Offaly History

Last week we set out reasons why Cormac Street can be considered good. Anybody getting off the train, visiting the town park or the courthouse cannot but be impressed. Charleville Street was the outer extremity of the town when building started here in the 1780s. Probably the Elmfield house (now the location of the Aras an Chontae) dates to 1795. Both Norris of that house and Acres of Acres Hall (dated to 1786) were functionaries of the young landlord’s family and both built on the road to the demesne....

2 Cormac Street, Tullamore: from Acres Hall to the town park: stages in the development of a singular street. A contribution to the Living in Towns series supported by the Heritage Council. By Michael Byrne and Offaly History Last week we set out reasons why Cormac Street can be considered good. Anybody getting off the train, visiting the town park or the courthouse cannot but be impressed. Charleville Street was the ou…

I dropped in to Dermot Mulligan in Carlow County Museum to congratulate him and his team with their ongoing excellence in the Museum Standards Accreditation Programme for Ireland.

Carlow County Museum is really one of the finest municipal museums in the country. Comhgairdeas Dermot agus leis an foireann go léir.

The Heritage Council Heritage Week Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Carlow/Kilkenny Green Party Carlow County Council Community Information Carlow Public Participation Network - PPN Carlow Pride Festival Carlow Nationalist Carlow County Museum

The Corcoran family of Crissard (Crossard) Townland, Rathaspick Civil Parish, County Laois:  A classic tale of emigration during the Great Famine. By Kevin Corcoran.

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1. Marriage of James Corcoran & Elizabeth Conlon in Ballyadams RC parish.
2. Elizabeth Corcoran's entry in Griffith's Valuation in Shanbagh townland.
3. Remains of the original Wolfhill R.C. Chapel, the ruins of which are found in present day St. Mary’s Church Graveyard.
4. John Corcoran (c. 1900).