All Saints Church Carnew Co. Wicklow

            The early decades of  the 19th century brought a welter of building and rebuilding activity on the part of Coollattin Estate. Plans to develop an estate town in Coollattin were abandoned and the available monies diverted to rebuilding the towns of Carnew and Tinahely In addition to the rebuilding of Main Street, twelve impressive houses were built in Pavey’s Garden (now School Height) and named Brunswick Row A row of fiteen more humble dwellings was built on Coollattin Road. Tenants undertaking private building development were fifty per cent funded by the estate.

A major undertaking was the reconstruction of Carnew castle which, apart from is use as a guardhouse, had lain derelict for one and a half centuries. It was re-roofed, its windows widened and generally togged out as a Georgian pile for the Revd. Ponsonby who arrived as rector in 1813. Ponsonby did not last long in the castle. He was a brother in law of Earl Fitzwilliam, was upwardly mobile, had connections in the right places, and was soon to become Bishop of Derry

Rebuilding the town was one thing. Healing the scars on the minds and in the hearts of its inhabitants was to prove more difficult. Sectarian strife was never far below the surface. In 1850 Carnew’s constable Laurence Farrell requested police reinforcements when he was informed that ‘a large number of country people from the county of Wexford will assemble on this evening at Carnew for the purpose of tearing down any emblems, flags or poles that may be exhibited or hoisted in the town of Carnew on this 12th day of July 1850’. Conflict was avoided when, at the last minute, the contentious flags were peacefully removed after the intervention of the Coollattin agent, Bob Challoner. During the latter part of the century there were prosecutions for the removal of a Union Jack from the churchyard on July 12th. In court discretion prevailed over valour and the offenders were generally released with a warning regarding their future behaviour.

Earl Fitzwilliam and his agent Bob Challoner turned to the provision of interdenominational education as a means for healing old wounds. An impressive two storey school (now Carnew Enterprise Centre) was built n 1829. The nature of the education and the role of the Catholic clergy in its provision proved a bridge too far for the town’s rector, Rev. Henry Moore. He sought to have a school built for his own parishioners. There ensued a protracted struggle between two determined protagonists. In the end, following a chancery court ruling Moore got his way and was allowed to build a school on the only site available to him, the corner of the churchyard. Fitzwilliam reaction was to evict the rector from the castle.

In addition to Upper Primary school Rev. Moore left two other monuments to his memory. In the 1840’s he built All Saints Church to replace the church built by the Nicksons in the 1720’s. The clock tower and the spire which had been added to the old church in the early 19th century were left standing. He also built the twelve foot high castle wall, thus shrouding from the public gaze the old grey dense castle walls which re-echo so many tragic chapters in the history of the town of Carnew. By Kevin Lee

Taken in: Ireland / Wicklow / Carnew (show map)

Taken on: January 8, 2010

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