Kilkenny Road

Across the road from Burrin Place is Barrowville, now occupied by Mrs. Governey. It was in years gone by the residence of Dr. Rawson, one of Carlow's oldest doctors. He was Surgeon of Carlow Jail and also Surgeon-Colonel of the Carlow Militia. On the opposite side of Kilkenny Road is the Manse, and Roseville. This latter house was occupied by the Misses Sponge, and was the Judges' lodgings for the Assize Judges in the old days, and from there they used be escorted to the Courthouse by a squadron of cavalry and mounted policemen.

Next to Roseville is the Rectory, the residence of the Venerable Archdeacon Ridgeway. This residence was built in 1885 for Dean King, the then Rector of Carlow, and was later occupied by the late Dean Finlay, whom many Carlow people still remember with affection.

Opposite the rectory is Otterholt the residence of Mr. Hadden. this was the home of Dr. Charles McDowell, who gave free treatment for one hour each day to people who could not afford to pay a fee. Dr. McDowell's father was the Governor of Carlow Gaol. Just beyond the Workhouse buildings are two houses known as "The Green Dragon."

This was an inn in the coaching days, but with the advent of the railway it fell into disuse, and was converted into two private houses.

An old Carlow resident, not long dead, told me he remembered the inn being used as a public house about sixty years ago. Before I close I would like to refer to the former occupant of another house in that district – Shamrock Lodge here lived the late Robert Malcomson, who wrote some books about old Carlow, including "A Vindication of the late Sir Edward Crosbie" of Viewmount House, who was hanged in Carlow in 1798, and also "Members of Parliament for the Borough and County of Carlow."

Kennedy Road West side from the north end:

Barrowville is a gable-ended,  four-bay house with rendered walls and a later facade which has raised parallel coigns, a string-course over the ground floor,  a cornice and parapet.  The windows have plaster architraves and are wider on the ground floor than on the first floor. The large round-headed doorcase has switch-track tracery in the fanlight. There is a single dormer window on the front and another on the rare.  They both have chamfered corners which make them half-octagon in plan.  The limestone gate-piers are channelled.

Grovesnor Place is an interesting pair of late nineteenth century,  semi-detached houses,  designed to form a single visual unit. Each house is of three bays one of which is advanced by approximately six feet. Thus the whole composition is of six bays with a two-bay breakfront. The breakfront has three storeys, the remainder four storeys.  Over the porches are mezzanine floors which are visible from the front and make the houses look rather unusual.   The ground floor of the advanced centre has segmental-headed windows.  The houses are built of yellow brick with courses of red and blue brick over the ground-floor windows and across the top floor. The roof is hipped and there is a complex eaves-cornice which is cut by the third-floor windows. The porches have brick cornices and balustrades.  The gate-piers are of rusticated granite.

East side from the south and: The former Rectory was built in 1885 and is a yellow-brick house with a gable end facing the road. The facade facing the garden  is of four bays and two storeys with dormer windows cutting the eaves, barge-boards and red tiles under the gables. There is a small porch on the north side.  The boundary fence to the garden on the north side of the house is a 'Carlow fence' of long granite rails and posts.

Roseville and Calaroga  are a pair of simple,  early nineteenth-century,  two-bay,  two-storey houses with good segmental-headed door cases with fanlights.  The first house has sidelights beside the door case.

Garryowen is an attractive, small, three-bay,  two-storey, U-plan house,  circa 1850.  It has gables on the advanced bays,  rendered walls with raised coigns, wide eaves and paired segmental-headed windows with plain dressings. The doorcase is in the narrow centre section and has a flat, segmental-headed light over the lintel. Over the doorcase,  on the first floor, is a small granite shield