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Who was Paddy Browne?

  • 12-07-2011 9:18pm
    #1
    fricatus
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    Lads, we were just wondering. Paddy Browne, as in Browne's Road.

    Who was he?


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  • #2
    wellbutty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 478 ✭✭wellbutty


    From what I've heard, just a normal fella who lived in the only house on this long straight country road. When it became built up in 60s, the road took his name!


  • #3
    fricatus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    wellbutty wrote: »
    From what I've heard, just a normal fella who lived in the only house on this long straight country road. When it became built up in 60s, the road took his name!

    Nice to be immortalised like that! :D


  • #4
    deise69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭deise69


    http://www.stpaulswaterford.ie/stpaulswaterford/main/about_history.htm
    St. Paul's Community College is situated on Browne’s Road, a stretch of road almost a mile in length, which runs from Tycor Road at the Waterworks to the main Waterford/Cork Road opposite Woodlawn Grove housing estate.

    The road derives its name from Paddy Browne, a residential occupier who farmed thirty-one acres in the town land of Lisduggan Big in the 1840’s. The road itself was laid out and constructed in the period 1846-1847 as a famine relief scheme under the Public Works.


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