In 1690 King William's army encamped on the Green of Carrick 21st July 1690 while here the King issued a royal warrent for Commissioners of Quay. The original document was in the custody of the Right Hon. the Lord Newport Lord Chancellor (1749) It includes_"Queen at our Royal Camp near Carrick 23rd July 1690 in the second year of our reign" By his majesty's command Robert Southwell. William III being very warmly received by the people of Carrick his majesty was very pleased to grant the town immunity from local taxes in consequence of which no "country cess" was levied on Carrick until about 1850. During his stay the conqueror of the Boyne was lodged as a guest with the Mandeville family at the "Villa Mantilla de Verde."
In 1697. John Newport petitioned the Lords Justices for the grant of some houses in Carrick he was a native of Carrick and supplied the sick and wounded when the hospital was there, he also

The local roads are the Manorhamilton road, the Dowra road, the Carrick road, the Church road, the school road, or the spout road, the Barragh road, the Black road, the Coarse road, the old road, the Killinagar road, and the Drummonds road.The Manorhamilton road leads from Drumkeerin North to Mamorhamilton. The Dowra road leads from Drumkeerin East to Dowra. The Carrick road leads South to Carrick-on-Shannon. The Church road leads from Drumkeerin to the Church, and joins the Carrick road. The school road leads to Drumkeerin Scool from Drumkeerin. The Barragh road leads from the Carrick road to the mountain. The black road leads from the Manorhamilton road to Co Sligo. The Coarse leads from the Manorhamilton road to the Dowra road. The old road leads from Kilmore school to the Coarse road. The Killinagar road leads from the old road to the mountain. The Drummonds road leads from the Carrick road to Lough Allen. They were made before the Famine.

Road at about Ardcarne, and there it turned away fom the railway line and went in a zig-zag manner to Carrick. The old road came up beside the present Carrick railway station and turned in towards Carrick town. Instead of going over the bridge accross the Shannon it took a turn to the right and went off to Dublin.
The new road from Carrick-on-Shannon to Dublin was built entirely on the old road. The railway line from Carrick to Boyle was made in 1861 and was built for most of the way beside the old road. A man named Peter Daly of Ross St., Boyle who died recently often drove the Dublin - Sligo coaches along the old Dublin Road. From Carrick to Boyle the road is in comparative disuse.

Mrs. Susan Rynn, Aughrim, Michael Rynn who walks from Carrick-on-Shannon was his grandfather.)

Willie Winters native of Carrick-on-Shannon town won many medals for swimming. Some years ago he made a bicycle, which he propelled on the river Shannon for over half a mile. Then he turned his bicycle on the water and cycled back again tot he starting point to the amazement of all the onlookers at the Carrick regatta, about four years ago. Willie Winters is little over twenty years, and son of Mr. Winters, a German, who set up a motor garage in Carrick-on-Shannon

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to pay and were given notice for three years. John O'Brien, late of Carrick St,(father of Thomas O'Brien Carrick St, who was supposed to collect the rents got notices to serve on the tenants, i.e., that they could purchase their holdings in a certain number of years. John O'Brien never served the notices, and the land was put up for sale. The tenants held protest meetings every night and John O'Brien was one of the chief organisers of the meetings.
In the meantime Mrs. O'Brien, wife of John O'Brien put a bid of £200 on the whole property which comprised practically all Carrick St., Beeverstown, the land of Vaughan's Carrick St., property of Stephen O'Connor, Carrick St., and that of Kavanagh's

Carrick or distribution among the poor of his town. At his death in 1782 he bequeathed a sum of £2000 for the building and support of an alms house of Carrick. It would appear that he made one Joseph Tucker his executor, for it was through this gentleman the trustees appointed were made aware of the bequest. By Wadding's will the Bishop of Waterford, the Parish Priest of Carrick for the time being and three respectable laymen of the town were appointed to administer the charity. The number of inmates was not specified. The house was built in 1783 and further endowed by James Sausse Esq. a local merchant with £30 per annum for the support of 5 persons which he made a rent charge on his property in Carrick and a few years later the charity had another bequest made to it of two and a half acres of land at Biel by a Miss ONeill.

in Carrick on Suir in County Tipperary.

main-road the Carrick-road the Iramore-road and the Portlaw road. The main-road leads from Cork City to Waterford City. This road is tarred because there is a large amount of traffic on it every day. The Carrick road which leads from Waterford to Carrick is also tarred. The Tramore road leads from Tramore to the Cork road and the Portlaw road leads from Portlaw to Carroll's Cross.

had less work to do.About eighty years ago two shoe-makers named Donnelly and Conway worked in Cook Lane, Carrick-on-Suir and did a good trade up to some years ago. Some Conways work at this trade still in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary. Long ago Gutta Percha shoes were worn by the old people. If you went too near the fire the sole would part from the upper as it was held on by stuff that would not stand the heat. Those shoes were not made in Ireland but imported from England. Timber soled shoes called clogs were worn in Ireland about twenty years ago. The sole was made of "fearnóg" a tree which grows on the bank of a river. A man worked in Carrick at this trade of making soles and shipping the to England. A shoe called a brogue was worn about seventy years ago and it was strong hand-made shoe. These are worn now too, by work-men. There was a tannery in Carrick-on-Suir where teh old Police Barracks was once. It was owned by a family named Power, of Mountrichard, Carrick-on-Suir and on that account this family got the name "Power Tanner". There is a tannery in Portlaw now and another in Carrick-on-Suir.The old people believed there existed

In the Church field at Carrick the

There was a great warrior by the name of King Martin, who lived in a Castle named Carrick Castle, in the townland Carrick, Ballinalack. There was a great battle fought at this Castle long ago, and this King Martin was killed there. He was about 7 feet in height, and he was very strong. When he was killed he was buried in the grounds of Carrick and there was a big rock put over his grave.

The "Horse Bog", The "Long Bog" The "Long Field" & "Heather Hill" over the Carrick Road.

Lord Carrick lived in the townsland of Wollengrange. He had a splendid mansion there, but there is no trace of it there at present. Two huge piers mark the entrance to his mansion and two years ago May McCalmont offered £100 for them to Mr Timothy Kelly.
Lord Carrick had an English visitor and one day as they were walking in the locality they saw an old man driving along with a horse and common cart. Lord Carrick said to his friend "would he like to see what they did with an Irish Papist." He ordered the man to stop, and then Lord Carrick tied the reins round his neck and hanged him from the shafts of the car.It is said locally that several met a similar fate from the same Lord Carrick

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Many people believe that Carrick earned this soubriquet because of a strong fight against Cromwell's army in 1650. This belief is in fact false.
Carrick earned this name in 1798. During this year a rebellion broke out in Ireland. It was led by such men as Wolfetone, L Ed. Fitz and The Brothers Sheares. They belonged to a societ known as the United Irishmen who were fairly numerous in Carrick but nevertheless Carrick took no part in the fight.
The people of the town were tempted. A large force of soldiers were stationed in the town. A man named indkin Fitz

About the year 1780, there lived in Firgrove on one of the roads from Thomastown to New Ross, a gentleman, Councillor Robins, a near relation of Lord Justice Bushe. He was somewhat "prime" as it is called in Kilkenny Co and took into his service as butler, Freney the Robber.
A frequent visitor in Firgrove was Lord Carrick who lived at Mount Juliet 7 miles away, where Major Mc Calmont now lives. This gentleman often boasted of his bravery in encounters with highwaymen. Councillor Robins resolved to test his courage. So one evening about 9 P.M. where Lord Carrick was starting for home from Robin's house on horseback he was purposely delayed by the Councillor while the tip was given to Freney to rob him. Freney immediately went to the stables, took out the swiftest horse, and gallopped through the fields for a quarter of a mile, went out on the road and met Lord Carrick "Your money or your life" said Freney. Lord Carrick handed out a gold watch and chain, and 25 sovs. Freney went back as quick as possible stabled his horse, and went at once to the parlour where the Councillor was waiting.
Some ten minutes after a horseman was heard approaching, and a knock was given at the hall door. It was Lord Carrick crestfallen. He said that he was stopped by two robbers

to the wick. Candles of various sizes and thickness were made in this manner.
Other industries that existed in Carrick-on-Suir until the late eighties and nineties were:-Tanneries, and bacon-curing yards mostly situated along the Banks of the Suir - the ruins of many stores are still there . A very extensive trade between Waterford, Carrick and Clonmel. The river is tidal to about a mile beyond Carrick and the boats plied to and fro meither by the method of "Poling" or by the steam-tug. Between Carrick and Clonmel

of fighting dogs Daniel occupied a foremost place in Carrick during many years. There were dozens of such men in Carrick at this time. Dog fighting as a sport, game or pastime had been practised in Carrick from time immemorial. The town was noted for its fighting.
Paddy Daniel was one of the last of the old school of dog and cock fighters in Carrick. He was born in 1805. He was a master boot, or brogue maker, as they were called in his day and always had a number of tradesman working for him.
Paddy was a good judge of men as well as of dogs and cocks and was never absent whenever anything like a match at weight-throwing was taking place between local celebrities. There were in his time several of these who managed to meet in friendly rivalry, at such places as the "Fair of Glen" or the "Barony Meeting" in Bessborough Demesne, near Piltown, Co. Kilkenny. This meeting was a kind of

visitor at Carrick and used to put up at the Bessborough Arms Hotel.
One one occasion, having a big wager with Lord Clonmel on the result of a "main" arranged to be fought at Curraghmore, he found it hard to procure in time the required number of good cocks. Knowing that in Carrick was a well known breed of "black reds", which had won matches all ove the country, he sent for a man named Paddy Daniel (not the "herb man") with whom he was well acquainted and explained the situation to him.
Daniel volunteered to find and train the necessary number of "black reds" and be on the ground with the birds and their handlers on the day appointed. Daniel duly kept his promise, and, accompanied by some Carrick fanciers, turned up at Curraghmore properly equipped for the fray, and after a desprate exhibition of carnage the Carrick "black reds" prevailed over the Clonmel "Piles", and won a big wager for Lord