by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | Tip Bits
THE ROTA FOR BUILDING THE WALLS OF ROSS 1265AD An example of what a “Traders Association” can do when they put their minds to it. MONDAY: Vintners, mercers, merchants, drapers. Until noon. Then the priests and mariners.(1000 men)TUESDAY: Tailors &...
by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | Tip Bits
Well, he actually did, if we are to believe the reverend bishop’s account of this macabre piece of family history. Incidentally the bishop was court chaplain to Queen Victoria. SOURCE: Some Pages of my Life, William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon,...
by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | Tip Bits
A LEGACY RUINED IN ROSBERCON In hindsight, it could appear as pure vandalism but it was not an unusual practice.There are many records, including in New Ross, where the ruins of ancient monuments were torn down and the stonework used in construction/repair of other...
by admin | Sep 2, 2019 | Tip Bits
The man commanding the Crown Forces in New Ross on 5th June 1798 was Dublin born General Henry Johnson. Below is a brief biography of the man. Johnson, Sir Henry, Bart., G.C.B., General, was born in Dublin in 1748, entered the army in 1761, and rose through the...
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Many Rossonians assume that Sugar House Lane is so named because it at one time contained warehouses which contained or stored sugar, This is not entirely true as the Sugar House after which it was named was actually located on a site in South Street facing the top of...
by admin | Sep 2, 2019 | Tip Bits
One of the most momentous events of the Land War and Land League agitation of the 1880’s in Co. Wexford is recounted below. “Forty nine persons, and in the number was included an old man of eighty, several women, and some children in arms, who had been...
