Toll Roads and Turnpikes – John Lynch

Toll Roads and Turnpikes Jack Lynch The name turnpike or pike was commonly used for the gates on a toll road. Tolls or taxes have been collected since medieval times […]

Geoff Rose – Nixie Boran

Nixie Boran Geoff Rose The life and times of Nicholas “ Nixie” Boran by Professor Ann Boran, read by Geoff Rose. It is difficult to be objective about one’s own […]

Geoff Rose – Eugene O’Neill

Eugene O’Neill Geoff Rose “Gimme a Viskey, ginger ale on the side…and don’t be stingy baby” those words were not uttered by your favourite bar room cowboy or your friendly […]

Paddy Neary – Dan Stapleton

Dan Stapleton Paddy Neary Kilkenny won the first of its thirty six All Ireland Senior Hurling titles in 1904. As happened often in the early days of the G.A.A. the […]

Paddy Neary: Ballyconra House & Mabel Cahill

Ballyconra House & Mabel Cahill Paddy Neary A detached seven bay two story with dormer attic dated 1724.A substantial house representing an element of the early 18th Century. Possibly having […]

Geoff Rose – Patrick Kavanagh in Kilkenny

Patrick Kavanagh in Kilkenny Geoff Rose “This is a terrible place, Kilkenny is a terrible place, a terrible place entirely.” Not exactly the most poetic words for Ye Faire City, […]

Edmund Fitzpatrick 1822-1896

https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ned-Kennedy-RIP-Edmund-Fitzpatrick-Artist.mp3 Ned Kennedy (RIP) My name is Ned Kennedy and I would like to tell you about the artist and illustrator, Edmund Fitzpatrick. The bicentenary of the birth of artist […]

The Canal Walk

https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Nicholas-Maher-The-Canal-Walk.mp3 Nicholas Maher, and takes account of previous research prepared by the late Edward Law There is a general consensus that the Canal Walk came into being about 1763. The […]

. . . YOU CAN ROLL IT AGAIN THERE, JACK!

https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Geoff-Rose-Roll-it-again-Jack.mp3 Geoff Rose Going to the cinema is one of the pleasures of city living, a chance to escape from the reality of life to the celluloid world of the […]