Michaels Lane which later became Michaels Street, tough one as none of the early photographers bothered with it (there wasn't much there). I do have a few images, if I don't have enough for a stand alone video it will certainly be included with other streets as I do the tour of Johns Parish. I haven't been to KK in years so do you mean the small carpark across from the Lake School? If so I remember it as a small company, Bach later TransBach. That is a great memory so I will be posting a picture of it on the Kilkenny Down Memory Lane FB page today. If it is the big carpark off Wolf Tone St. A few houses were knocked and others had to give up their gardens for that one.
@@kilkennyinpictures There is a cul de Sac opposite the Lake school I live there it was built around 2002. I heard rumors it used to be a shoe factory. And then the laneway expends out into John's Green Carpark. If you look up a map of Kilkenny it's actually in the dead centre so always wondered what use to be here thanks!
Yes that's the place, there used to be a small factory and the last company to use it were TransBach Ltd. They made rucksacks there up to 1995 when they moved to the industrial est. Before that it was a clothes factory and earlier still Grinsteads organ and piano repair shop. The shoe factory is Padmore & Barnes over on Wolfe Tone St.
Lived in deloughry place most my life . Loved all the surrounding areas Special memories . Black cat 🐈⬛ great shop and pub Davy champions . Great fir a game of pool and bottle of orange and tayto. Just wanted to know why was the Butt's so called named ..
The area became known as the butts (targets) because that was where soldiers and towns people practiced archery as they were compelled to under an Act of the Kilkenny Parliament. Working my way over to you.
Sorry Oliver. The name given to and still used today for an area of a firing range where the targets are is 'the butts.' You might remember from history class 'The Statutes of Kilkenny,' laws that were passed in 1366. Well one of the laws compelled the towns people along with soldiers to practice archery. The area that was designated for this practice was where the Butts houses now stand. The area was outside the town for a long time and as it was just a firing range it just became referred to as ‘the butts.’ The name stuck to the area and eventually someone decided to build in the area and the name just tagged on, kind of like ‘the Village.’ There is another area in Kilkenny also called the butts. I think it lies up around the Coolbawn area.
Loved the black cat . Every thing you needed. Shop. Pub , petrol station , nice friendly family running it .
Could you do a video on Michael street and the carpark there always wondered what that was like years ago but couldn't find anything thanks!
Michaels Lane which later became Michaels Street, tough one as none of the early photographers bothered with it (there wasn't much there). I do have a few images, if I don't have enough for a stand alone video it will certainly be included with other streets as I do the tour of Johns Parish. I haven't been to KK in years so do you mean the small carpark across from the Lake School? If so I remember it as a small company, Bach later TransBach. That is a great memory so I will be posting a picture of it on the Kilkenny Down Memory Lane FB page today. If it is the big carpark off Wolf Tone St. A few houses were knocked and others had to give up their gardens for that one.
@@kilkennyinpictures There is a cul de Sac opposite the Lake school I live there it was built around 2002. I heard rumors it used to be a shoe factory. And then the laneway expends out into John's Green Carpark. If you look up a map of Kilkenny it's actually in the dead centre so always wondered what use to be here thanks!
Yes that's the place, there used to be a small factory and the last company to use it were TransBach Ltd. They made rucksacks there up to 1995 when they moved to the industrial est. Before that it was a clothes factory and earlier still Grinsteads organ and piano repair shop. The shoe factory is Padmore & Barnes over on Wolfe Tone St.
@@kilkennyinpictures Wow thank you for the info!
Lived in deloughry place most my life . Loved all the surrounding areas Special memories . Black cat 🐈⬛ great shop and pub Davy champions . Great fir a game of pool and bottle of orange and tayto. Just wanted to know why was the Butt's so called named ..
The area became known as the butts (targets) because that was where soldiers and towns people practiced archery as they were compelled to under an Act of the Kilkenny Parliament. Working my way over to you.
@@kilkennyinpictures I'm.not getting that explanation
Sorry Oliver. The name given to and still used today for an area of a firing range where the targets are is 'the butts.' You might remember from history class 'The Statutes of Kilkenny,' laws that were passed in 1366. Well one of the laws compelled the towns people along with soldiers to practice archery. The area that was designated for this practice was where the Butts houses now stand. The area was outside the town for a long time and as it was just a firing range it just became referred to as ‘the butts.’ The name stuck to the area and eventually someone decided to build in the area and the name just tagged on, kind of like ‘the Village.’ There is another area in Kilkenny also called the butts. I think it lies up around the Coolbawn area.