Conway Mill Trust

During the Great Hunger roads were constructed called Roads of Hunger which led to bogs and rocky plateaus constructed not with the purpose of building infrastructure but to avoid interfering with private enterprise.

Pope Gregory XVI made a gift of St Valentine’s remains to a Carmelite priest Fr Spratt who was building a church in Dublin in 1825.  The remains were brought to the church and received by the Archbishop.  After Fr Spratt died devotion to the saint waned and the relics sent to a back room to gather dust where they remained until about forty years ago when the church was renovated and the saint was given his rightful place in a shrine in the church.

The word “boycott” originated in the 19^th Century with the Irish peasantry when they rented their lands from absentee landlords who paid an agent to supervise the estate.  One such agent was a wicked Captain Boycott.  The tenants, in order not to break the law by assaulting him, ostracized him and his family, and no one in the community would speak or trade with them, and they were treated as though they did not exist.  They were forced to leave Ireland but returned many years later and he admitted his wrongdoing.