List of Casualties at the Battle of Aughrim

This list is taken from George Story's "An Impartial History of the Wars in Ireland". Story was a chaplain with the Williamite army and recorded events as they took place. It lists some of the officers, soldiers and horses killed and wounded at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691.

Longford Workhouse

The Irish poet Pádraic Colum was born in 1881 at Longford Workhouse, where his father was workhouse master.

Image courtesy of www.workhouses.org.uk

Patrick Sarsfield, First Earl of Lucan

Patrick Sarsfield played an important role on the Jacobite side during the Williamite war in Ireland.

Courtesy of 'The History of County Dublin, 1906'.

Window detail, former Presentation Convent, Carlow

The former Presentation Convent is situated at the junction of Tullow Street with College Street. The prominent Gothic Revival window consists of a two-tiered arrangement of stained glass. These tiers are divided by a stone tripartite panel with carved detail. The window has perpendicular tracery with angel lights on either side of the central panes of the upper and lower tiers. It also features a hood mould overhead and block and start dressing on either side. The stained glass is for the most part of simple geometric design throughout.

Newgrange

The Stone Age passage tomb at Newgrange is illuminated spectacularly each year at winter solstice. According to Irish mythology, Newgrange was one of the fairy mounds where the Tuatha Dé Danann lived. Some versions of the Cúchulainn story say he was conceived there.

© Richard Gallagher.

Workhouse Railings in use in a Carlow garden

Railings from the old workhouse in Carlow now being used in a private garden.

© Peter Walker

Railway station, Bagenalstown

The design for the Railway station at Bagenalstown (Muinebheag) is attributed to William Deane Butler (d. 1857). It is constructed in limestone and granite. The design incorporates a central block with pedimented breakfront, linking arcades and projecting terminal bays. The station platforms have an open shelter resting on paired granite ashlar piers. The station resembles an Italianate Palladian type building.

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Oak Park Arch, Oak Park (Painestown), Carlow

The Arch, Oak Park, Carlow William Vitruvius Morrison (1794-1838) William Vitruvius Morrison also designed the entrance gate to Oak Park House and demesne. It remains to this day a magnificent example of a Triumphal Arch. The arch is flanked by paired Ionic columns on the front elevation with Doric columns on the back flank of the Arch. The columns are raised on pedestals. Both sides of the Arch carry a full entablature. On the approach from the Carlow side, is a carriage turn surrounded by a high granite wall.

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