Record viewer numbers were reached by last Friday night’s RTE Nationwide programme which featured the looting and burning of Mitchelstown Castle in 1922. The castle was the biggest house burned in the War of Independence and Civil War, but very few people outside the locality know anything about it.
A unique decoration presented by one of the crowned heads of Europe to a Mitchelstown-born woman has gone on permanent exhibition in Saint George’s Arts and Heritage Centre.
Carlow/Kilkenny TD and Minister of State for Heritage & Electoral Reform, Malcom Noonan, paid a courtesy visit to St George's Arts & Heritage Centre in Mitchelstown last Friday.
Despite some fairly challenging weather conditions for the organisers and drivers, Motors for Marymount which took place from the Firgrove Hotel, Mitchelstown was a resounding success with over €5,000 raised for Marymount University Hospital and Hospice.
Cpl. Harold Reed died serving the U.S. military in Korea in 1950, but his body wasn't returned to Ottawa Hills and buried on his family's plot until 2014.