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The Knockbeg Centenary Book
by An t-Athair Peadar MacSuibhne, 1948
[Father Peter Swayne]
The Knockbeg Centenary Book was published to be a memorial to the history of St. Mary's College, Knockbeg, County Carlow.
Carlow College was founded in 1782 for the education of Catholic youth. It opened in October, 1793, with two departments, lay and ecclesiastical. St. Mary's, Knockbeg, was founded in June 1847, as a prepatory school for Carlow College. In September, 1892, the Lay College, Carlow was transferred to Knockbeg. In October, 1899, St. Mary's Knockbeg, was constituted the diocesan minor seminary. In October, 1913, Knockbeg, hitherto a constituant part of Carlow College, became a distinct unit for administration, remaining, however, under the same body of trustees.
The earliest records of the College are four account books named Books No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4. Book No. 1 is a cash book showing a detailed record of expenditure form the opening day, 1st Oct 1793 to 15 Aug 1818. It gives summaries of the monies received from each student and payments made to each Professor and servant of the College during that period.
Books No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 are ledgers for students, professors and servants. The date of each student's entrance and, in most instances, his home address, or at least, his native county or diocese, is given. His status, whether boarder, day-scholar or extern, is indicated, and where the date of leaving is not stated, this can be deduced from the cash entries. Likewise the salaries paid to professors and servants are shown as well as the dates of their commencement and leaving. Book No. 2 dates from 1 Oct 1793 to 6 Oct 1803. Book No. 3 covers the period from 1 Oct 1803 to April 1812. Book No. 4 covers the period from Sep 1812 to 18 Apr 1818.
Records of St. Mary's, Knockbeg
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Muinebheag - The records of the established Church, Dunleckney parish, show that at a Vestry held 21 Feb 1803, it was resolved that in order to provide substitutes for the 22 men whom the parish of Dunleckney was bound to furnish to the militia of the County, the sum of L142 10s. 0d. was necessary to be levied. Of this L13 17s. 10d. was to raised off housekeepers in the town of Moneybeg, as follows:
Mce Nolan, Danl Magra, Patt Corcoran, Patt Tierney, Danl Tierney, Jerame Hanlon, John McDonald, Jas. Lalor, Ml. Kehoe, Wm. Byrne, Peter Conolly, Mc Doyle, Laurence Kinsella, Redmond Blanche, Laurence Nolan, Mc. Byrne, Pat Nolan, Mc. Joyce, Mce. Hoey, Jas. Walsh, Darby Lalor,
Micl. Cummins, Jos. Neal, Hugh Dooley, Micl. Connolly, Wm. Rooney, ___ Rice (?), Mr. Robert Browne, Mr. Robert Burrows, Mr. Wm. Singleton, Mc. Nolan - Malster, Robert Cahill, Mc. Connolly, Thos. Boyle, Pat Foley, ___ Sutton, Jas. Bull, Owen Lyons, Patt Murphy.
Carlow Student Roll
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Cummins, Bartholomew, Queen's County
10 Mar 1807 - 1 July 1812. Day Scholar. C.f. B. Cummins, Extern 1810-11 and 1816-17. [Ordained 1812, on the same day as his future bishop Dr. Haly. Seems to have been C.C., Naas, 1812-14; Chaplain to the "hulk" in Dublin, 1814-20; C.C. Naas, June 1820-22. C.C. Ballyadams, autumn 1824.]
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Cummins, Mr. Mathew
3 Sept 1808 - 1 July 1810. Day Scholar. Extern. C.f. Mr. M. Cummins, Nov 1810 to 1 July 1811, and Mr. Cummins, Extern, Nov 1811 to 1 July 1812.
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Cummins, Mr. Thomas, Co. Carlow
25 Sept 1809 - 1 July 1817. 7 Sept 1809, by cash L5. Extern to 1 Sept 1810. [C.f. Fr. Thomas Cummins of Tullow parish, appointed C.C. Clonmore 1818. Tere was a Cummins family at Castlemore in Ballon parish, within a short distance of Tullow. Fr. Cummins died 18 Apr 1824, aged 33, and in buried in Clonegal, where Fr. Thomas Cummins, senior, P.P., Clonegal, probably a relative, is buried,]
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Cummins, Mr. Mathew
Nov 1810 - 1 July 1811. Extern. 3g. Day Scholar, 3 Sept 1808 - 1 July 1810.
Cummins, Mr. B
Nov 1810 - 1 July 1811. Extern. 3g. [C.f. Fr. Bartholomew Cummins fo Killeshin Parish; C.C., Naas, June 1820.]
Diocesan Clergy of 1820
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1818. Rev. Thomas Cummins of Tullow Parish; Curate, Clonmore
C.f. Thomas Cummins, Carlow student 1809-12, and Thomas Cummins, Co. Carlow, 1812-17. The Cummins family began in Kellistown and spread to Cloghna, then Ballybar, Clonmelsh, then Coolnokisha, Ballinacarrig, where Mr. Keenan now lives; Oldtown, where Mr. Tennant lives, and Busherstown. Walter of Ballybar was a brother of Fr. Gerald, who died young and who is buried with his mother, nee Cullen, in Glasnevin. Another brother was James of Windgate. Mrs. Pauline Kearney of Ballymoon, a sister, is buried in Tinryland. The late Mr. Walter Cummins of Aghade, a nephew of the Ballybar family, was born in Coolnakisha and is buried in Ballon. The late Mrs. Terence Cummins, Killane, was a kinsman of Cardinal Cullen. Fr. Thomas, C.C., Clonmore, was possibly from Castlemore in the parish of Ballon. Buried in Clonegal.
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1816. Rev. Mr. Cummins of near Tullow; P.P. Myshall
C.f. Cummins, Carlow student, 1811-12. Fr. Laurence Cummins, P.P., Myshall, 1816-38, may have been born at Ballybar, but more probably at Ullard, where there is a room called Fr. Cummins' room. Buried at the Sacred Heart Altar in Myshall.
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June 1820. Rev. Bartholomew Cummins of Killeshin; Curate, Naas
Carlow student 1807-12
Students Attending Knockbeg College
by Peadar Mac Suibhne
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Owen Lorcan Cummins. Pupil Cnoc Beag. Sept. 1891 - Dec. 1892. Son of Walter of Busherstown Ho., now Breens, and Anne Kehoe, Mount Neale Manr, daughter of Joe Kehoe and niece of Carrotty Kehoe b. at Baltinglass. Carrotty's sister M.A. Nolan. Owen is first cousin of Fr. John Kearney, P.P. who was himself a pupil of Cnoc Beag. Owen was in Cnoc Beag when Fr. L.... was there as monitor.
... Owen entered Conc Beag shortly before Dr. Burke left. It was Dr. Burke who interviewed him at Carlow, and he was brought out in a little side car with a grey or white pony owned by Fr. Paul and driven by the man who did messages to town every day. Owen ran away from Cnoc Beag. He remained there about 1 1/2 years.
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Cummins
Families of County Carlow, Ireland