P.L. Travers was a direct descendant of an earlier writer, Samuel “Premium” Madden, (1686-1765) a pioneer of the science fiction genre

Historyeye looks at two surviving religious censuses taken in Wexford in the mid 19th century.

According to the burial records of the catholic parish of St. James & Hook, Mary Kenny, of Haggard in Hook, died 15/10/1850 aged 109 years.