Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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1. Palatine (continued)

   

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   to get out of the 'Serpentine Walk' without aid of one who knows it. Some of the Huguenot names: Page (my grandmother) Croff? Loftus? Halfpenny? According to Lewis (1837): Named from colony of German refugees in reign of Louis XIV. Móta 'Seimí. 1/2 mile from Carlow on Tullow Road: From my old notebook page 263: - Móta 'Seimí .i. léine mná. I mbl 1798 do cuireadh seimí nó léine mná ar crochadh ar bharr sceithe ar an móta so mar cómhartha do's na "Buachaillí do bhí fá longphort san Móin Duibh. Ar bhfeiscint an cómhartha so dóibh do bhí a fhios aca go raibh na saigdiúirí i gCeatharlach" (1912) 630 of the boys were shot down at the Battle of Carlow 1798. They were burried in the "Croppys' Hole", Carlow-Graigue, now Graigue-Cullen. A fine Celtic Cross with appropriate inscription was erected over the grave in 1898 (?) 81. ann's clucet ( confessed power page 86) Just 2 or 3 above ago to resent representation of the person family gore this...

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2. St Ann's Church

   

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   Just 2 or 3 years ago the present representative of the Bruen family gave this church to the Catholic with permission to remove on condition that it would erected exactly as it had stood since O Connell's day. It was taken down, all stones numbered and erected across the the river in Graigue-Cullen. About 4 months ago (1937) the remains of the priests burried in the old chapel were removed into the new. So Bruen built the new church for the poor of Carlow Graigue after all!

   

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