Piltown Bridge
Piltown Bridge photographed Summer 2018
Piltown Bridge, County Kilkenny
Kilkenny County Library
Bridges of Kilkenny Project
Kilkenny County Library
Summer 2017
Declan Macauley
Kilkenny County Library: copyright reserved
Bridges of Kilkenny Project
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County Kilkenny
Bessborough House, Piltown, County Kilkenny
Decade of Centenaries, Kilkenny , image
Bessborough House, now Kildaton College was the victim of an arson attack on March 1st 1923. The Bessborough Estate had being used by anti-Treaty forces prior to this. It was set on fire in an unauthorised action by Free State forces on March 1st. It was later rebuilt in 1929, it was sold by the Earl of Bessborough in 1940 and became a Seminary, in 1971 it again changed hands, bought by the Department of Agriculture and became Kildalton College.
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
Kilkenny County Council Library Service
1923, photographed September 2020
Declan Macauley
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Photographs: Dylan Vaughan
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Kilkenny County