www.Paulstown.com

Welcome to Paulstown, "A nice place to shop".

    Paulstown is located in the north of Co. Kilkenny close to the Carlow border. It's on the main Dublin-Waterford road / new dual carriageway at the junction where this road meets the road to Kilkenny City.  The population was 398 (CSO 1996) at the last census.
That's up a bit from 212 in 1837.  Paulstown is in the Thomastown electoral area.

Maps of Paulstown

Local electoral areas in Kilkenny
Regions including Paulstown in Thomastown electoral area
Paulstown on Mapquest
"Paulstown from outer space.."

 

Paulstown on Wikipedia

Accomodation in or near Paulstown

Killure Lodge

Orchard Grove B&B

Shamrock Cottage

Shankill Castle Apartments

Jigsaw of Scoil Bhride, Paulstown Primary school  http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/4D11AD10507

Other

The church of the Assumption and convent
 
Rapid Express bus timetable-From Kilkenny  ;  From Waterford / Dublin

Bus Eireann timetable (pdf)

Anti-motorway site -traffic statistics etc.

Dog Shelter www.carlowkilkennyds.ie

Purcells of Paulstown (shop)  https://www.facebook.com/purcellsofpaulstown

Shankill Castle

Opening times

Polyogonal gatehouse at entrance to Shankill Castle        http://archiseek.com/2013/gates-of-shankill-castle-paulstown-co-kilkenny/#.UWcxxVROMdU

Art from castle studio- http://www.elizabethcope.com 
 
Pic of Austin Cambridge car once belonging to Shankill castle ;
 
Shankill History - 2313 inhabitants in 1837!  

 

Church built in 1811. Service times.
 

Sports

Barrow Rangers Hurling club
 
Paulstown boxing club

Trivia

 
www.rootsweb.com

History

Paulstown was once called Whitehall and still is on some older maps. Some say the name comes from one of 3 brothers Paul, John & Thomas who decided to call those 3 towns in Kilkenny after themselves.  But according to this ancestry site  it has a different origin :  " Sir Richard Butler, Bart., of Poolstown, (now Paulstown) dying in 1886, Elizabeth, his widow, married Theobald Denn, Esq. (De Brett's Peerage.) ".
If you know the true one please let me know !  

From Google cache: ( original site http://www.genuki.org.uk/... no longer exists )

WHITEHALL -- (Paulstown)

"Whitehall", a village, partly in the parish of Shankill, but chiefly in that of Kilmocahill, barony of Gowran, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 4 miles (S.W.) from Leighlin-bridge, on the road to Kilkenny; containing 33 houses and 212 inhabitants.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]

Paulstown History and Genealogy  -  http://oldpaulstownstories.wordpress.com/

Paulstown pictures in Google

 

Paulstown castle description. Kilmacahill. Marble quarry & cornmill.
From www.rootsweb.com/... "William Flood, address Paulstown Castle, Kilkenny, owned 3,852 acres." !!!!  in 1876.
History of ownership of castle


View of Paulstown castle from the entrance. ( Haybarns editted out)


View of castle from side. (Haybarns editted out).




Old water pump in Paulstown village from the Castle Flood's :.




Plaque beside pump.



View of Mount Leinster,  part of the Blackstairs mountains, from Paulstown.



Mount Leinster from the west.



An old mill.

Could this be the  "Here is a corn-mill, worked  by a small stream, which falls into the Barrow"  described on http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/KIK/Kilmacahill/index.html  ?
 
 

A curious horse.

Misc

Local TDs:
www.johnmcguinness.com/...(FF)
...


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