Castle Brown 30.7.1800 at Cockburn's / 3.6.1800 dine at Brown's / 3.2.1804 Castle Brown at H Rowan's / 22.2.1804 meet H Rowan & Castle Brown
Probably Thomas Wogan Browne 1758-1812 son of Michael Browne and Catherine Wogan of Castle Browne, Co. Kildare. Raised a Catholic he converted to the established chuech on his marriage to Sarah Pierson 1.12.1785. He lived at Castle Browne from 1788 and in 1794 offered to act as bondsman for Archibald Hamilton Rowan DNB 1751-1834 when Rowan was imprisoned for sedition. Browne was a captain in the yeoman cavalry and his commission was withdrawn by the government who suspected him of being a United Irish leader. He committed suicide in 1812 and his younger brother Michael an officer in the Saxon service sold Castle Browne to the Jesuits. It is now Clongowes Wood College. See rds.ie (the website of the Royal Dublin Society) and turtlebunbury.com. Pn 3.6.1800 Godwin was on his journey from Dublin to Carlow and Castle Browne was not far out of his way, a few miles north of Naas which he noted passing through the next day