Journal 5 – 2009

CONTENTS INCLUDE: A map of thirty-one holdings in Stratford, undated c. late-eighteenth-century courtesy of Richard B. Lennon; The hillside farm or how we lived in the 1880s, an extract entitled ‘All the year round’ – by Joe McArdle; St. Patrick’s Missionary Society: S.P.S. (The Kiltegan Fathers) by Peadar C. Ó’ Cuilinn; Tithe, protest and criminality around Dunlavin 1823-1845 by Chris Lawlor; Billy’s Country – A childhood memory of holidays in Knocklisheen, County Carlow by Kathleen Kinsella (nee Keogh); Baltinglass Cistercian Abbey by Mairéad Connellan B.A., Dip. LIS.; When Britannia’s sons with their long-range guns rang out in the Glen of Imaal – the British Army in West Wicklow by Liam Kenny; Photo from the past – John Dwyer, son of rebel leader Michael Dwyer; West Wicklow as described in the Parliamentary Gazetteer of 1846 compiled by Jason Lawlor; A horse tale: details of a horse kidnapping near Graney by Dorothy Leonard; Memories of Donard – incl. photographs of saws and sawpits courtesy of John Flynn; Elizabeth Smith comes to Baltiboys by Jim Corley; Dairy Farming in West Wicklow: from the horse-driven dash churn to creamery milk collection by Stanley Jackson; Methodists in Baltinglass – a juvenile obituary by Andrew Winnett; Extracts from The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers’ Directory through Ireland by William Wilson, contributed by Donal McDonnell; The development and present state of local Irish historiography by Chris Lawlor; ‘A Dangerous Line’ – The Dublin and Blessington Tramway line by James Scannell.