Enniscorthy's heritage for sale on eBay?

Judgement Day

As a regular eBay user living in the South East one of my regular searches is for Enniscorthy items and for some months now this item has been driving me mad - see what you think of it: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Enniscorthy-Prison-Jail-Shackles-Ireland-Eire-Irish-/390143394023?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5ad65bc0e7#ht_1801wt_1139

Titled 'Enniscorthy Prison Jail Shackles Ireland Eire Irish' the piece of chain has a mighty price tag of $999.99 on it but is it of any significance and is it worth anything remotely bordering on this figure?

Missent

Judgment Day, have seen that item for quite a while on Ebay and see no reason why it can be linked to Enniscorthy given that it only bears a number. Not remotely worth the money in my view.

allthedoyles

Missent wrote: »

Judgment Day, have seen that item for quite a while on Ebay and see no reason why it can be linked to Enniscorthy given that it only bears a number. Not remotely worth the money in my view.

Enniscorthy is written on the lable if you look closely.

I know some people worked on renovations in a Courthouse ,and there are many ' crime scene '' exhibits in the cellar.

Items going back to the last century .

This item reminds me of this

bmaxi

At least this guy stands to get some benefit from the sale of our heritage, unlike the rest of us. :mad:
It looks to me like the very sort of thing you could be doing with in Enniscorthy.

Missent

Thanks, allthe doyles. Had looked at that item several times and couldn't figure out the link to Enniscorthy.

Ian7

have you tried getting in touch with the seller?
could it have originated from the Enniscorthy RIC barracks?

TheChevron

Someone should make him an offer, of say one tenth of what he is looking for. The guy could be chancing his arm with that price seeing as he does not know where it came from or when it dates from.

Ian7

sorry if i'm slightly straying of topic here but i just realised that i have no idea where the RIC barracks was in Enniscorthy. My first instinct would be Barrack street but that area was chock full of malting buildings. Can anyone help me out?

Ian7

Ian7 wrote: »

sorry if i'm slightly straying of topic here but i just realised that i have no idea where the RIC barracks was in Enniscorthy. My first instinct would be Barrack street but that area was chock full of malting buildings. Can anyone help me out?

Sorry, just answered my own question here by chance..
looks like it was based at no. 2 court street where byrnes bookstore is now
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003567019/

klong

Ian7 wrote: »

Sorry, just answered my own question here by chance..
looks like it was based at no. 2 court street where byrnes bookstore is now
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai003567019/

Then moved to Abbey Square, where the car park is now. It was certainly there in 1916 and the first Garda station was there also. New Garda station built in 1967 and present one in early 1990s.

Apologies for dragging up old topic! Was looking a somewhat similar topic and this thread popped up

Ian7

Cheers Klong!

By the way, just looking back at my question there and wondering why Barrack Street was named Barrack Street?

klong

Quite possibly from a militia barracks which stood on the street; this is mentioned in the Enniscorthy 1500 book on page 35.

In 1843 the building was a corn store and was subsequently demolished when the Roche Maltings were built (where Dunnes is now) later in the 19th century.

Ian7

interesting. When was it there? It must have been there at quite an important time for the street to have been named after it. may have a read through that book later there. Could the town have had two barracks at once? i.e. constabulary and military?

klong

Possibly, though it wasn't unusual for the military to have a policing function, though that was usually in the days prior to the constabulary being established.

There was what was described as a "temporary" barracks in Enniscorthy in 1811 with over 400 officers and men- perhaps it was on the Barrack Street site.