Extract from 'The Carlow Gentry' page 170.
“And if Mrs. Olive Hall could win the affection of
royalty, she won it in even greater measure in her own locality
where her many acts of generosity to needy neighbours are still
remembered and recalled. In 1932, when campaigning in a general
election for Fine Gael, she called to the home of the Tobins in
Ballintrane. She found Mrs. Mary Tobin confined to bed with
disabling pains, while her husband Jack - 20 years her senior - was
no longer able to leave the house. Mrs. Hall enquired of Mrs. Tobin
how she could manage in such circumstances, and she was told that a
neighbour, Mrs. Rosie Cummins, called twice a week and did the
shopping. When Mrs. Hall left, she told her driver, Frank Bingham to
take her to Mrs. Cummins. She made immediate arrangements for daily
visits to the Tobins to have the household chores done, and from
then on, Rosie would be on the weekly payroll from Kellistown
Cottage. Every week for several years until Mrs. Tobin's death, her
pay cheque was delivered by gardener Michael Dowling, who lived
nearby.”
Source of Image: Carloviana Vol 2. No. 27 1978/79.
p.23
