Carlow County - Ireland Genealogical Projects (IGP TM)


'98 AND CARLOW
A Look At The Historians

By Padraig O'Snodaigh


By kind permission of Michael Purcell c.2009

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The Volunteer units of the county were as follows30

Unit

Dates Noted

Officers Listed

Ballintemple Foresters

(Ballintemple Forresters, Balin Temple Forresters)

1779, 1781, 1784

 

Captain Stewart Captain W P Butler

 

Borris Volunteers

(Burros Volunteers, Borris Infantry. Borris Rangers)

1779, 1781, 1784

 

Colonel T Kavanagh

 

(There may have been more than one unit in Borris)

Carlow Association

1779-1781, 1733, 1784

Coln Ron Win Burton,
Lt Major Henry Eustice,
Lt and Adj T Proctor,
Lt Sam Carpenter,
Lt W Bernard, Philip Bernard,
Ellis C Simons, J Corbet
Pope, Henry Rudkin,
Philip Watters

(Carlow) Battalion)

 

 

(referred to by Farrell and obviously one of the organic units of the Carlow Association)

Carlow (County) Legion

(Carlow Legion, County of Carlow Legion, County Carlow Legion Horse and Foot)

1779, 1780, 1783, 1784

Coln J Rochfort, Major Henry Bunbury, Adj Trevor Hill Mercer

 

 

 

(Carlow) Grenadier Company

 

 

(Carlow) Light Infantry

 

 

(Both referred to by Farrell and obviously organic units of the Carlow Association).

Carlow Volunteers

1779, 1783

Coln Paul Butler, Coln Burton

(this seems to be another name for the Carlow Association)

Dunleckny and Kiledmond Volunteers

1781

Coln B Bagenal

Dunleckney, Kiledmond and Mount Leinster Volunteers

1782

Coln Beauchamp Bagenal

Dunleckney and Mount Leinster Volunteers

1781

 

Grange & Dunkecky

1784

Coln Bagnell

(All four references may well be to the one unit under different names)

Infantry of Co Carlow Legion

1782

Major Bunbury

(An organic unit of the Carlow Legion)

Leighlin Volunteers (LeighIin)

1780, 1781

Coln Rochford

Leighlin and Leighlinbridge Volunteers

1779, 1780

Coln J Rochford
Ajd W O Hunter

Mount Neal Horse

1781

 

Palatine Volunteers (Palatinetown Infantry, Palatinetown Volunteers)

1780, 1781

Capt Butler
Capt H Bunbury

Tullow Carabiniers

1783

 

Tullow Infantry

1781

 
Tullow Rangers
(Tullow Horse)

1778, 1781, 1782, 1784

Capt T Whelan
Rev Robert Robinson

Tullow Volunteers

1781

Capt Robert Eustace

(This may be another name for the Tullow Infantry)


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