OLD NAMES, OLD PLACES
WHO
REMEMBERS? WHO FORGETS?
By Annie C
Byrne (Carloviana 1995/1996)
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CLOSH-CLAIS:-
Located in the Askea area of Carlow it means water-channel,
hole or cutting. The stream that ran across the road to
Askea Bridge, near Carlow Motors, is probably where
the name came from.
CLOSH
PUMP was on the corner of Brownshill Road and Tullow
Road, where the people met every-day to get their water
and have their "chats".
GRANGE
HOUSE was across the road and was the home of the Reddy
family. Nearby, a sandpit, owned by the Reddys, was the
main supplier of materials used to repair many a road
around Carlow and Killeshin in years gone by. During the
1920's the military put a curfew on Carlow Town. One
night, near Askea Bridge, a young man named Owen Rice,
was returning to his home, minding his own business, when
he was shot and fatally wounded by the Black and Tans.
Why? Because he was out after curfew.
ROPE
WALK where Peter Jones lived, was between Reddys and
St. Killian's Crescent. At one there was a Rope Factory
in the area.
THE
PLOTS were owned by people including Whelans, closh and
Nannie Nolan, Tullow street. They are now part of St.
Killian’s Crescent.
THE MILKING FIELDS were
used by people who owned cows and grazed them there. They paid a fee to
the landowner, Major Browne Clayton. Part of St. Killian's Crescent,
Springdale and New Oak Estate are built on these fields.
BALLYFULLARD
,now called Pollerton, derived from the family named
Pollard.
THE CUTTINGS & THE TWELVE HOUSES were on the left hand side under Pollerton Bridge. A handball alley,
famous for its matches, and a dancing board gave great entertainment to
the local people during the long summer days and nights. There were no
T. V.'s or radios in those days but that didn't stop people enjoying
themselves.
THE
YELLOW LOCH was a pond formed by the Askea Stream and is
now part of the grounds of the Presentation College,
Askea.
TEMPLECRONEY
is the site of the present Town Hall and Carlow County
Museum. St. Crone, a 5th century recluse, daughter of
Sedna MacErca, great grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, is believed
to have lived in the area, where there was also a church or temple one
time. The name changed in 1914 to Haymarket. The Town Hall car park
where a weekly market is now held every Monday is called
BUTTERFIELD MARKET.
COALMARKET & WATER
LANE is now Kennedy Street.
POTATO MARKET still
retains its own name.
Many
old buildings, old streets, old names, are gone from
Carlow Town and County. I hope the memories of these are
never wiped from Carlow peoples minds. Encourage your
children and grandchildren to listen to our stories and
read as much as they can about our heritage. Let them
visit our Museum and join the Old Carlow Society. Keep
alive in the minds of the younger generation the old
names and the old places because tomorrow "they"
will belong to "the older".
Hopefully,
another day will come, when more memories of old Carlow
that are gone but not forgotten, will come to be printed.
Special
thanks to "Carloman"