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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
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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 A WALL They commenced, accordingly, on the feast...
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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...
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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 taken from the...
