Moyle Estate sold.

Nationalist 12th March 1921.

Big Moyle Estate.

We are pleased to hear during the week-end that the Rathoe, County Carlow, Land Committee had purchased from Lord Rathdonnell, the Fee Simple of Moyle Estate, obtaining 412 acres (statute), for the sum of £16,000. This estate adjoins Kellistown, making a huge tract of land which will be divided amongst the evicted tenants, uneconomic holders and landless men. It inspires one with national energy to picture that extent of untenanted land studded with homesteads. From a study of the history of the district, its people will imbibe deep-seated religious beliefs and high-souled patriotism in the exercise of which they will be a strong factor in retaining our position in the world as the noblest and most respected of nations. Our best congratulations should be extended to the Rathoe Committee for the just peaceful and unostentatious manner in which they acquired the lands.

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Captain Moses Nowlan or O'Nowlan,

Nationalist 1921.

Tatler.

The reference in "By the Way" column of "The Freeman" to Colonel Nolan and the Charge of the Light Brigade reminds a correspondent that of the same family of Kilkenny and Carlow soldiers was Captain Moses Nowlan , or O'Nowlan, who was a recruiting officer in Ireland for the armies of the King of Spain.

He was caught and tried in the Court of the King's Bench in June 1726, for enlisting Wild Geese, and it was sworn that he had "shipped off 200 men during those two months past for the said service, and had 100 more to go off that night" Found guilty, he was hanged at the Irish Tyburn, near Stephen's Green in Dublin, where so many illustrious men, including Archbishop O'Hurley, of Cashel, suffered for Faith and Fatherland.

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Mary O' Toole

Nationalist 1921.

Miss Mary O'Toole, has been nominated by President Harding Judge of the Washington Municipal Court, and is the first lady lawyer to receive such a distinction. Miss O'Toole, who is a native of Hacketstown, left for America when she was only sixteen years of age, after receiving an ordinary primary school education.

Miss O'Toole is a sister of Nicholas and J.J. O'Toole, N.T. Nicholas is a prominent member of Carlow County Council. About six months ago he was arrested in the round-up by police and military at Hacketstown and conveyed to the Rath Internment Camp at the Curragh. Mary is the first woman judge in the District Municipal Court, and only woman director of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and the first woman director of the Citizens Savings Bank, besides being founder and first President of the Women's City Club in Washington, numbering about 2.000 members.

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The above is a true and accurate transcript of the original document.

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Transcribed by M. Purcell c2010.

Old newspapers in the PPP.