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Masons
Survey 1812 - Parish of Rathcline
The parish of
Rathcline, situated in the barony of the same name, County of Longford,
and diocese of Ardagh, forms the most distant part of the county, having
been connected with the province of Connaught, and county of Roscommon,
by a strong....
Old Longford Town
In the absence of
early documentation there is very often a diversity of opinion as to the
manner in which a town got its name. Longford is no exception to
this regard....
History of Longford Ancient
and Modern
Courthouse, The
Old Gaol, Military Barracks, The County Infirmary, The County Home, St
Mel's Cathedral, St John's Church, The Methodist Church, The Castle of
Lisardowling, St. Joseph's Convent, County Longford in 1881
Field Antiquities of County
Longford
Arched Entrance
Gates, High Cross, Grave-Slabs, Holy Well, Mass Rock, Mile Stone, Motte
and Bailey, Standing Stone, Stone Circle
Landlords
and their Estates - Trades
The Bond’s
Estate, Newcomens and Lefroys of Carriglass, Lord Granard Estate,
Blacksmiths, Shoe Makers
The
History of Flax and Linen in Co Longford 1698-1998
In January 1996, I
was asked by Longford Historical Society to carry out a study of the
effects of the Great Famine in my own parish of Kilcommock and the
surrounding parishes in South Longford.......
Historical
Highlights
1840 May 19th - In the presence
of 6 Bishops, 120 Priests and 40,000 people, Dr W O'Higgins, Bishop of
Ardagh, laid the foundation stone of St Mel's Cathedral. 1848 -
On July 22nd, the County
Infirmary, Battery Road, opened. 1849
- Maria Edgeworth, the
well-known novelist, died on May 22nd........
Irish Folk Medicine
Transference Cures,
Burns, Colours, Blood, Fractures, Skin, Healing
Padraic Colum - Longford Poet
“I have always
tried to use the speech of the people of Longford in my work”, Padraic
Colum stated in an interview with the present writer during his last
visit to Ireland.
Charles Clinton
I was first put on the track of this
distinguished family by a single sentence: "General Clinton was the
son of a Longford farmer". I give here only the salient facts of
his life, and some information on his distinguished sons.....
James McCarroll
This man of many parts was a
contemporary of the last figure, and I choose him as an example of how
successful the ordinary Irish Catholic emigrant, of some education,
might become.....
The Barbers
Two other famous
officers in the American War of Independence were Francis Barber,
Colonel, 2d Regiment, New Jersey Line, and John Barber, Colonel of the
New York Line. They were sons of Patrick Barber, who emigrated from
County Longford to Orange County, New York, in 1729.....
The Proctor's
Thomas Proctor,
soldier, was born in Longford, Ireland, 1739, died in Philadelphia, Pa,
March 16 1806. He emigrated to Philadelphia with his father, Francis
Proctor, and was, by trade, a carpenter....
Trainee's
Project - Convicts and Transportation
Today
punishment of crimes has differed since the 1800’s.
The Death Penalty has been abolished, a life sentence; doesn’t
mean life but a mere twenty-five years imprisonment....
Trainee's
Project - Medical Women
The Longford of the early to
mid 1900’s was no different to any other county in Ireland. The
country was still suffering in the aftermath of the famine and the
depravation of the 1800’s.....
Trainee's
Project - Superstitions
The world
we live in today is much different than it once was.
Technological and scientific breakthroughs have occurred at such
an unprecedented rate in the last century that it is a marvel of human
evolution....
Trainee's
Project - Stories and Old Sayings
One
day local Historian and Storyteller, Paddy Egan, kindly paid the
Genealogy Centre a visit to tell us a few tales of time gone by.
He told us three small tales about his life as a boy when he
visited his uncles.....
Trainee's
Project - Kitty Kiernan
Life had started out so
promisingly for Kitty. She was born in 1892 into a very comfortably-off
merchant family in the town of Granard, County Longford. She had five
sisters and one brother....
Trainee's
Project - Mary Maguire
Mary Catherine Gunning Maguire
(1884-1957) was born in Collooney, Co Sligo. Her parents died when she
was just an infant and her fondest memories of childhood are the times
she spent with her grandmother....
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