Month: May 2016

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Athboy Times Past – Vol. 3

Sad Fatality at Athboy Man Falls from Church Roof The above is the heading of a story from The Meath Chronicle, 31st October 1914, which describes an unfortunate accident at St. James's R.C. Church, Athboy in which a workman fell to his death while working on the roof. It appears that the Church roof was …

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The Athboy Railway Station

At a meeting of the inhabitants of the neighbourhoods of both Trim and Athboy in June of 1846, the motion was brought up that both towns would benefit from the construction of a railway line connecting the towns to Dublin. Athboy was, in the 1830s and 1840s, a place of very little trade and improvements …

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The Lawrence Collection

Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland
Lawrence Collection Photograph circa 1901 Courtesy National Library of Ireland