“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…
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.
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),
This building built in 1861 was originally the premises of The National Bank in the town until the company merged with Bank of Ireland and the Hibernian Bank in 1969. It then became known as Bank of Ireland 20 The…
ON THIS DAY 221 YEARS AGO: JUNE 5th 1798.THE ASSAULT ON THE THREE BULLET GATE. A SHORT ACCOUNT.At approximately 3:30 in the morning Matthew Furlong approached the Three Bullet Gate under a Herald’s flag with a letter from Bagenal Harvey…
In the Holy Year of 1950, an Irish pilgrimage to Rome brought along a memento of New Ross craft. SOURCE: The Advocate (Melbourne) May 25th 1950
There is a belief that we should learn from history and not live in it. Perhaps then there is a lesson for modern New Ross regarding cooperation and community enterprise in the events of 754 years ago. THIS TOWN NEEDS…
MURDER MOST FOUL The clippings from Welsh newspapers below from May 1863 set a background of intrigue and tragedy worthy of any crime series or novel.
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…
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…