Journal 6 – 2011

CONTENTS INCLUDE: Death in the Valley: the killing of Neil ‘Plunkett’ O’Boyle by James Durney; Blackhall Castle, Calverstown, County Kildare and theories as to the possible functions of its Sheelagh na Gig by Cora Crampton; Knockpatrick Hill legend – a dress fastener for a chieftain’s cloak by Dorothy Leonard; Michael Dwyer and Bridget Brown of Cummock by David Ward; The role of horses in farm life in the 1920s by Stanley Jackson; Miscellaneous biographical notices relating to Baltinglass, appearing in newspapers, 1748-1904 by Paul Gorry; Martin Byrne, 1815-1892 by Dermot and Brian Kavanagh; Farewell to the 25-pounder field gun by James Scannell; Passage tombs in West Wicklow by Mairead Connellan, BA, Dip. LIS.; ‘The Hillside Farm, or how we lived in the 1880s’ an extract entitled ‘Pastimes’ by Joe McArdle; The Westbys and High Park house, Kiltegan, by Peadar Cullen; St. Nicholas’s holy well, Tournant, Dunlavin, by Chris Lawlor; Christmas Day 1910: Dublin & Blessington Steam Tramway timetable, by James Scannell.