Articles in Journals Nos. 1-29 from 1968 to 2023 compiled by Liam Gaul and published in WHS Journal No. 28 ( updated to Journal No. 29)

Author’s names appear in Italics throughout.

No. 1 1968

Foreword /Editorial – The Origin and Development of Wexford Town Part I—The Prehistoric Period Part 2—The Danish Period – Dr G.W. Hadden / Irish-Norse Relations – Dr A.T. Lucas / Monksgrange – J.P. O’Callaghan /St Margarets, Carne – E. Culleton / The Guided Tours of Wexford Town / Commodore John Barry – E.P. O’Brien / The Down Survey – J. Lynch / The Town That Died – N. Furlong / Donall Spáinneach Caomhánach – S. deVál / Festival ’67 / The Etchinghams of Dunbrody – W.H. Jeffery/ A Cist Grave at Boolavogue – Dr J. Raftery / Wexford Miscellany 1906 – Paddy Doran / Folk Section – The Dash Churn – Miss M. Conboy. – 12 articles.

No. 2 1969

 

The Origin and Development of Wexford Town – Part 3—The Norman Period – Dr G.

W. Hadden / The Knights of the Temple – T. P. Walsh / Hervey de Montmorency – Mrs.

S. H. Fitzmaurice / The Castle of the Deeps – J. P. O’Callaghan / The Roches of Wexford

• R. Roche / Notes on a Souterrain at Kellystown, Co. Wexford – B. O ‘Riordan / Wexford and Newfoundland – T. Ó Duinn / The History of Land Reclamation in Wexford Harbour

• N. Furlong / Folk Section – Old customs of Forth and Bargy – Mrs. E. Jefferies.
  

No. 3 1970-71

The Origin and Development of Wexford Town Part IV – Dr G. Hadden / Templetown and the Order of the Hospital – T. P. Walsh / The High Crosses of Ireland – Rev Séamas S. de Vál / The Career of Diarmait Mac Máel na mBó, King of Leinster – Donncha Ó Corráin / Quakers in Wexford – Olive Goodbody / Devereux of Ballymagir and Adamstown – W. H. Jeffery / Some Notes on Wexford Maritime Affairs in the Middle Ages and Renaissance – J. De Courcy-Ireland / Some early Norman Families in Co.

Wexford – Lt Col Hubert Gallwey / Duncannon – Dr Peadar J. Sinnott / Folk Section – The Old Farmhouse – Miss M. Conboy.

No. 4 1972-73

Map showing roads and principal place names used throughout the Journal / The History of Loftus Hall – Thomas P. Walsh / Neolithic Excavation in North-West Ireland – Molly Shallow / The Career of Diarmait Mac Máel na mBó, King of Leinster, Part II – Donncha Ó Corráin / John Kavanagh, Young Irelander, Part I – Edward Culleton / Circular Enclosure at Tomona, Co. Wexford – Thomas Fanning / Rosslare Fort and its People – Gerard Kehoe / Some early Norman Families in Co. Wexford – Lt Col Hubert Gallwey / Letter to the Editor / The Immediate Predecessors of Dermot Mac Murrough – Nicholas Furlong / A Wexford Cause Célèbre – Elizabeth Reid / Rambles in Bargy – B. S. Priondagrás / The Manor of Rosslare – Dr J. B. Swan / The River Slaney – Séamas S. de Vál / Folk Section – Weather Portents – Mrs. E. Jefferies / The Wexford Guides – S. R. Coe.

 

No. 5 1974-75

 

The Administration of Justice in Wexford – Maurice Moynihan / The Norman Motte at Old Ross; method of construction – Edward Culleton and William Colfer / The Uí Chennselaig Kingship of Leinster 1072-1126 – Donncha Ó Corráin / The History of Loftus Hall — Part II – Thomas P. Walsh / Rosslare Fort and its People – Gerard Kehoe / Sanderscourt – John G. Frayne / New Geneva in Waterford – Hubert Butler / John Kavanagh — Part II: The Union Volunteer – Edward Culleton / The Legend of the Lord of Ballyteigue – Mrs. E. Jefferies / How Whitty went to Spain – Michael Meyler / Letters to the Editor.

No. 6 1976-77

 

The Medieval Moated Sites of Co. Wexford – Dr T. B. Barry / Dunbrody through the Ages – Thomas P. Walsh / The Drinagh Cement Works – Hilary Murphy / The Uí Chennselaig Kingship of Leinster 1072-1126 — Part II – Donncha Ó Corráin / The Excavation of St. Vogues Well and Dolmen (Site of) – Ann Lynch and Mary Kelly directed by Professor M.J. O’Kelly / The Mechanics’ Institute – Samuel Coe / Jonathan Swift and Wexford’s Spa – Stephen O’Sullivan / Kelly of Killanne – T. D. Sinnott / The Furlongs of Co. Wexford – William H. Jeffery.

No. 7 1978-79

 

Looking Back / The Tyrrells of County Wexford – Joseph A. King / A Wexford Ship- builder – William Sweetman / Some Parallels to New Ross – Robin E. Glasscock / John Barry — his Origins and Career – Richard Roche / The Uí Chennselaig Kingship of Leinster 1072-1126 – Part III – Donncha Ó Corráin / Speranza – Author Unknown / Dom. John Sweetman—a personal memoir – Dean C. M. Gray-Stack.

No. 8 1980-81

Fortified Houses of the Sixteenth Century in South Wexford – John O’Callaghan / The Harvey-Waddy Connection – J. Leonard Waddy / Bagenal Harvey’s Pistols – Percy Bagenal Waddy / An Investigation of the Town Wall at Abbey Street, Wexford – Mary Cahill and Michael Ryan / Tobacco Growing in Co. Wexford – Martina McCarthy / Robert Wigram and the ‘Wexford’ – Colm Kerrigan / Vinegar Hill New South Wales – W.

D. Neil / Pugin and Co. Wexford – Kevin Spencer.

No. 9 1982-83

The Times and Life of Nicholas Sweetman, Bishop of Ferns (1744-1786) – Nicholas Furlong / Occupations Noted on some North and East Wexford Memorials – Brian Cantwell / The Holy Wells of Wexford – Gearóid O’Broin / The Famine Years in Co. Wexford – Dr Mary Gwinnell / Aspects of Social Life in Co. Wexford in 1885 – Fionnuala Nolan / Tacumshin Windmill — its history and mode of operation – Dr Austin O’Sullivan / The Slaney Gabard – Dr George Hadden / In Search of Korkeran – Richard Roche.

No. 10 1984-85

Some Aspects of the Economic Life of County Wexford in the Nineteenth Century – Dr Mary Gwinnell Preliminary Archaeological Excavations at Ferrycarrig Ringwork, Newtown Td., Co. Wexford – Isabel Bennett M.A. / The Colclough Family – Seán M. Cloney / County Wexford Priests in Newfoundland – Dr Kevin Whelan / The Tower of Hook – William Colfer / Occupations Noted on Some East and South Wexford Memorials

– Brian J. Cantwell / Garrylough Mill and the General Development of Water Mills in Co. Wexford – Dr Austin O’Sullivan.

No. 11 1986-87

 

The Sites and Monuments Record for Co. Wexford; an Introduction – Geraldine Stout / An Account of the Baronies of Forth and Bargy in 1814 – Kevin Whelan. / Excavations at the site of MacMurrough Castle, near New Ross, Co. Wexford – Claire Cotter / The Secrets of Carnsore – Richard Roche, FRSAI / Two 18th Century Wexford Newspapers – Ian Cantwell / Irish Catholics before the Famine: Patterns Questions – Mons. Patrick J. Corish / The German Mining Operation at Bannow Bay, 1551-’52 – Des Cowman / Occupations noted on some South and West Wexford Memorials – Brian J. Cantwell, FIGRS, FRSAI / Reminiscences of a Wexford Filmgoer 1923-1928 – Liam O’Leary.

No. 12 1988-89

 

‘Immensity Confined’ Luke Waddinge, Bishop of Ferns – Celestine Murphy / ‘The Dunkirk of Ireland’; Wexford privateers during the 1640s – Jane H. Ohlmeyer / Two Early Eleventh Century Viking Houses from Bride Street, Wexford, and the Layout of Properties on the Site – Edward C. Bourke M.A. / Co. Wexford and the French Revolution – Nicholas Furlong, F.R.S.A.I. / New Light on Co. Wexford Architecture and Estates in the 17th Century – Rolf Loeber, Ph.D. / An Officer’s Memoir of Wexford in 1798 – Thomas Bartlett / The Keeragh Islands: A Review – Jim Hurley / Some Stone Artefacts of South West Wexford – Sean Cloney / Kiltennel Church, Gorey, Co. Wexford

– Kevin Spencer.

No. 13 1990-91

Medieval Wexford – Billy Colfer / Date, Chronology and Evolution of the County Wexford Tower House – Dr A.J. Jordan / The Boxwells: A Planter Family – Helen Skrine

/ The ‘Black Mob’ and the ‘Babes in the Wood’: Wexford in the Wake of Rebellion, 1798- 1806 – Daniel J. Gahan / The Meyler Manuscripts – Richard Roche / The Life of a Wexford Gentleman 100 years ago – Nicky Rossiter / A Forgotten County Wexford Industry – Bernard Browne / An Early Eighteenth Century House: Clonegal Rectory, County Carlow – Rolf Loeber and Kevin Whelan / Wexford Corporation’s Eighteenth Century Leases.

No. 14 1992-93

Golden Jubilee Message – Nicholas Furlong / Sowing the Whirlwind – Brian Cleary / The Foundation of the Cistercian Abbey of Dunbrody, Co. Wexford and its historical context

• Ian Doyle / A Glimpse of Bagenal Harvey – Helen Shrine / Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s Wexford Speech: Prelude to an Assassination – Bernard Browne / The Hessians – Sean Cloney / A Humiliating Defeat for Richard J. Devereux – Hilary Murphy / The Right Hon. Arthur McMurrough Kavanagh M.P. – Revd Dr R.B. McCarthy / The Rise and Fall of Norse Wexford – Dr Edward Culleton.
  

No. 15 1994-95

 

The Famine Years in Forth and Bargy – Richard Roche / Solving a Wartime Fuel Crisis in Co.Wexford – Jim Parle / The Spirit of ’98 Awakened – Anna Kinsella / John Barry: The Forgotten American Hero – Bernard Browne / A Divided Family in 1798: The Grays of Whitefort and Jamestown – David Goodall / The Results of a Resistivity Survey undertaken at Clonmines, Co. Wexford – Martin E. Byrne / South-West Wexford in 1798

• Sean Cloney / Wexford Workers First United, 1843 – Hilary Murphy / The Roman Catholic Parish Registers of Wexford Town from c1672: Some considerations of their significance and use in Historical Research – Celestine Rafferty / Memories of Colonel Jonas Watson; Ed. – Hilary Murphy / Letter to the Editor.

No. 16 1996-97

 

1798: Memory, History, Commemoration – Tom Dunne / A Wexford Gentleman Piper: ‘Famous Larry Grogan’ – Sean Donnelly / Euseby Cleaver, Bishop of Ferns, and the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the 1798 Rising in Co. Wexford – Patrick Comerford / Wexford Workhouse in Famine Times, (1842-1849) – Eddie Carty / James Caulfield, Bishop of Ferns (1786-1814) – Dr P.J. Corish / Pierces of Wexford – Austin M.

O’Sullivan / The Effects of the Great Famine (1845-1849) on the County Wexford Parish of Bannow/Ballymitty – Margaret Unwin / A Study of The Ballad Lore of Wexford – Gearóid Ó Broin / A Templar’s Tomb – Sean Cloney / A note on the Scottish Presbyterians of Duncannon – Ivan Ward.

No. 17 1998-99

Rebellion mortality in Wexford in 1798 – Louis Cullen / Transatlantic Disaffection: Wexford and Newfoundland, 1798-1800 – John Mannion / The Outbreak of Rebellion in Northern and Central Wexford, 23-26 May, 1798 – Daniel Gahan / Conflicts of Loyalty: the Dixons and Le Hunte’s Cavalry in 1798 – David Goodall / Robert Carty of Birchgrove – Jim Doyle / Edward Fitzgerald of Newpark – Ruán O’Donnell / Jeremiah

Fitzhenry: ‘a chief who knew how to command’ – William Sweetman / Edward Hay, Wexford Historian of 1798 – Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh / Edward Roche of Garrylough – Tom Williams / Memory of the Dead: New Ross and Scullabogue, 5 June 1798 – Tom Dunne / Who feared to speak in 1898?; Anna Kinsella / A 1798 ambush – Seán Cloney.

No. 18 2000-2001

The Selskar Iron Works – Mairéad Maume / A Mulrankin Mystery – Eithne Scallan / Bishop Ricards and Dean Croghan: The contrasting tale of two Wexford missionaries in South Africa – Patrick Comerford / Keening in Co. Wexford – Richard Roche / Mrs David Beatty Died Twice? – J. Leslie Boxwell /Freemasonry in County Wexford – Ivan Ward / The Town of Wexford and the Railways – Ernie Shepherd / The Band of the Wexford Militia, c. 1900 – F. Glenn Thompson / A County Wexford Palatine Family – Lester J. Hartrick / What’s in a Field Name? – Seán Rattigan / The Rowes of Spawell Road – David Rowe / Some Old Wexford Banks – late T.D. Sinnott / Wexford Weisford Viksfjord Wiksford: a different interpretation – Jim Jenkins / Letter to the Editor.

No. 19 2002-03

 

The Star Iron Works – I.M. Hearn / Ballingale Poultry Farm and Gardening School – Mary Forrest, Valerie Ingram / The Burning of Ballynastragh, 9/3/23 – Terence A.M. Dooley / Land Commission Eviction Notices in South Wexford in 1936 – J Leslie Boxwell / Lost Lanes and Hidden Treasures – Nicky Rossiter / Robinstown Great Stone Circle – Bernard Browne / The County Wexford ‘Nocents’ and the Irish Court of Claims of 1663 – Lawrence J. Arnold / Copy of Commission appointing Michael Kavanagh Commissioner of Oaths in 1881 – Hilary Murphy / The Palatine Families of New Ross – Lester J. Hartrick / The House that Jack, Bryan or Jeremiah Built – Tom McDonald / The Wexford Rebels of ’98 in the Folk Memory of County Meath – Eamon Doyle.

No. 20 2004-05

 

Colonial Begginings: Lord Baltimore’s Irish Experience – John Mannion / The Semples and St. Selskar’s – Étain Murphy / Thomas D’Arcy McGee and his Sisters and Brother in Ireland, America and Australia – Brendan and Jenny Meegan / Richard Pierce: Architect and Acolyte of the Gothic Revival – Barry O’Leary / The Origins of the Goffs of Horetown House – David Ian Hamilton / Indian Incident – Eamon Doyle / The Trial of John Bryan of Toberone – Billy Sweetman / What’s in a Field Name? — A Reply – Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich / The Rams of Gorey – Lester J. Hartrick / The last pre- Reformation Bishop of Ferns and his ‘nephew’, the Dean of Ossory – Patrick Comerford / The Historian of ‘Ballymackasy’ – Tom McDonald / Archaeological Excavations in Co.

Wexford – Isobel Bennett / Church Site at Templenacroha – Emmett Stafford / Excavation of a Limekiln at Danescastle – Cóilín Ó Drisceoil.

No. 21 2006-07

The Franciscans in County Wexford – Fr Patrick Conlan, o.f.m. / Thomas Cloney Letters, 1815-1819, Auctioned in America in 2001 – John Joyce / A Wexford Sailor in 1915 – Nicky Rossiter / Richard Grandy: Villain or Victim of 1798? – David Ian Hamilton / Richard Pococke’s Tour through County Wexford, 1752 – Celestine Rafferty / Paulstown and 1798 – John J. Dunleavy / The Will and Codicil of John Knox Grogan, 1811 & 1813

– National Archives MS / The Wreck of the Demerary, Keeragh Islands, 1819 – Edward Bourke / Wexford Priests in ‘Sensational’ Baptism Litigation – Hilary Murphy / The Wexford Infirmary: Rebecca Anne Boxwell, Matron 1846-1864 – Tom Lambert / The Shouting Down of Fr Thomas Furlong – Tom McDonald / John Redmond — Parnellite and Nationalist – Dermot Meleady / A Portrait of Monastic Wexford – Dr Aidan Breen / Archaeological Excavation of a Nineteenth Century Shipwreck Victim at Hook Head – Cóilín Ó Drisceoil / Festival Tours: The Story – Eithne Scallan / Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses in County Wexford, 1826-27; Irish Education Inquiry,1826, NLI.

No. 22 2009-10

Styled ‘boy-bishop’ of Ferns: the life and turbulent times of James Keating, 1783-1849 – Celestine Rafferty / The Palatines of Wexford – Bernard Browne / Before the War: Wexford in the Summer of 1914 – Nicky Rossiter / Pedigree and History of the Colclough Family – Gay Conroy, M.A. / Thomas David Sinnott (1893-1965) – Tom Williams / Co.

Wexford Newspapers – Gerry Breen / The Origins of the Suttons of Longraigue – David Ian Hamilton / The Maidens Dancing at Boro Hill – Tom McDonald / The Wexford Catholic Young Men’s Society – Eithne Scallan / General Sir Henry Johnson’s great- grandson, Lionel Johnson – John J. Dunleavy / Lives of the poets: Moore and Byron – Tom Mooney / The Making of Wexford Opera House – Matt O’Connor / The Franciscan Noviciate in Wexford 1805-22 – Fr Patrick Conlan, o.f.m. / Some Family Memories – F. Glenn Thompson / Early 1890s Wexford: Class, Party and Conspiracy – Pádraig G. Lane

/ From the Harrow to Wexford Town – Daniel Gahan / Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses in County Wexford, 1826-27 – Hilary Murphy.

 

No. 23 2011-12

 

James Comerford (1817-1902): rediscovering a Wexford-born Victorian stuccodore’s art

– Patrick Comerford / The ballad of the Kilrane boys: a story of emigration to Argentina from County Wexford – Paddy Berry / Lorenzo Dow: an American Methodist minister in Wexford – Bernard Browne / Doctor Hadden of Wexford – Eithne Scallan / The wild justice of revenge: agrarian unrest in County Wexford – Tom McDonald / A poet of the Liberties – Liam Gaul / The Suttons of Longraigue — Part I – David Ian Hamilton / James G Delaney (1916-2000) —scholar and folklore collector – Tom Williams / Dr Toddy Pierse and Mount George, Wexford – Tom Pierce / Michael Hayes — 1798 Convict — Part I – William Sweetman / A response to Dr Tom Dunne – Nicholas Furlong

/ Wexford apprentices in sixteenth-century Bristol – Niall O’Brien / Experiences of a walking tour guide – Monica Crofton.

No. 24 2012-13

 

The cult of St Catherine of Alexandria – Edward Culleton / Harassment and murder during the War of Independence – Edward J. Law / Suttons of Longraigue, part II – David Ian Hamilton / The history and archaeology of Limerick Village, Co. Wexford – Aidan Harte / The results of some excavations undertaken in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford – Catherine McLoughlin and Emmet Stafford / The Lords and Ladies of Wexford, AD 1247-1536 – Brian Coleman / Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton: A County

Wexford Mammalogist – Bernard Browne / Josiah Hort (1674?-1751), Bishop of Ferns’ A Rake, a Bully, a Pimp, or Spy’ and ‘Bp Judas’ – Patrick Comerford / Some mills of Wexford Town – Eamon Doyle / Tom Boyse’s high steeple – Tom McDonald / Michael Hayes — 1798 convict, part II – Billy Sweetman / The Wexford Gas Consumers’ Company Limited — a history, Part 1 – Tom Pierse / In Appreciation: Dr Billy Colfer – Dr Kevin Whelan.

No. 25 2014-15

Robert Brennan (1881-1964) Fact and Memoir – Nicholas Furlong / From peasants to plantation owners: Peter Cottom of Newbawn and his family – John Patterson and David Ian Hamilton / Henry Bate Dudley (1745-1824): the ‘fighting parson’ who retained an affection for his County Wexford parish – Patrick Comerford / Civil War claims restored

– Hilary Murphy / John Barry: Wexford politician and linoleum manufacturer – Bernard Browne / Prisoners in Enniscorthy Castle during the Civil War period – Kieran Costello / The ‘uncultivated and wild mountaineers’ on the White Mountain: – Tom McDonald / Captain G.H. Fitzgerald (1886-1914) Quis Separabit – Alice McDermott and Mark Power

/ On Saint Senán, Enniscorthy and other issues – Greg Devlin / A nuclear power station for Carne Get to the Point! – Tom Ryan.

No. 26 2016-17

The 1798 courts martial revisited: Co. Wexford Trials of 1798 – Louis M. Cullen / ‘What round tower?’ the restoration of the Crimean War monument at Ferrycarrig, Wexford – Paul Huddle / Seaplanes on the Slaney in 1918 – Liam Gaul / The Huguenots of Wexford

– Carmel Foley / Peter Ffrench (1844-1929): a Bannow politician – Bernard Browne / Emigration from County Wexford in the 19th century – Ray Corish / The late-seventeenth and eighteenth-century owners of Wells House, Ballyedmond, Gorey – Sally Finn-Kelcey

/ Butlerstown Castle: a Wexford tower house in focus – Tomás Corish / A note on the excavation of an Early Bronze Age cremation pit at Mersheen, Hook Peninsula, Co. Wexford – Cóilín ÓDrisceoil and Linda Lynch / Letters from Wexford: the search for Leitch ancestors – John Leitch and Gloria Binions / Letter to the Editor – Nicholas Furlong.

No. 27 2018-19

 

A Centennial Memoriam – Bernard Browne / From Wexford to the World – Nicholas Rossiter / I Was Just Passing – Eithne Scallan / The Scandinavians of Wexford: Place name analysis with particular reference to Forth Barony – Prof. William J. Smyth / Fr. John Redmond, a priest of the 1798 Insurrection – William Sweetman / The sad mystery of Stoker Petty Officer James Leach CGM – James W. Taylor / Earl William Marshal and Countess Isabella – Brian Matthews / Imaging the ’98 smith: Fiction’s Creation of an Iconic Figure – Pádraig G. Lane / A Roche Family Maritime Tradition – William Roche / Alderman Richard Corish T.D., (1886-1945) Mayor of Wexford – Helen Corish-Wylde.

No. 28 2020-2021

 

Wexford Town in Twenty-Two – Nicholas Rossiter / Mariner, Politician and Mayor of Wexford – a memoir – Peter Roche / Letterboxes around Wexford an Insight – Eithne Scallan / The Office of Mayor – Through Fire and Water – Padge Reck / Fintan

O’Connor, Solicitor:- Early Years in the Irish Revolutionary Period – John Gerahy / Massacre on Wexford Bridge in 1798 – Sarah Culleton / The Bantry Girls Lament for Johnny – Paddy Berry / Toddy Pierse’s Scores for Wexford – Tom Pierse / Postcard to my grandfather – Anne Delaney / Francis Carty – Wexford Newspaperman and Revolutionary – Bernard Browne / WEXFORD – a poem – Eamon Doyle / Selskar Church: A symbol of a declining population – Rosemary Hartigan / Folly in the garden: a small scale Tower House in the fassagh of Bantry – Jeremy Hill / History through the lens – Denise O’Connor-Murphy / A Journey through the Journals – Liam Gaul.

No. 29 2022-2023

Foreword by WHS Chairman – Patrick Hackett / A Wexford couple of many stages-Brian Trench / Edenvale abounds with nature – Joe Neal  / Thomas Drummond served adopted country faithfully – Ray Corish / Is there a Promontory Fort hiding at the top of Parnell Street, Wexford? – Reiltin Murphy / Before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its shoes – Jackie Hayden / A rare Wexford bookplate – Bernard Browne / The end of an era: The auction of the contents of Johnstown Castle in 1944 – Matt Wheeler and Duncan Laurence / Political change in New Ross, 1727-32 – David Hayton / An amazing discovery – Eamon Doyle / Full circle with Heaney – Tom Mooney / PR Hanrahan – more than initials – Jim Cowman

A used shed in Co. Wexford –  John Garahy /  Archaeological findings on the N25 New Ross bypass –  Tom Meharg, Tim Coughlan and Paul Stevens /

Nicholas Furlong – A man for all seasons – Bernard Browne /

Liam Gaul, a proud Wexford man –  Michael Kelly