Journal 10 – 2019

CONTENTS INCLUDE: Archaeological excavations on Baltinglass hill: an update by Alan Hawkes; Guests of the Crown: Wicklow men in the Curragh Internment Camps, 1921 by James Durney; Silk Manufacturing in Rathmore, County Kildare (1784-1786) by James Robinson; Preaching the suffrage gospel in County Wicklow by Rosemary Raughter; Ballymore Eustace Woollen Mills, by Jim Corley; Cecil Frances Alexander and her connection to County Wicklow by Sarah Gillespie; County Kildare during the War of Independence, 1919-1921 by Michael Murphy; Language matters: the importance of Irish in local place-name lore by Ita Roddy; Shops around Blessington Lake by Seamus Balfe; Flax growing and linen weaving in Imaal in the 1820s by John Hussey; The hillside farm or how we lived in the 1880s – ‘The land for the people’ – by Joe McArdle; The Boynestown Lordship – Baltyboys, Tulfarris & Humphreystown (part two), 1650-1850 by Brendan Corrigan; William Dargan and the Dublin and Wicklow Railway by Andrew Keating; Aspects of life in County Wicklow during the Emergency by James Scannell; Collapse of church at Burgage by Brian McCabe; The impact of the 1903 Wyndham land Act on the Mansfields of Morristown Lattin 1903-1929 by Evan Comerford; A listing of some people living on the Baltinglass estate of the Earl of Aldborough, 1767-1794 by Richard B. Lennon; Macra na Feirme and the origin of secondary education in West Wicklow by P.J. Hanlon; Nineteenth- century emigration from South Wicklow: from Coollattin to Canada by Kevin Lee; Did you ever dance to these bands in Blessington or Manor Kilbride 1971-1973? by Declan O’Connor; Goodbye to Fortgranite, a much-loved family home by Mark Shirley-Beavan; Mullaghmast – early monuments and mythologies by Cora Crampton; and book reviews.