Kennedy Colclough interactions, some of them.

Kennedy Colclough interactions.

Copied from  Original document from Bernard Colclough of Waterford (my uncle JC) private collection.

June 1785, County of Wexford.

Whereas it appears by a Constat of An Inquisition returned into this Court from his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas taken before Sir Edward Loftus Bart. of the said County at Moneyhore in the said County the 14th day of June 1784 that Sir Vesey Colclough of Tintern Abbey in the County of Wexford Bart. was on the 10th Day of May in the 21st year of his present majesty's reign outlawed in the City of Dublin in a plea of debt at the suit of John Kennedy on which day the said Sir Vesey Colclough was seized and possessed as his Estate in fee of and in the towns and lands of Scraughmore, Ryland, Kearn otherwise Keamtigue, Scahana, Ballylusk, Mangan, demesne of Tintern, Coolacarney, Kyle, Glaslacan, Coolree, Glebe of Taghmon, Castletown, Chapaelanane, Newtown, Priestown, and rent charged on Killoughrom, all which said land are situated lying and being in said County of Wexford and which said lands are of the yearly value of five pounds sterling in all profits beyond reprisals, which into his majesty hands the said Sheriff had taken and seized. Now upon motion of Mr. B. Thomas, Attorney on behalf of the said John Kennedy, moving on the said constat and praying that a Custodium of the said premises may be granted to the said John Kennedy, the said Sir Vesey Colclough being outlawed at his suit as aforesaid, whereupon and on reading the said constat, it is this day ordered whereupon by the Court that the Clerk of the Pipe do make out a Custodium of the said Premises to the said John Kennedy to continue during his Majesty's pleasure at the yearly rent of 5d over and above the yearly rent and arrears payable thereout to his majesty and that the chief remembrancer do issue an Injunction for putting the said John Kennedy or his assigns into the actual and quite possession of said premises whereof all officers and persons concerned are to take notice.             

A true copy W.A.Hutchinson

 Kennedy against Colclough, Duplicate of Custodian,  

Copy order dated 15th June 1785.

27 August 1792                               

Caesar Colclough, Paris to John Colclough, Wexford about the present state of the Revolutionary Wars and about his financial affairs.

‘I now begin to fear for the liberty of these people, as the combined armies have taken several towns on the frontiers and are marching towards Paris, which now begins to dread their approach and many who can quit it will, but there is at present no possibility of doing that, as all the posts are guarded, and no one suffered outside of the barriers.

When the conspirators shall all be taken, then the passports will be returned, and then I intend going to Rouen in Normandy, ready to pass into England in case any fracas should take place between England and France. There is at present no likelihood of such, but if by accident or design anything should happen to the royal family here, I fear George will contrive to join in the general suppression of liberty. Some thing is wanting much here. Really, there is too much licentiousness(?).

Have you received Kennedy’s note which I enclosed to you from London. You never mentioned one word of it. £34 would be too serious a loss not to merit of its caution. Have you received my money from John Colclough, and did not Rowe pay you the year’s annuity. (Sentence underlined for purpose of the subsequent lawsuit.) Send as much as you can to London, as I am sure of it there, and can have it from that, be where I may (?). Should I be obliged to quit this, it will cost me a great deal, and oblige me to sell my things at a great loss. Remember me to my mother and all my friends.’

23 November 1795   

John Colclough to Caesar Colclough, Lausanne,  reporting that the lawsuit against Richards has again unexpectedly gone against them, but the suit against Kennedy has gone in their favour, in spite of the fact that the jury which tried both was composed of virtually the same people.  The success in the Kennedy suit was in large measure due to the fact that one of the jurors was a relation of Peter Burrows.  John Colclough is now engaged in buying out the leasehold interest possessed by his name sake (not Uncle) John Colclough, who is ’the only one of the name’ who deserves any consideration from, and whom therefore he does not want to deal harshly with. He goes on to give an unflattering picture of the professional ability of (Jonah) Barrington.  ‘... Keogh is a great rascal. He does nothing but exclaim against us for bringing the ejectments.  John Colclough was going to kick him.  Only think at the trials of his fixing himself up by the judge, and whenever there was anything he thought that made against us, he would say to the judge, ”That is very strong, my Lord”. This is all because we did not employ Barrington, and the reason why I did not employ him is that although our house was always open to him, and we paid him every compliment in our power, he never had the manners, as often as I have been in Dublin for months together these four years past, either to call or ask me to eat a bit in his house. In truth, I was glad of an excuse not to employ him, for he is the stupidest man in Ireland.’

Letter from Caesar of Tintern to John Kennedy, 15th June 1840.

  Strictly Confidential, P.S. 

Finding I had time to spare ‘ere this can be put into the office, and finding I had subject matter to continue, I have made an extract of Mr. Goff’s half yearly accounts, so far as regards the expenditures of improvements he says cost him so much, and also the credits on his part for the dilapidation of my woods, as if money, money, money was wanting for my gratification.  But nothing can compensate for destroying my mother's Serpentine Walk. I was but 6 years old when the 12 trees now alluded to, were by her planted, my brother 10 months younger (now 69 years ago) and the last we knew of parental care, my father abandoned us all, went off in his Yacht, took up with a Welsh girl, Betty Watson, in Haverford West, and abandoned himself to dissolute habits, leaving my mother, self, and brother dependent on my grandfather Grogan for existence, yet, the trees my mother planted were the only produce of his vast estates he respected.  My brother, to the day of his death added to and cherished them, Burrows and McCord embezzled 36 thousand pounds of my revenues (from the 9th of June 1803 to the 26th of July 1841) and sent me £500 British- they still respected my trees. It remained to J Goff Esquire J. P. District Governor to make my 75th year the saddest of all my adventurous career, but as you say-what is done cannot be undone.

 In haste yours etc.,

Sir Jonah Barrington in his description of the seven Baronets of the House of Commons, amongst whom he includes Sir Vesey, thus alludes to him: “Sir Vesey Colclough, member for County Wexford, who understood books and wine better than any of the party had all of his days treated money so extremely ill that it would continue no longer in his service, and the dross, as he termed it, having entirely forsaken him, he bequeathed an immense landed property during his life, to the uses of custodiums, elegits, and judgments, which never fail to place a gentlemen's acres under the special guardianship of the attorneys. Sir Vesey added much to the pleasantry of the party, by occasionally forcing on them deep subjects of literature, of which few of his companions could make either head or tail, but to avoid the imputation of ignorance they often gave the most ludicrous proofs of it on literary subjects geography and Astronomy, with which he eternally bored them,”

Sir Vesey was neither Knight nor Baronet, and I am not certain which title he assumed, but he maintained to the last that he was Sir Vesey Colclough, challenged everyone who question it, and fought several duels on that score, but as will be seen by the pedigree he was descended, as I am (Beauchamp Henry Dudley Colclough, Lieut. Col. in the Wexford Militia born at Drummondville, Lower Canada, 9th April 1822 who is now (was then) the lineal Heir Male and representative of Sir Anthony Colclough, and through him of Richard Colclough of Staffordshire, living 40 Edward III (1367).), from a younger brother of the first Baronet of the family. Sir Vesey’s eldest son 

Caesar, (now known as the Testator) and who succeeded him, had gone to France at an early age to avoid joining his father in opening the entail. He was a Detainee there at the time of his father's death, and for many years afterwards, and the younger son John undertook the management of the Estates, and the recovery of such parts as could be recovered. His father’s apartments in the castle having become uninhabitable, he fitted up rooms for himself at the western, or entrance end of the abbey, which were afterwards added to by the agents, Mr. Goff and Mr Kennedy, and latterly by Mr. Rossborough Colclough and which formed the dwelling place of the family. John repaired the old monks dam, and built a flouring mill, and a high wall around the garden, planted trees, to replace the timber cut down and sold by Sir Vesey's orders, roofed and repaired the Crypt which had been formerly the passage from the Abbots House to the Church, and endeavoured as much as was in his power to make the place a fit residence for a gentleman. He also entered into partnership with a bank in New Ross and sought to retrieve the fortunes of the house in every way, but his law expenses in the different suits brought to recover parts of the property that had been made away with by his father, and in which he was only partially successful, and the expenses of contested elections, kept his financial affairs always at a low ebb. He was member for the County for many years, and finally lost his life in an election duel with Mr. William Alcock of Wilton in 1807.

This duel and the death of John Colclough, with the continued absence of Caesar in France left the estate being run by agents, one of which was a Kennedy, a large sum of money it was said became unaccounted for but no proof perhaps of guilt. The persisting idea was that the subsequent impressive American journey of the Kennedy’s was linked to Caesar Colclough, James Kennedy being dismissed by Jane (Kirwan) Colclough the above Caesar’s wife. But the machinations of those days would form the basis of a PhD study in itself.

 Onto a place name my dad would have known.

Killanne, Co. Wexford was the place where my dad would have spent some of his formative years, sent away from the town due to illness, off to his cousins in the countryside. There are still strong connections there. I’ve been there a few times, looking at graveyards! One time nearly, 30years ago, I went, I asked about my dad, I even went up to the farmstead where the Colclough’s were, no one was home though. I think word got to them there was a stranger about asking about Colclough’s (I would have said I wasn’t after anything, just to speak about my dad). Land is precious it seems. All sold now I think.
Photo below was taken by Bernie circa 1996, a few years after I called. Typical farmhouse of the 19th century. Sold stone walls, probably damp but generations of my family would have been there. 

Who doesn't know the PJ McCall song - Kelly the boy from Killanne.

John

John’s here’s a small trawl of John up to the end of the 18^th century. The italics are mine. JC

Colclough, originally spelled Coldcloughley, literally “The place of the Cold Rocky Valley”, descriptive there can be little doubt of the residence of the family at the time when surnames first came into use, as the following extract, treating of the composition of family names and taken from Elvin’s anecdotes of Heraldry page 172, will exemplify.

“It is only in fact with respect to compound names that we are justified in saying that a family name is derived from that of a locality, for then the very composition in a manner defines the place, and if the natural characteristics of that place be mentioned in it, proof is at once afforded that the family name is posterior to the local term. Thus for instance the Arms of Ernle County Sussex, an Argent, on a bent sable, three eagles displayed or, and they have a reference to the family which is taken from a village so called from the Saxon ”Erne” an Eagle, and ”leye” a place or habitation. Now from the peculiar situation of this village, the propriety of the term “Eagles Place”, as applied to it is obvious and there can be no reasonable doubt that the Ernle family (being at first called William, John, or whatever the name might be ) de Ernleigh, gradually dropped the “de” and took the local appellation for their surname. 

At what time the original spelling, ’Coldcloughley’ was altered and the letters of the final syllable dropped, it is now impossible to say; it must have been at an early period, but although the name has been variously spelled since, and sometimes phonetically as Cokely, Coakley or Cokelee, the original pronunciation has been invariably  retained. Ward in his “History of the Borough of Stoke upon Trent”, fixes the locality from which the family name is derived, at Oldcot in the Parish of Wolstanton, Staffordshire. Whether this is so or not I am not now in a position to say, an examination of the locality might decide the point. But certain it is that there were Colclough families there at the time of Edward III as the family were  possessed of considerable property in that neighbourhood and which was largely increased subsequently by the marriage of John Colclough of Bluerton Ist Edward V, with Agnes one of the co-heiress(es) of Lockwood.  

This John from the pedigree:

1483

John Colclough of Bluerton. (Ingleton) in County Stafford who married I Edward V (1483) Agnes daughter and co-heiress of Richard Lockwood of Lockwood, and had four sons, viz...   

1. Richard his heir.  

2. Thomas of Delphe House see Collateral D.  (More of which another time). 

3. John,     

4.   Ralph see Collateral, E1.

This John, the grandfather of Sir Anthony…

Sir Anthony’s 5th son was John born circa 1565.

Sir Anthony’s  grandson was  

John of Pouldairig, (living 1642) who married Katherine daughter of Sir Walter Sinnott  Knight, son and heir of Richard Sinnott of Ballybrittas alias Rosegarland Co. Wexford, Esq.,(Knight of the Shire in 1559) and died before May 1649 leaving issue two sons and four daughters viz. 

1. Adam, died 1652,s.p. nuncupation Will dated 1652; 

2. Anthony, died young, s.p.

3. Mary married James Butler of Clough, same Co. Esq., of the  Barons Kayers family. 

4. Martha, married Thomas Cullen of Cullenstown. 

5. Clara, a nun. 

6. Katharine, died unmarried.

Sir Anthony’s great great grandson was:

 John, of St. Kearns and Wexford, a merchant who married 1730, Margaret daughter of Edward Sutton of Summerhill, Co. Wexford Esq., and died July 1770. Will proved 8th August following having issue two sons and one daughter:  

(1)    Thomas Francis, of Ballyteige Castle. Co.Wexford, who married 1769 Katherine dau. of Henry McMahon, of Clara, Co, Clare. Esqr and died 18th Dec. 1790 having had issue two sons and two daughters viz.

1.  Dudley Thomas, died unmarried v.p.

2. John Henry, of Ballyteige Castle, who married 1796, Elizabeth daughter of Joseph Berry of Ballykeely, Co. Wexford. John H. Colclough, was one of those hanged on the bridge of Wexford in the year 1798. Will proved 23rd October 1799. He had issue one daughter Elizabeth who married 1829, John George Young Esq., Lieut.18th Royal Irish. (John Henry also had issue a illegitimate son Thomas Colclough who was educated in Dublin, and was supposed to have emigrated to Montserrat in the West Indies.)

3 Margaret Anne, died unmarried

4 Mary Katherine, married to Colonel Jeremiah Fitzhenry of Borohill, Co. Wexford, had issue, she died 1859.

   (2). John, (son of John of Wexford)  also a merchant in the town of Wexford, married and emigrated about the year 1761, to the West Indies, (Montserrat), he had issue two sons and two daughters, viz.

1.  Dudley,     

2. John,

3.  Margaret,  

4.  Mary.

   (3) Mary, only daughter of John of Wexford, married Edward Devereux of Sallystown, Co Wexford, Esqr.

So onto a place name. Johnstown Castle:

This was the home of the Esmonde’s, from which Katherine married Sir Dudley Colclough of Monart.

Then later in the 18^th century noted as the home of John Grogan, whose daughter Catherine married 2nd August 1765  Portpatrick Scotland to  Vesey Colclough b1 July 1745. This Vesey was noted to have had a large number of ‘illegitimate ‘children in the Kiltealy area of Co.Wexford

 http://www.visitwexford.ie/locations/johnstown-castle

Seems a rather nice place go visit!

Interesting.

This a roundabout way but it is Interesting...

Robert Leigh of Rosegarland, married to Sir Caesar’s daughter, and eventual successor, gives a very interesting account of Sir Caesar’s possessions in that part of the County, his manuscript is published as I said before in the Kilkenny Archaeological Journal for 1858 /9, and need not be repeated here. He gives incidentally the inscription verbatim upon Sir Anthony’s Tomb, in the old Church at Tintern. It appears from Sir Caesar’s will – which w – that he had some years previous to its date, broken the entail on his property, with a view no doubt, to entailing on his daughter, in case his son should leave no issue and this, he accordingly did, providing, that she and her husband, and issue, should take the name of Colclough with remainders Duffry Hall, and his male issue with remainders over to testator's most remote male relations, and in default of such, the female succeeding to the Estates, to take name of Colclough, Sir Caesar was succeeded by his only son.

Sir Caesar the 3rd and last Baronet, of whom I have been able to learn absolutely nothing, except that he died unmarried three years after his father, and succeeded in his Estates by his only sister.  

Margaret, then the wife of Robert Leigh of Rosegarland which place was had been granted to his ancestor at the Restoration. Margaret who was a woman of mind and who possessed great personal attractions, appears to have been in every way worthy of representing her family. She, in accordance with her father's Will, and immediately after her brother's death, assumed the name of Colclough and managed the affairs of her estate with dignity and foresight. It is said that she invariably presided in person over the Baronial Court held under Charter in the Demesne. I am in possession of a plan of the Court House, the ground floor of which was used as a Market, and am indebted for it to my worthy old friend Richard Gill, now alas no more, and whose retentive memory was a storehouse of events connected with the family and place, and I now quote from one of his many letters to me, relative to past events promising however that I have thought it well to take some liberties with his grammar and spelling, with reference to the Court and Market House he says: “when young, this (the sketch) with many other things was drafted on a slate to commit to memory.

The loft floor was of oak, for the Manor Court, and for meetings of all sorts, especially theatricals. The ground floor was the Market, and on this two 8 pounders were kept mounted on carriages, and in front there was a space of 80 by 100 feet, kept clean and open, where bonfires were lit on rejoicing days. The full of that house was great. It occurred on the occasion of a rejoicing for Sir Vesey’s victory over Ram and Flood at an election for that County, which was about 1781.  

Madam Pigott during her time presided at Court every 21 days to hear cases connected with her tenants. She had a Chair for herself trimmed with crimson and blue. She also established a Funeral Committee of 30 persons, with scarfs and hat bands, black gloves, with a view of the Market House, with a woman to attend and care them. At this time she decorated the little Church in grand style, and gave the present Plate and Chalice.  It was she who took down the north boundary wall,(of the Abbey) and did away with the mounted Dragoons that should patrol around the Abbey, which was a principal injunction in Queen Elizabeth last letter to Sir Thomas. She (Madam P.) was called the Elizabeth of her day. After the destruction of the House, the Clerk of the Church had the care of the mourning cloths till the fatal year of ‘98, when they were included in the general destruction.”    A year after the death of her first husband, Margaret Leigh Colclough (better known locally as Madam Pigott) married as second wife to her cousin Councillor John Pigott of Kilfenny Co. Limerick, who also took the name of Colclough. A settlement was executed on the occasion of this marriage, which afterwards caused a great deal of unhappiness to the parties, in as much as, that failing issue, it gave the survivor the power of disposing of the estates, so that if Pigott survived he might, and probably would have, left them to his own issue by his first wife, a contingency that Madam Pigott in no wise approved of, and in case of accidents, as the story was told to me by Richard Gill, she one day in her husband's presence, took the deeds out of the strong box, and put them into the fire, remaining guard over them till they were consumed. This would not have availed her, for the Councillor had taken the precaution to have them registered, but eventually she had her own way, for as she herself was the survivor, she was enabled to carry out the darling wish of her heart by settling her estates on her cousin and male heir, Caesar of Duffry Hall, the grandson of Patrick, who was the first in remainder, under the will of Margaret’s father.  The difficulties between husband and wife, however, apparently smoothed over for she erected a handsome Tablet to his memory in Saint Paul’s Church, Dublin, and desired in her Will that in case she died in Dublin she should be placed beside her dear second husband.

A well-known and rather disreputable character in his day, Lord Altham, was a Tenant of Mrs Pigott Colclough’s at Dunmaine, and there the child was born, about whom in after days, there was so much litigation in connection with his claim to the Anglesey Tithe and Estates2. The evidence given on the trials was so conflicting that to this day I am unable to make up my mind whether the boy was Lady Altham’s son or not, but this at least is certain that Mrs. Colclough was his godmother. 

 I was in Wexford.

Now an I place, St. Iberius Church Wexford town. Built about 1660 possibly on an oratory site used by the St Iber. I think Oscar Wilde's forbearerers attended here. Some long time after them, last October (2017) on the way back from a sojourn around Fethard on Sea, and Tintern, I called in to St. Iberius church. I would say its well worth a visit. If you climb the stairs to the left as you go in you can sit on the Colclough seats looking down on the altar, there’s  a coat of arms, you can bask in family history.

Slán go fóill

John

Henry Colclough

The following is taken from Beauchamp’s reading of the Colclough Pedigree and will suffice my H’s, it was his life’s work to prove to himself and his heirs his lineage from Sir Anthony, needs to be read as such, but is useful for genealogy, there will I think be omissions which would not fit with the narrative, however there would not be overt fabrications as all would be verifiable, not mentioned here but in other parts would be fanciful connections to royalty…, not provable one way or the other JC 2018

Refer back to the 5th son of Dudley Colclough of Duffry Hall, by Mary Barnewall his wife, which fifth son, in whom is continued the male line of this family was:

 Henry Colclough, seated at Kildavin, Co. Carlow, born at Duffry Hall, circa 1705 who married licence 2nd September 1729, Margaret widow of Caleb Barnes Esq., and second daughter of John Beauchamp of Ballyloughan, Co. Carlow, Esqr., M.P. for many years for old Loughlin, by Katharine daughter of Bartholomew Vigors, Bishop of Loughlin, (Mrs. Colclough's sister Martha (Beauchamp) married the Rev. James Harvey of Killane, Co. Wexford, and was grandmother of Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey, the Rebel General in ‘98 and her younger sister Eleanor, married Walter Bagenal of Dunleckney, Co. Carlow. Esq., and was mother of the celebrated and eccentric Beauchamp  Bagenal of Dunleckney).

Henry Colclough died intestate 1770. His wife died 1779, (will proved 15th April) having had issue by her second husband four sons and one daughter viz (in red text JC).

1.  Dudley, of Bohermore, ob.sp. 1759, will proved 9th June.

2.  Beauchamp, of whom hereafter.

3.  Patrick Colclough of Kildavin, and Annnaville, Queens Co. Esq., Admitted an attorney 1763 married 16th June 1764 Anne sister of Robert Hartpole, of Shrule Castle, Queens Co. Esq., and died 1816, will proved 10th November 1818 leaving issue one son and one daughter viz.  

1.  Dudley Hartpole, Captain in the Green (Black ) Horse, disinherited by his father for having turned Quaker, died s.p.       

2. Margaret, married her cousin Sarsfield Colclough and issue.

4. Caesar Colclough of New Ross, Co. Wexford, and Athy Co. Kildare, (mad Caesar) married first, post nuptial settlement 19th June 1767 Anne, second daughter of Col. Caesar Colclough of Tintern, and had issue by him who died march 1769, one son viz.

Henry, who died a minor, s.p. administration granted to his father 30th March 1779.

Caesar married secondly (settlement 1775) Martha, daughter of the Rev. John Waring of the City of Kilkenny and died 1802. Will proved 22nd July 1802, having had issue by his second wife, who died January 1803 three sons and three daughters viz (blue text JC).       

1.  John, killed in a duel at New Ross by Henry Tottenham Esq., s.p.                                                                                            

2.  Charles, died, s.p.       

3.  Bagenal Colclough of St. Kerins, Tintern and afterwards of Montgomery State of Alabama, born 1781, married first at New Ross 1st August 1803, settlement same date, Elizabeth daughter of Thomas McCord of Wexford, Esq., and had issue by her who died March 1806, two sons  viz.   

1.  Caesar, died at Montgomery 1836, s.p.  

2. Thomas Robert, born January 1806 died 1843 s.p.

Bagenal Colclough married secondly (settlement 11th August 1808) Frances Muschamp, youngest daughter of Major Richard Colclough of Galway, and died at Montgomery, 3rd August,1853 having had issue by his second wife, who died 15th August 1852, three sons and six daughters, viz., (green text JC)

 1. John, born May 1809, Dispensary Doctor at Bannow Co. Wexford who married Henrietta daughter of Captain Perkins of Carlow, and died a few months after (March 1840) of Typhus fever, caught in the discharge of his professional duties, s.p.  

2.  Richard Augustus, born 1813 d. at Montgomery, April 11th 1865 s.p.  

3.  Bagenal, born 1820, died at Montgomery, July 1848 s.p. 

1.  Mary, born September 1810, married 1862, Dr. John J. Campion of Kilkenny.                               

2.  Katharine, born 1811.           

3.  Harriet, born Feby 1814,married G.H Jepson Esq., Professor of Music and died 2nd August, 1857, issue.           

4.  Frances, born December, 1817 ob. Calebs, September 1853.           

5.  Julia died unmarried September 1853.              

6.  Martha, born 2nd May 1823 married 1854 to Dr. James Boyd of Bannow Co. Wexford and died Jany 1859. issue.              

4.  Isabella (daughter of Caesar of New Ross) died young, March 1783.   

5.  Isabella (the second) married first July 4th 1812, John Holt Archer, Lieut. RN, son of William Archer of Wexford Esq., and secondly 24th March 1820 Captain William Watson. 94th Regt. and died without issue February 14th 1868.   

6.  Martha married, Richard A. Kidd of Wexford Esq., and died 1819, leaving one son issue since dead s.p.

5.Katharine (only daughter of Henry Colclough of Kildavin) married Edward Hill of Barn Hill, Co. Kildare Esq., issue 21 children…

Beauchamp Colclough of Bohermore Co. Carlow, eldest surviving son of Henry of Kildavin, born 1732, married 1760 Bridget daughter of John McCarty of Dublin and Lincoln’s Inns, London, Barrister at Law, by Harriet daughter of Edward Eustace of Castlemore, Co. Kildare Esq., and died 1766. Will dated 12th of April 1766. Will not proved (his wife died 30th March 1813, will dated 20th March 1813, not proved) issue two sons and one daughter viz. (orange text JC)

1.   Henry Colclough of Mount Sion, Co. Carlow an Officer in the 67th Regt. married first licence 20th  May 1783 (St. Peters Church, Dublin) Anne eldest daughter of Alexander Crawford of Millwood House, Co. Fermanagh by Connoly daughter of Christopher Carleton, Esq., and sister of Sir Guy Carleton (1st Lord Dorchester). He was High Sheriff of Carlow 44, George III, (1803 and commanded a Yeoman Corps in the Rebellion of 1798. He had issue by his first wife (who died in 1834) three sons and three daughters viz.  

1. Beauchamp Colclough of Mount Sion, 4th Light Dragoons and Major 13th Foot, married Harriet daughter of Henry Bethune Esq., by a Persian woman and died without issue November 26th 1858.   

2.  McCarty Guy, Lieut. 62nd Foot, and County Sub Inspector of Constabulary married 1825 Margaret daughter of James Cook of Kilkenny Esq., and died in Wexford 21st December 1860, s.p. (his wife died March 1851) Will proved 6th Feby 1861.  

3.  Henry Lieut. 60th Rifles, and Sub Inspector of Constabulary, died s.p. 1830. 

4.  Sarah  McCarty, married  James Butler of Carlow Esq., and died 20th January  1874. issue.  

5.  Catharine, married Colonel Richard Hill of the Battleaxe Guards, Dublin, and died 1820 leaving issue.  

6. Anne married----Timmons and died November 1858 without issue.

Henry Colclough (of Mount Sion-  JC 2018) married secondly 1835. Eliza, widow of Captain Hatton, by whom he had no issue, and died in 1836. Will proved 31st May 1836.

2. (Major) Beauchamp of Lower Kildavin Co. Carlow, and afterwards of Canada, North America, born posthumous 1766, a Captain in the Cavan Militia, and for many year’s a Brigade Major of Yeomanry. J.P. and High Sheriff, Co. Carlow, 54 George iii (1813). Married 1785 Catherine, youngest daughter of the before named Alexander Crawford and niece of Guy Lord Dorchester post-nup. settlement 9th September 1789, and died at Chippawa Upper Canada 9th December 1847. Will and Codicils proved in Dublin 29th May 1851. (his wife died November 22nd 1837) having had issue five sons and four daughters viz.

1.  Henry, Captain 3rd Buffs, married (settlement dated 1817) Susan daughter of John Stephens of Dublin Esq., and died without issue 1825, his widow died December 17th 1864.  

2.  Guy Carleton Colclough of Canada, Captain 103rd Regt. born 3rd August 1787, married at St. Barrys (Finbarr) Cork by licence 29th Sept. 1808, Elizabeth second daughter of Samuel Crampe of Mallow, Co. Cork, Esqr. (who died 6th March 1840). He died intestate at Port Francis, Lower Canada, November 16th 1837 (administration granted to Beauchamp Henry Colclough Prerog. Dublin January 25th 1851) and was buried at Sorel, leaving issue 4 sons and 4 daughters viz.   

1. Beauchamp H. D. now the heir male of this family of whom hereafter.            

2. Guy Carleton, born 1824 married at Poona, Bombay, 25th March 1847, Euphemia daughter of James Baine Esq., and died intestate from sun stroke at Kirkee, East India, November,21st November 1861, leaving issue a son viz.

                Henry William Carleton, born 1st July 1859, died s.p. at Khundiva, India, Novr 1st 1877.            

3. Christopher Crawford, ob.s,p, in India 1843.          

4. Henry Williams, drowned in the river Ganges 1845, s.p.           

5. Catherine, born 1809, married 22nd August 1829 William Ware of Quebec, Canada Esq., and died 1830 without issue.            

6. Henrietta Eliza, born at Kildavin 1811 married 30 April 1833, Samuel Waller M.D of Montreal Canada, younger brother of Sir Edmund Waller Bart. She died in 1885 and he died 1878 had issue.          

7. Susan Wilhelmina, married first 18th August 1866 Signor Maggioni and secondly ------ no issue.          

8. AnnaBella, married 1852 Alexander Nicholson of London Esq., issue. 

3.   John, born 1789, married Anne daughter of --Kinshella and died 24th June 1849 s.p. Will proved 21 August 1849, Prerogative, Dublin.

4.   Beauchamp Urquhart, of Elm Grove Co. Carlow, Lieut. Royal Dublin Militia married first 18th May 1827, settlement same date, Mary Anne daughter of Edward Jones Esq.,of Tullow Co. Carlow and had issue one son and one daughter viz.            

1. Beauchamp, born 1828 late Captain 2/19th Regt. married first at Rangoon India, 3 August 1865, Adelaide daughter of Rev. John Picope of Farnadow, Chester and had issue by her who died September 26th 1867,

a son Beauchamp Urquhart, C. B. E. (1918) of Green Acre, Surrey, Rear Admiral (S)  (retired 1923) born 18 February 1867, educated Portsmouth, Grammar School. He married first 1893 Anabel Mildred Anne (who died 11 May 1911) second daughter of Major Paymer George Cecil Gooch, 18th Foot, of Benacre and had issue.

             1. Henry Reginald Gampier of Camerton Court, Somerset, (in which he survived his cousin Miss Emily Elizabeth Jarritt) Lord of the Manor of Camerton, Patron of  two living, born 1905,                                                                        

1. Mildred Adelaide born 1895.                   

2. Eva Frederica. Admiral Colclough married secondly, Beatrice (she died 1945), daughter  of R.M. Pearson of Sydney New South Wales, Australia, and thirdly 1948 Emily Browne, and died 5 April 1949. issue not known.   

Capt. Beauchamp Urquhart married secondly at Bangalore India 9th February 1869 Jane, daughter of Barton Hill Esq., M.D., of Russell Square London, by whom he had issue two daughters and a son viz.               

1. Ellen (Nellie)         born----1871               

2. Margaret Augusta born-----1876  both died young.               

3. Dudley Carleton born 28th May,1879.  

Capt. Beauchamp married thirdly, 28 August 1884 Catherine Augusta widow of Captain C.C.B.Tribe, 19th and 94th Regiment, daughter of John B. Jones C.E. Issue a daughter Mary Ellen.

2. Mary Ellen, born-------------------- 1830?

Beauchamp Colclough (of Elm Grove) married secondly 5th August 1835, settlement same date Jane, daughter of Richard Robinson, M.D, and died 1845, Will proved in Dublin same year (his second wife died 18th June 1858) issue a son and four daughters viz.             

1. Henry, born 1843.             

2. Catherine (Kitty) Crawford married the Rev. Ireland Jones and died 3rd July 1877, issue.              3. Wilhelmina Robinson, married 1st January 1861 Frederick Thomas Humphrey, Captain, J.S. Corps, issue.             

4. Selina Eustace, married 1866, John Barlow Esq., and has issue             

5. Georgina, married 1st March 1863 William H. Batt. of Dublin, Solicitor and died in Canada 1876, leaving issue.

5. Alexander Samuel, youngest son of Major B. Colclough died intestate in Canada 1830, s.p.

6. Maria died unmarried 1840.

7. Arabella died young.

8. Bridget married 1821 as his first wife, William Henry Hamilton, of Stansted Lower Canada, Esqr Collector of Customs (younger son of Charles Hamilton of Hamwood, Co. Meath, Esq.,) and died 1828, leaving issue.

9.  Harriet, married 1829 Samuel Ussher Esq.,of Quebec, Barrister at Law and died 1842, leaving issue.

3.  Bridget, (only daughter of Beauchamp Colclough of Bohermore) married first licence 16th September. 1783, Captain George Urquhart (66th Regt afterwards Lieut. Col) of Meldrum and Bythe, Aberdeen Shire. Chief of his Clan, and had issue a son viz.

Beauchamp Colclough of Urquhart.

She married secondly, Major Allen Cameron, and died … leaving issue one son and one daughter.

I hope all this makes sense, following on would be: Beauchamp Henry Dudley Colclough, Lieut. Col. in the Wexford Militia born at Drummondville, Lower Canada, 9th April 1822.  The pursuit of lineage and Bernie’s search and Gay Conroys editing, we owe the debt, a few years ago I put it (the pedigree) all into excel, if anyone would like to see that I would try to attach it but it doesn’t fit well into the blog format.

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This is a very convoluted place name link but the Houses of Parliament hosted a number of Colclough’s.

Including:

Richard Colclough. MP. Newcastle-under-Lyme circa 1360

John Colclough . MP. Newcastle-under-Lyme 1384 and 1390

William Colclough . MP. Newcastle-under-Lyme various between 1384-1397

Hugh Colclough  . MP. Newcastle under Lyme 1407

Richard Colclough. MP.  Newcastle under Lyme 1414

Sir Caesar Colclough (Tintern), . MP. Newcastle under Lyme 1661

John Colclough. MP.  Co.Wexford  1806, 1807

Caesar Colclough . MP. Co.Wexford  1806 1818-1820.

Ádh mór ort

Tóg go bog é

John

Grandee pt. 2 The original Irish Grandee

Some information on Sir Anthony, the original grandee.

Journal of the Acts of the Council. Dublin Castle. 16th December 1581.  
Order by the Lord Deputy and Council.    
We have thought it expedient for the better bridling of the dismembered Septs of the Cavenaghes, bordering upon the Counties of Wexford, Kilkenny & Catherlogh, to erect & build a fort at St.Molins Mete for a Government Garrison to be lodged there for the defence and quiet of those borders. Towards the building and setting uppe, the several inhabitants of the County Wexford have already of their own freewill and awarde gelded and paid and used to give and geld and paid in to the hands of Anthony Colclough Esqr., the sum of £200 sterling, for as the charge and expense of the building and erecting of the said forte will be estimation amount to a farr greater sume which we think not reasonable should lye wholly upon her Majesty considering the continuall charge her Highness be at, the maintteynninge of the Garrison to be placed there, and the Counties of Kilkenny & Catherlogh are to receive and enjoye the benifit and comoditie of the quiet which is likely to ensure upon the success of that garrison if placed there, and also the Citie of Waterford and the towne of Kilkenny by reason of the security that will growe thereby to the trade with both the one and the other hath upon that River.  And which in that place was heretofore wanted to be ympeached & let by spoile & robbing of the Merchants & boats trading uppon the same.  We have therefore thought good, and do thereby condiscend, concludee & agree that the Countie of Kilkenny shall boarde and paie-towards the building of the said forte, the like sume of £200 sterling, & as the Countie of Wexford hath borne & paid, & the Countie of Catherlogh likewise the sume of £50 sterling, & we to make uppe the full sume of £315 sterling which is suppose by estimate to be the least that will be expended in the said building, that the Citie of Waterford shall bear & paie the sume of 100 Marks sterling. For the levying of which several sumes ammounting in the whole to the foresaid sume of £350 sterling. Accordingly our pleasure is there shall be Warrants dyrected as well to the Sheriffs of the foresaid Counties, as to the Officers of the said Citie of Waterford & Towne of Kilkenny, the same to be delivered & paid to the hands of the said Anthony Colclough Esqr to whom we have committed the same, & charge of that mark, to be by him disbursed uppon the sd building by account given at Dublin this 16th daie of Dec 1581.
R.Gormanstown.   J. Trimleston.                   Robert Dillon.   H. Wallop.                 Christ Malby.  
N.  White. Ed Warburton.   Lucas Dillon.                    Jeoffrey Fenton.

Calender of State Papers, relating to Ireland, Edited by H.J. Hamilton, London Record Office. Carlow, April 12th 1548.           
Anthony Colcloght and Bryan Jonys to the Lord Deputy Bellingham         
“Having delivered his letters to Cahir Mc Arte Kavanagh, who refused to restore the prey, and denied that the thief was his man.  He said he would want no man to be hanged for stealing only, sticking to the Brehon Law of restitution. They have got back the horse which was taken in Moryt Oges prey. Sir Richard Butler did not come according to his promise to answer on his part, his examples are evil to all men, as taking of preys, bordrages, wounding of men by the night, and taking gentlewomen prisoners”   

Carlow, May 27th 1548.     
Anthony Colclocht to the same.       “ Stating that the bearer Morgett Oge was coming to submit himself, who complained of being ill used, by Watkin Apowell,”

Carlow, September 5th 1548.        
Anthony Colcloght to the same.      “ Murtough (Murrough) Bacagh, has promised that he and and Cahir Mc Art Kavanagh would  submit”.                                                 

September 5th 1548.         
Lord Deputy Bellingham, to Anthony Colcloght.    
“Does not see Bryan Jonys hand to his letter of September 5th  warns him to be cautious how he receives persons on promise of submission,”

Carlow, January 6th 1549.    
Anthony Colcloght to the Lord Deputy Bellingham.    “Has Apprehended Edmond Reeve a Wall, and sent him to the gaol of Ballyadanis.”

Carlow, January 27th 1549.      
Anthony Colclough to Cahir Mc Arte Kavanagh.            
“ To keep his appointment of meeting him on Thursday Sevennight Is appointed to reside at Leighlin Bridge”.

Leighlin Bridge, February 1st 1549.      
Anthony Colcloght, to the Lord Deputy Bellingham         
“Has arrived at Leighlin, where he has begun to work a very good quarry of slate, which will be useful for Carlow as well as Leighlin. Desires 6 pickaxes, 20 shovels, some ordnance, powder and money. The Country will be glad to shew the utmost of their power in these works”.

Calendar of State Papers, (Carew).
January, 1549      
Bellingham Secretary to Anthony Colclough.   
“ To send away Mr. Rogers horse, if he be recovered of his disease, to prepare the house, (of Leighlin Bridge) as much as in him lieth, for “his Lordship knoweth of none other place to resort unto this winter”.

Calendar of State Papers, London Records Office.
Leighlin Bridge  February 13th, 1549.        
Anthony Colcloght to the Lord Deputy Bellingham.      
The bearer William O Broyn offers to inhabit the Grove and would do more, but for fear of the Countess of Ormonde. “ Sir, I have sent you your horse, for heyre I can not gett no mete for hym, for I am glad to lede my hay from Karlaght (Carlow) to serve which comings here upon Monday next to care teymer (Timber)” “Sir you shall have the fairest Cabull here that shall be in within all Ireland, and I trust a prattye hansum Lowgive for your selft”,  Prays him to write to Shane Barry Sergeant to cause the Country to keep better than they do.

Kilkenny, April 26th 1549.
The Sovereign of Kilkenny to the Lord Deputy, 
“Had received his letters by Anthony Colcloght and had in compliance with them, warned all the Priests of that Country to appear personally before him and the Council wherever the same shall be on the following Sunday.”

June 12th 1549.     
Anthony Colcloght to the Lord Deputy.     
“ In favour of the bearer, Shane Ballowe Mc William who requests a pardon for himself and his two sons, He has promised to be a good neighbour both to Carlow and this House, knows no theyfffes that be come in Idrone, but Idrought is full”.  

Calendar of Patent and Close Rolls. Dublin. 4th Edward VI.
February 17th 1550.
Pardon of Anthony Colcloughe of Leighlin Bridge, a.v.b.r. &, with the advowson of the Vicarage, Kylteyrke, a.v.b.r. £12 with the advowson or the Vicarage. Kylemore, a.v.b.r. 13-10-0 with the advowson of the Vicarage, Naas, a v b r. £5-6-8. a v b r, 40/- Ballygarvan, Clomyn, a v b r, 15/4. Tinterne a b v r. £4-13-4, and Whitechurch in Fassaghbente, a b v r, 20/-  with the annual pension of 6/8 payable out of the Vicarage of Kyllaghy, All the said lands lie and are situate in this County.

27th August,  18th Elizabeth, this monastery with appurtenances, in the towns and vicinities  Tynterne, le Nashe, Donnughmeine, Rathnegernegh, Bowle, Scarte, Donedowne, alias Gronduffe, Tobernasan, Ballygarvey, Cunistown, Ballytersin, and Clonin,  all the lands etc., in the town and vicinity of St.Brandon, Grange of Kylmore, Ballybought, and Castletown in this County, and all the Tythes, and reversion of the premises, were granted for ever in Capite to Anthony Colclough, at the annual rent of £26-4-0 Irish money.

On the death of that Distinguished man.
Sir Anthony Colclough Knight.
To be of Ancient race, and of a long line of Ancestors, to spring from a family adorned by many honors, Such Goods are enjoyed only by fickle Fortune’s aid. But to possess the time affection of ones fellow countrymen, with the assent of the public; to be really virtuous, and to be rewarded by these real honors, to have so firm a mind as never to be daunted by danger, these we may call our own, and not the possessions of our Ancestors. In him Nature and Fortune contended which should confer the most. And here, Traveller, you have all in this one tomb.

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A place name with slight convolution and an unashamed advertisement visit the Colclough Walled Garden
Colclough Walled Garden

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Convolution again, but Genome wise there are  few more people I'm matching with via DNA, with very interesting paper trails, one back via the Piggott family as far as Martha Colclough, Sir Anthony's granddaughter, all very exciting, if you've had DNA done get in touch, I would say though don't publish personal info leave a message and we can have email contact.

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Ádh mór ort
Tóg go bog é
John

A Grandee. Part 1

A Colclough Grandee. Part 1.

Slight deviation from names here, but it serves a purpose, whereas a grandee might be defined as a person of high status or eminence (rather than the classic Spanish or Portuguese nobleman). This will give me an excuse to quote from a book in my ‘library’. Evenings In the Duffrey (1875) Patrick Kennedy.

A background to this would be the days when an evening’s entertainment was the recounting of tales by the fireside.

                “When we were at leisure in the evening, some allusion was made to the subjects of the previous evening, but Jane and the youngsters clamoured against the introduction of any more old chronicles of sufferings and dismalities. Mr Lucas relieved their fears by saying that he would give them the substance of what took place at Duffrey Hall a short time after Denis’s imprisonment, but there should be nothing dismal about it. The gentleman who occupied the old seat at the time was Adam Colclough, brother of the Vesey whose disagreeable duty it had been to take Dennis into custody.

                The story teller went on… “The most ancient seat of the family is Tintern Abbey where our member Caesar Colclough now lives. It was founded about seven hundred years ago, and called after Tintern in Wales. A knight built it in consequence of a vow he made when in danger of his life at sea. The Colclough’s got possession in Elizabeth’s time, but they remained Catholics till within the memory of some old people I have talked with. The change of religion was made to prevent the estate passing out of the family. The first Protestant of the name often served Mass when a boy…” (Kennedy, 1875, p278.)

Despite the change in religion the locals spoke in admiration of their ‘masters’. The fireside story teller saying “ I do not remember to have ever heard of a tyrannical thing done by the family, and I have heard of numbers of kind and generous ones” (Kennedy, 1875, p 278.)

                The book provides and whimsical but useful description of the area of the Duffrey, “I would not desire a pleasanter occupation on a fine morning than a walk through KIlaughrim and Moynart wood, past Duffrey Hall, and up the gap of Scollagh, with glimpses of Black Stairs on the left and Mount Leinster on the right, marking the variety formed by the grey rocks and purple heath above, and the green patches lying like islands among them, and thecultivtated fields stretching with their stone fences, till they meet the clumps of big trees about Wood Brook, and the noisy Urrin as it tears down the pass that’s cut for it.” (Kennedy, 1875, P279.)

                Adam Colclough from the book is written as “The master of the house was taking his ease in a rustic chair in his garden; his three cornered hat hung on the back of this seat, and the curls of his wig were falling on his shoulders. The features were expressive of good nature, with a dash of testiness”.  The conversation took in hurling, hunting and farming. (Kennedy, 1875, P279.)

                Adam as the local landlord was asked to make judgements in disputes, people would come and petition him, he was generally spoken of as fair and just.  One of his tenants came to complain about a local squire and neighbour a certain Jones of Achasallach, the complainant was of a bardic nature hence;

A new song in honour of Adam Colclough

Good neighbours, and the nine muses, I pray you pay attention,

While I sing of the scare-crow that keeps us in subjection,

Though he dresses fine and grand, the real blood of the county,

Look on him with contempt for they’re all gentlemen of honesty.

Can he compare his bogs and heaths to the woods of Moghurry’

Where the bugles were a soundin’ and the huntsman a runnin’,

He thinks himself a lord, when he kills a black nosed sheep,

While three ox-beefs are slaughtered in Moghurry every week.

No, but he’ll go to Dublin to finish the old law-shuit,

He’ll put into his budget his ends and his awls:

He’ll lay them on his back, and carry ‘em very sassty,

He’ll step into his bulk, an’ he’ll folly his ould callin’.

Now this Jones of Achasallach is a monkey faced rascal;

He’s swarthy in the face, and admi’rable yella;

Not so by Adam Colclough, he’s both white and red;

He’s handsome when he’s dressed, and much handsomer in bed.

And Miss Kitty and Miss Mary, they’re both fair and tall,

They’re as courteous in behaviour as a fleet o’ man o’ war.

When they walk in crimson mantles under the old trees,

T’s Venus and Diana you fancy that you sees.

If you go to Achasallach, and stay but half a day,

You’ll surely have a belly-ache before you come away;

If you go to Moghurry in the beginning of the week,

You’ll get beer ale and brandy till Saturday night.

Now may our Duffrey heroes, and the Yellow Bellies all,

For ever best the Wicklow boys at hurling and football;

May Jones of Achasallach be banished over say,

And Colclough reign at Duffrey Hall for ever and a day.

This caused the gathered much amusement, Mr Colclough “whose sides were aching, cried out, ‘that will do, Peter; I really feel unworthy of praise, wrapped up, moreover, in such sublime poetry. No matter I will speak to Mr Jones, and I venture to promise that you will see your turf safely stacked in your barn…’ (Kennedy, 1875, Pp 285-287.)

Reference:

Kennedy, P., 1875. Evenings in the Duffrey (1875). 1st ed. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill

There are more anecdotes from Mr Kennedy’s  book, so we’ll call this part 1.

A place name in line with other posts, and a name I like, Graig na Manach, the monk's village in the Bearla (English).

Graiguenamanagh

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Graiguenamanagh Gráig na Manach
Town
View of Graiguenamanagh and the church from the River Barrow
Graiguenamanagh Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°32′00″N 6°57′00″W / 52.533333°N 6.95°W / 52.533333; -6.95Coordinates: 52°32′00″N 6°57′00″W / 52.533333°N 6.95°W / 52.533333; -6.95
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Kilkenny
Elevation	32 m (105 ft)
Population (2006)
• Urban	1,545
• Rural	932
Irish Grid Reference	S705440

Graiguenamanagh or Graignamanagh (Irish: Gráig na Manach, meaning "village of the monks") is a town in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located on the R705 regional road by the border with County Carlow on the River Barrow at the foot of Brandon Hill. It is home to Duiske Abbey,^[1] the largest and perhaps the finest of the thirty-four medieval Cistercian abbeys in Ireland.

History

The River Barrow, historically a significant highway, was developed as a commercial navigation in the mid seventeen hundreds and Graiguenamanagh served as the main base for commercial barges operating on the river until barge traffic ceased in 1959. The barges that at one time lined the quaysides are now replaced by some one hundred pleasure craft.
Near to the town are the ruined remains of the early Christian church of Ullard, founded by Saint Fiachra in the seventh century. St Fiachra subsequently moved to France, where he is known as St Fiacre, and founded the celebrated monastery at Meaux. He is the patron saint of gardeners and taxi drivers; French cabs are often known as fiacres in his honour. Some few miles downstream from Graiguenamanagh the ruins of the ancient monastic establishment at St. Mullins are situated in an area of great beauty and historic interest.

Graiguenamanagh.

Year	Pop.	±%
1821	1,546	—
1831	2,130	+37.8%
1841	2,248	+5.5%
1851	1,710	−23.9%
1861	1,320	−22.8%
1871	1,272	−3.6%
1881	1,172	−7.9%
1891	973	−17.0%
1901	852	−12.4%
1911	844	−0.9%
1926	799	−5.3%
1936	845	+5.8%
1946	1,064	+25.9%
1951	1,076	+1.1%
1956	1,366	+27.0%
1961	1,244	−8.9%
1966	1,177	−5.4%
1971	1,303	+10.7%
1981	1,532	+17.6%
1986	1,485	−3.1%
1991	1,395	−6.1%
1996	1,374	−1.5%
2002	1,435	+4.4%
2006	1,376	−4.1%
2011	1,543	+12.1%
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Recreation

Walking, cycling and watersports are among the more popular pursuits of Graiguenamanagh area and with the South Leinster Way meandering through the lovely Barrow Valley and traversing nearby Brandon Hill, scope is provided for a gentle stroll or a vigorous, day-long hike. The Barrow's aquatic facilities include fishing, swimming, kayaking and canoeing. Graigue, as the town is popularly known, is home to a rowing club, a canoe club, an athletics club, the G.A.A(Hurling and Gaelic football) and a soccer club, Highview Athletic.
In the centre of the town, its handsome modern library features a comprehensive Local History Section. It provides an Internet Service to the public and, in addition to its other functions, hosts periodic art exhibitions. The very active Graiguenamanagh Historical Society also sponsor a series of talks and lectures at this venue during the winter season. Adjacent to the library is The Abbey Centre, the home of a Christian Art Gallery and small museum. Here also for the genealogically inclined may be perused the Graiguenamanagh Parish Birth and Marriage Registers.

Duiske Abbey[edit]

View of the 13th-century nave in the early English style which was restored in 1974.^[4]

The Duiske Abbey, which takes its name from the little river Duiske (Blackwater) which joins the Barrow here, was founded by William Marshall in 1204 and was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1536. Significant remains of the monastery exist to the rear of the houses that line the east side of Lower Main Street. The abbey's large "Early English" gothic church, was restored in the 1970s and in its northern aisle a model shows the monastery as it was in the fourteenth century.

Goresbridge in Graiguenamanagh is associated with the Colclough name, many names appearing in my varied searches for family, a definite branch of the family here.