St. Laserian's Trail
Ballykealey – Baile Uí Chaollaí – O’ Kealy’s town
13. Quaker graveyard and Lecky family graveyard – The charming village of Ballon is rich in archaeological heritage. Located on the outskirts of the village is the Quaker graveyard also strongly associated with the Lecky family for whom nearby Ballykealey House was built in 1830. Twenty six members of the family are known to be [...]
Ballybrommell – Baile an Bhromailigh
Along with Ballykealey graveyard this 14. Quaker burial ground is a reminder of the once thriving Quaker community in Co. Carlow. Quakerism evolved in the North of England in the seventeenth century and made its first inroads into the Carlow/Kildare region during the Cromwellian plantations of the 1650s. Many Quaker families settled in the Fenagh [...]
Nurney – An Urnaí – The Oratory
On a clear day, the views from 15. St. John’s Church of Ireland Church are magnificent, stretching across the verdant landscape of west Carlow as far as Kilkenny itself. At the end of a walled entrance avenue visitors are greeted with a small but well proportioned single cell stone church with three bays and a handsome [...]
Adelaide Memorial Church
Adelaide Memorial Church
11. Adelaide Memorial ChurchThis church was raised by John Duguid of Dover, England, in memory of his wifeAdelaide and his daughter Constance who was killed in a riding accident whilevisiting friends in Myshall. Described as an architectural gem, it was designedby George Coppinger Ashlin, one of the foremost architects in the country as [...]
Catholic Church of Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Catholic Church of Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Local tradition also links St. Columbanus, Ireland’s first great European saint, withthe area. Tradition holds that he was advised by St. Croine Bheag of Carlow (see St.Patrick’s Trail) to leave home to follow his monastic education. His journey took himto Bangor which enjoyed a close association with Carlow town. [...]
Church of Ireland church
5. Church of Ireland church
Church of Ireland church The churchyard at Dunleckny contains the ivycoveredruins of two churches. The detached three-bay, single cell Church of Irelandwas built in the late eighteenth but abandoned in the early nineteenth century.The other church is much older. At the beginning of the thirteenth century this churchwas granted to the [...]
Quaker burial ground
Quaker burial ground
Along with Ballykealey graveyard this 14.Quaker burial ground is a reminder ofthe once thriving Quaker community in Co. Carlow. Quakerism evolved in the Northof England in the seventeenth century and made its first inroads into the Carlow/Kildare region during the Cromwellian plantations of the 1650s. Many Quaker familiessettled in the Fenagh area, the most [...]
Quaker graveyard and Lecky family graveyard
Quaker graveyard and Lecky family graveyard
13. Quaker graveyard and Lecky family graveyard – The charming village of Ballon isrich in archaeological heritage. Located on the outskirts of the village is the Quaker graveyardalso strongly associated with the Lecky family for whom nearby Ballykealey House was builtin 1830. Twenty six members of the family are known to [...]
Romanesque church
Romanesque church
Myshall lies at the foot of the northern slopes of the Blackstairs Mountains whichprovide a magnificent backdrop to the rich pasture lands and winding country roadswhich surround the village. St. Finian, known as the ‘tutor of the Saints of Ireland’ andfounder of the celebrated monastery of Clonard, Co. Meath, was born in Myshall about470 [...]
St. Brigid’s Well
St. Brigid’s Well
10. St. Brigid’s Well is an ancient holy well that is now a modern shrine.
