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In the Shadow of the Steeple - No.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover Illustration: Stroan Fountain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreword

Education in Bennettsbridge in the 19th Century
Joe Doyle...4

From Castlegarden to Pleasant Valley and back - A New Zealander's search for her Irish roots
Win Loach (nee Murphy)...9

Football Days around Kilfane (1899-1911)
Walter Walsh...20

Graves Family of Thomastown
Liam Hoyne...37

Testimony in Stone
Mary Breen...45

Field and Placenames of Castlegarden
Brid Kennedy & Ned Murphy...51

Bennettsbridge National School
Phil Kennedy...56

The Voices of Conflict: the Inland Salmon Fishery of the River Nore, 1911
Marilyn Silverman...66

A Theatrical Wedding at Kilfane
William Murphy...81

Kilbline Tower-House
Denis Malone...89

Bennettsbridge Folklore
William Murphy...102

"In the Shadow of the Steeple"
No.2 published in 1990
No.4 published in 1994
No.5 published in 1996
No.6 published in 1998
No.7 published in 2001
No.8 published in 2003

No.9 published in 2006

On-line articles from: No.1 published in 1987 now out of print