Kilkenny Archaeological Society Old Kilkenny Review Contents

It is hoped that a full index to all issues of Old Kilkenny Review will appear on this site in due course. In the meantime a listing of all articles in the annual journal from 1948 to 1998 will be found on the page of Thaddeus Breen, and below are the contents of the more recent issues.

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Good Evans, Bad Grace: Evans, Grace and Whelan, philanthropist, forger and murderer	7-13
William Colles and the Nore navigation	14-28
Early Holocene deposit beneath Abbey Street, Kilkenny City	29-35
'I despise your offer': How Sheffield Grace embellished his family history	36-43
The Kilkenny Library Society	44-48
The Confederation Hall and Market Yard	49-55
English Academy, Kilkenny	56-62
'I must be talking to my friends': Micheal Mac Liammoir in Rothe House	63-67
Geophysical surveys at Freestone Hill, Danesfort, St Kilmolig's Church (Purcellsinch) and Castlefield	68-84
Illuminated addresses	85-90
The Grand Jury maps of County Kilkenny	91-95
Thomas Chaplin and other Kilkenny cabinet makers	96-103
Breakfast shelter petition 1906	104-107
An excursion to Kilcooley Abbey 18th August 1912	108-111
A flavour of the Liber Primus Kilkenniensis 1231-1537	112-116
Chalk Sunday - Contrasting views	117-118

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The Kilkenny archaeological project	7-19
Coady's Castle redoubt, Galmoy, Co. Kilkenny: Archaeological excavations of a post-medieval earthwork fort (1999)	20-36
Breaking pots: The grooved ware assemblage from Scart, Co. Kilkenny	37-46
'A very clever scoundrel' A case of identity fraud in the Wheeler-Cuffe collection	47-49
A royal visit to Kilkenny, 1904	50-64
The masonic movement in Co. Kilkenny	65-71
David Rothe (c.1573-1650): Bishop and historian	73-84
The Bristol trade of John Rothe and other Kilkenny merchants in 1594-1595 & 1600-1601	85-101
Goodbye and good riddance: Landlord assisted emigration in the 19th century	102-109
An exile remembers: Kilkenny city and environs around 1840	110-120
Our father Francis MacManus: Kilkenny man, teacher, writer & broadcaster	121-127
'Doing the Christmas business'. Christmas shopping in Kilkenny city in the late 1930s	128-137

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The Ballykeoghan burnt mound	7-15
Two castles at Coolhill and Clogaralt in County Kilkenny	16-33
The Rothe family garden rediscovered: an interim report on the 2007 archaeological excavation project	34-46
The Rothe House family garden	48-53
A lease of 1573 relating to the Corpus Christi plays in Kilkenny	54-69
In search of James -celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of James Hoban, architect and builder of the White House	70-77
A notable precursor -Christopher Colles and the mapping of America	78-88
The IRB, Labour and Parnell: the Kilkenny factor	89-93
The Ormonde Mills throughout the centuries	94-103
The Sweetman family	104-106
Carbuncles, ulcers and postules -the Black Death in Ireland 1348-49	107-112
Nineteenth century Kilkenny -a healthy place? Part II	113-124
Early dentists in Kilkenny	125-129
The metal man of Danesfort	130-138
Duiske Abbey cemetery -its mass house and school	139-143
A question answered	144-145

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Recent archaeological discoveries in Dunmore caves, county Kilkenny	7-17
Four excavations in Kilkenny city (1999-2001) Part 2.	18-37
A record of some Kilkenny imports in the late sixteenth century	38-47
The Delahunty grave slab at St Francis' abbey, Kilkenny city	48-51
A third reformation? 'Persecution and oppression' in seventeenth century Kilkenny	52-68
The River Nore - An Fheoir	69-70
James Stephens and Kilkenny: the making of a Fenian chief	71-79
The Kilkenny Museum (1849-1910) of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland	80-97
The town bell and clock	98-103
Nineteenth century Kilkenny - a healthy place? Part 1	104-114
The Whites of Gowran House	115-128
Beginnings: the early years of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society in Rothe House	129-131

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The motte and manor of Callan	7-28
A collection of previously unpublished medieval burial monuments from St Mary's church, Kilkenny city	29-46
Four excavations in Kilkenny city (1999-2001)	47-66
Rich pickings from a medieval potter's yard at MacDonagh station, Kilkenny city	67-70
Ballyshanemore castle, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny and the eponymous Sean Mor	71-76
The creation of the Parade: Ormond's deal with Kilkenny corporation, 1677	77-116
Author's presentation inscriptions in books in KAS library	117
Some bookplates in the Kilkenny Archaeological Society library	118-119
Paulstown and 1798	120-123
A trip to Kilkenny in 1776	124-126
The Weymms [Wemyss] family of Danesfort, Co. Kilkenny	127-138
The military in Kilkenny 1800-1870	139-151
A preliminary account of recent excavations adjacent to Kilkenny union workhouse	154-162
The last Lord Galmoy	163-172
The fatal picture of Desart Court	173-175
Kilkenny's titled landowners in 1876	176-178
Kilkenny traveller stories	179-184

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New evidence for the Bronze and Iron Ages in County Kilkenny: the 1999 gas pipeline excavations	7-31
Excavation of a riverside circular tower in College Park, Kilkenny City	32-42
Archaeological excavations at the rear of No. 63 High Street (The OK House) Kilkenny City	43-61
The Priors of St John's, Kilkenny (OSA), before the Reformation	62-74
Inistioge's elections in 1640	75-82
Three Kilkenny book collectors	83-88
Thomas Pierce Purcell: a Kilkenny man to be remembered	89-92
Mahon & McPhillips Ltd., 1947-1988: an oral history. (part 2)	93-105
A newly discovered Anglo-Norman ringwork castle from Purcell's Inch townland, Kilkenny	106-108
William of Kilkenny, Bishop of Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire	109-112
Fragments of Kilkenny's Renaissance past in Dean St., Kilkenny	113-117

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Medieval grave slabs recovered from the River Nore, St John's Bridge, Kilkenny City	6-20
Model of Duiske Abbey	21-23
Mahon & McPhillips Ltd., 1947-1988: an oral history	24-43
Tolls and customs at Graiguenamanagh	44-45
The Irishtown and the Hightown: uneasy neighbours	46-62
It said in the papers - 1922	63-68
Chomolungma - the Kilkenny connection	69-79
Probing the past: a geophysical survey at St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny	80-106
An heraldic reminder of King Henry VIII	107-112
The stones of Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamanagh	113-120
A Kilkenny builder's time-book, 1896	121-124
Jerpoint Abbey: an historical perspective	125-138
Kilkenny Mechanics' Friend Society	139-143
Thomastown Benevolent Society	144-146
Dorcas Birthistle	147-148

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The bells & bellringers of St Canice's Cathedral	6-10
The cantred of Erley: a case study of manorial organisation	11-25
Work begins on Talbot tower, Kilkenny	26-29
The Bishop's palace, Kilkenny	30-53
It said in the papers - 1847	54-57
Kilkenny reclaimed: the archaeological evidence for medieval reclamation in Kilkenny city	58-69
The colonnade, St Canice's Cathedral	70-71
Enactments of the Dernhundred in Kilkenny 1516-1544	72-85
Farm accounts on a Co. Kilkenny estate 1846-47	86-96
Archaeological excavation of early medieval burials at Cooleeshalmore, Threecastles, Co. Kilkenny	97-104
In the Borough of St Kenny (2)	105-118
The nomination of Kilkenny MPs in 1628	119-125
The history of St John's bridge, Kilkenny	126-140
The tomb of John, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde, St Canice's cathedral	141-148
Architectural stone fragments stored to the rear of Rothe House	149-152

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The Richard Colles Johnson bequest	5-15
The round tower	16-17
On Viscount Frankfort's Kilkenny estates in the 1840s	18-40
It said in the papers - 1904	41-49
Youth Projects	50-52
Rothe House - A history	53-75
Kelly Coachbuilders	76-81
Thomastown Recollections	82-92
Mayors of the city of Kilkenny 1609-2002	93-99
Patrick M Egan	100-112
In the Borough of St Kenny	113-130
Notes on Kilkenny architects and buildings	131-139
Rectangular enclosure at Knockdrina	140-143

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The Hole in the Wall, Kilkenny: an inner house of Archer's Mansion, 1582	6-24
It said in the papers - 1901	25-28
Sovereigns of the town of Kilkenny, 1282-1608	29-35
An examination of the modern Celtic cross	36-52
A suspected case of arson in sixteenth century Kilkenny	53-63
The Atlantic world of Kavanagh and Cottrill	64-81
Photographs of Kilkenny interest from a Victorian album	82-88
The hearth money roll of 1665 for the city of Kilkenny	89-102
O'Loughlin Memorial Church of St. John the Evangelist, Kilkenny	103-123
An tAthair J K Fielding	124-127
The Parade terrace, Kilkenny	128-139
George Berkeley and Thomas Prior, lifelong friends	140-148
Photographic exhibition, Rothe House	149-151

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The arms of Tighe	5-18
Two Robertson houses at John's Quay, Kilkenny	19-25
Kilmurry Castle and other related sites in Slieverue Parish	26-108
Alderman Richard Connell's book	109-115
Archaeological excavation at No. 26 Patrick Street, Kilkenny	116-122
A newly discovered 'Kerin' tomb at Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny	123-130
Kilkenny men and the Hôtel Royal des Invalides	131-155
A family in the Phelan Room, Rothe House, Kilkenny	156-161
John Holland artist of the American depression	162-176

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America's first Irish visitor	7-9
Pompeo Batoni & his Kilkenny sitters	10-18
Yeats - the Kilkenny connection	19-23
Mary, Kitty & Rita - the three Harte sisters	24-27
The Archdeacon (Cody) family in the American south 1730-1875	28-43
The 1659 census	44-49
Kilkenny District Model School	50-74
A letter from America	75-79
The Shirley eviction from their farm at Burnchurch in 1850	80-87
The 1718 Kilkenny presentation of Freedom to Richard Tighe of Dublin	88-91
From India to Brazil: Nicholas Comerford a seventeenth-century Kilkenny-born cartographer	92-102
The lost Swiss cottage of Woodstock: its architecture and its illustrations	103-111
The reform of Kilkenny Corporation in the Repeal year of 1843	112-127