROSS EXCHEQUER 

THE MEDIEVAL NEW ROSS EXCHEQUER 

The origins of the word exchequer are as follows: Current senses derive from the Norman department of state dealing with the royal revenues, named Exchequer from the chequered tablecloth on which accounts were kept by means of counters. References below…

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