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  • April 3, 2015
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ATHENRY IN 1889

BY VINCENT J. CARLYLE SOURCE: GALWAY EXPRESS, 1ST JUNE 1889 ‘Foolish People’ The present year shows great prospect of a most beautiful harvest and no doubt the surrounding tenantry have…

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ATHENRY (1846)

SOURCE: Slater’s Commercial Directory of Ireland 1846 Athenry is a small incorporated market and post town and parish, partly in the baronies of Clare, Dunkellin, Kilconnell and Tyaquin, but chiefly…

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Athenry in Olden Times

Source: Tuam Herald, 1915 Athenry was a famous place in the olden times. It was a Parliamentary borough and elected two members to the Irish Parliament. It was a pocket…

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