Saving the 21 Miles marker

Pictured above is the late Tom Byrne (your editor's uncle) standing beside the '21 Miles' marker stone embedded in the wall surrounding the Cross & Passion College campus.

The picture was taken on June 24, 1985, when the original piece of the wall incorporating the Convent gates was being realigned by Kildare County Council, to facilitate traffic.

Tom was concerned that the historic stone would end up in the Council Yard under a heap of rubble, and made a point of ensuring that it was in fact embedded in the wall.

The full story of the importance and history of the milestone is on the Kilcullen Page of this week's Kildare Nationalist.


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