Holy Wells in the Parish of Powerscourt
Holy wells were used to celebrate saints, seek cures and give thanks. There were some 3,000 wells across the country. The Irish Folklore Commission (IFC) collected oral information from people about holy wells in the 1930s, and completed a survey…
A road that never was?
One of my favourite maps I have come across is one drawn to mark out an alternative route from the village to Kilmalin avoiding the steep incline of Kilgarran Hill. I have drawn a representation of this map, and while…
Taylor and Skinner Map of Ireland 1777
George Taylor and Andrew Skinner obtained funding to complete a map of Ireland and raised £2000 from Ireland’s landed gentry. They produced their map, surveyed in 1777 was a great aid to travellers, who would have had to previously rely…
Killegar Church
“The cycling season is coming on,” wrote Rev. Professor George Thomas Stokes in 1891, “and cycling ought to be a great help to archæology.” And so he introduces his article on Killegar Church, which he says can be found by…
Maps from Monck Papers at the National Library of Ireland (Archive Month #6)
The Monck papers which, like the previously mentioned Powerscourt papers, have their own index (No. 4 – Part I includes the Wicklow Estate information), have two maps of interest that I came across. Monck’s lived at Charleville, and the two…
House Book for Town of Enniskerry 1840 (Archive Month #2)
NAI 5.3573 30 Jan 1840: Houses in Town of Enniskerry Many of us are familiar with the wonderful Griffith Valuation records available online. The valuation of Ireland has a complicated heritage, but gathered pace as a result of the enactment…
Travellers’ Accounts of Touring in Enniskerry (Archive Month #1)
There’s a long tradition of travellers writing accounts of passing through Enniskerry and Tinnehinch, (usually) writing about the beauty of the area. In the early stages of the book, I used some of these accounts to build a picture of…
Hearth Money Rolls, Powerscourt, 1668
One of the earliest writings on placenames by the indefatigable Liam Price, historian, scholar and Wicklow judge, was his work on transcribing the Hearth Money Rolls of County Wicklow, which he published in 1931.* Price was a district justice in…
18th Century Surveys of Wicklow
One of the great sources of information I had in studying the village’s history was the range of parliamentary inquiries of the 19th century, with their detailed data collection and data analysis providing a great source of contemporary information. However,…
Churchtown Graveyard, Powerscourt
A short video giving an overview of Churchtown Graveyard, near Powerscourt House. The shots were taken in August 2010.
The Depositions of 1641
The recent digitisation project of the 1641 depositions by Trinity College Dublin library allow text search of these documents. This allows us to probe these documents and find anything related to Enniskerry. According to the 1641 website, the depositions were…
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