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| © Eugene Brennan and map courtesy Tailte Éireann |
A fragment of brick from under my front lawn. I can't think of any other way it got there, other than rubble from the demolished stables being bulldozed to act as infill during construction of the Nicholastown housing estate, which opened to residents in 1939. I found it at a depth of over 3 feet when digging a soakaway in 2020. Bricks were sometimes used in flat arches above windows and for the window jambs of rough-stone buildings.
The Carlow Stables, which was located at what's now the corner of the entrance to the Nicholastown housing estate, acted as a staging station. Fresh horses from the stables were used to replace exhausted ones, on the long-distance Bianconi coach route that ran from Dublin to Cork, via Clonmel. In later years, the building was used as a location for staging plays and dances. However, no photos of it seem to exist.
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| The Carlow Stables were located at what's now the corner of the entrance to the Nicholastown housing estate. Image courtesy Tailte Éireann. |
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