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Bee Verheyden, parent and now Kilkenny Steiner School administrator, feeling at home in a new community

Irish Roots: The History of the Tobins

€200,000 funding to progress Callan Community Solar Park

gov.ie - Minister Ryan announces package of supports to expand community energy revolution

Kilkenny company to benefit from new community renewable energy supports package

Kilkenny Steiner School set to expand to include secondary education

Kilkenny Steiner School set to expand to include secondary education Reporter: Kilkenny Steiner School is expanding and from September will provide secondary school education. The primary school has been providing a Steiner Waldorf education to children in the county for over 25 years at Ballytobin in Callan and currently has 47 students on its books. From September children will have the opportunity to continue with this model of education through the establishment of a secondary school. The school will, in time, cater for children aged 12 to 16 years by offering Classes 7, 8 and 9 (the equivalent of the Junior Cycle). In September we will have a combined class 6/7, for which six places are available.

Appeal for information over bouncy castle missing from Kilkenny farmyard

Appeal for information over bouncy castle missing from Kilkenny farmyard Reporter: ');  '); Gardaí are investigating the theft of a bouncy castle from a farmyard in the Ballytobin area of Callan. The, princess carriage, bouncy castle was taken sometime between  February 1 and Good Friday. Gardaí in Callan are appealing for anyone with information to contact them. If you have a story or want to send a photo or video to us please contact the Derry Now editorial team on 028 7129 6600 for Derry City stories Or 028 7774 3970 for County Derry stories. Or you can email editor@derrynews.net or editor@derrypost.com at any time.

Roots: The History of the Tobins | Irish America

Tobin is not an indigenous Irish name, but the family can be regarded as having become completely hibernicized. Its Irish form, Toibín, is a gaelicized version of the Norman ‘St. Aubyn.’ Another interpretation is that the name was first called de St. Aubyn and the original bearers were from Aubyn, in Brittany, France. According to the renowned Irish historian and genealogist, Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), the family came to Ireland in the wake of the Norman invasion and by 1200 were settled in Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, from where they spread to the neighboring counties of Waterford and Cork. They are still found in considerable numbers in those counties, though the name is relatively rare elsewhere in Ireland. The Tobins became so influential in Co. Tipperary that in medieval times, the head of the family was known as Baron of Coursey, though this was not an officially recognized title. According to Clyn in his annals, the fourteenth century Tobins were a turbulent sept more dreaded by the English settlers than the native Irish. The place Ballytobin near Callan, Co. Kilkenny took its name from them.