D,W and W railway cottages in Quarry street

[bainin]

In the 1901 census my great grandmother is living in a railway company owned house,  on Quarry St., Ballynultagh, Shillelagh. By that time she was a widow and earning her own living as a midwife far away from her home town of Drogheda. Does the fact that she was a tenant of the Dublin Wicklow and Wexford Railway mean that someone in the family, her husband or maybe a son was likely to have been a railway employee ? Could there  be no connection with the railway at all? Any ideas?

[ourgang]

Usually if someone lived in a railway house they worked for the railways. I dont know Quarry Street but in 1901 the line was still opened and someone in the family must have worked for the railway. A lot of old records exist in C.I.E the company which took over the D,W and W company. Try C.I.E Group Property at Oriel Street, Dublin who deal with all railway property.