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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...
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GLOBETROTTING NEW ROSS BORN ADVENTURER This Rossonian packed a lot of adventure into a relatively short life. ALFRED AYLWARD (1843-1889) Alfred Aylward, a 19th-century Wexford man, slaked his revolutionary longings across the globe. Born, Seville Cottage, New Ross...
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A PEN PICTURE OF 17th CENTURY NEW ROSS This description of 1684 New Ross by Robert Thomas Leigh, Esq. of Rosegarland paints a picture of an impressive and formidable little town. “New Ross is surrounded with a strong wall, built of lime and stone, seated upon a rock,...
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The roofless nave of the medieval church was knocked down circa 1811 and the present church built by John Roberts of Waterford. The Rev. Dunn was Rector at the time. It was in the nave of the medieval church that the people stood or knelt during long...
