We went to the appointment in the library, for sure we would be laughed out of the library. We were taken to the back area where all the archives are keep. The girl explained that a lot of the records pre 1912 were lost in a fire.
She produced some maps to see if we could find the site of our house. Each map we could pinpoint the area of our house until the 1876 map were there was no distinguishing areas on the map.
We located the Moore House on the maps and could work out roughly were it should stand today.
The site of our house stood on the agriculture land of the Moore House. Our house was approximately 20 meters to a roadway. This road was present on all the maps up to the 1876. The archivist explained that this road marked the boundary of Newbridge town and the county side. This meant that the Pontiffs land backed on the road way at the edge of the town. the Pontiffs land stretched to the edge of the Curragh in the other direction.
We asked about any murders in the area and the girl said indeed there was. As it was a barracks town, it was a violent town. She directed me to the newspaper archive area on their website and said that I would find it difficult to find an issue without a murder for the Newbridge area. That was a bit chilling.
The archivist took our number and said that she would contact us if she uncovered anything else.
