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Information on the History of each Building
Photos taken by Gerry Ahern in 2010
Melia’s Gift Shop was a former part of Nolan’s Bar and Grocery. Mrs Nolan had one daughter, Caroline, who married Sean Broderickand who was a TD for Galway West. They had one son, Sean Junior, who died in 1941 aged 7 years
Previous Owners were Christy Broderick and then by Jim and Mary Kelly. Now occupied by Declan Coyle MPSI
View of Church Street
Lardiners: It was a former public house. The owner was Larry Lardiner. He had a brother, Jimmy. The pub was known as the Widow Lardiner’s. Larry Lardiner had one daughter, Kitty.
This house was Broderick’s private house. They had two sons, Sean and Christy and two daughters. One daughter was Mrs Fleming whose husband was from Roscommon and the other daughter, Maureen, was married to John stack from Kerry. There was one son Jackie who died very young. Broderick’s was a boarding house where a lot of cattle buyers would stay on fair nights.
This house belonged to Julia Morrissey who lived in Old Church Street. She had it rented to the Plunketts, Jim and May. They had no family. Their nephew, Maurice O’Neill lived there afterwards. He had a sweet shop in Davis Street. He went to live in Davis Street. Next the Walshs, Joe and Ann. Joe was a foreman at Irish Rail and Ann taught music.
This is where Sonny Glynn had a ? store on part of it. The rest was a ruin. Albert Cummins, Solicitor, built his offices there.
View of Church Street
This was Hefferans. Jack ran a taxi and his wife had a shop. They had three sons, Jackie, Gerald and Leo, and a daughter, Frances, who all went to England
Qualters lived here. Mike worked for Irish Rail. He and his wife Katie had two sons, Paddy and Ned.
This was Durcans. He was from Mayo and married Julia Harding who owned the shop. They kept five cows and sold milk to local people. Mrs Durcan’s niece and nephew, Maureen and Jackie, lived with them. Paddy Greally looked after the cows and the yard.
This house was the private house of Brady’s Butchers. The Bradys came from Meath and old Mr Brady was better known as Boss. He had four sons, Eddy, John, Roddy and Richard who had a farm in Moonbawn. Roddy had a draper shop and was a tailor. Eddie ran the butcher shop. John was a clerk in Lynch’s Bookmakers. They had another son Mickie who had a public house in Northgate Street. His wife was Lynch from The Square. They had one daughter, Virgie, who was reared in Tuam by her aunt. Her parents died when she was very young. Eddie Brady’s wife was Coffey from Ballybackagh. They had four children: Mattie who ran the farm in Moonbawn, Mary (National Teacher), Ann (National Teacher), lives in Kildare, John Joe runs the butcher shop.
This is Brady’s drapery and tailors
The Clarkes lived here. Michael Clarke and his wife had three sons, Mick, Harry and Paddy and four daughters, Mary, Eileen, Ita, Louie. They all left for England. Michael Clarke was the Collector of the Water Rates.
The Regans lived here. He was a stone-cutter and had his workshop in Northgate Street. His two daughters, Nellie who looked after the church and Bridie were always at home. This was a single two-storey thatched house
This was Michael Shaughnessy’s and later John Bane’s. It was single storey thatched house. They both worked at times for the railway. Tom Bane was also caretaker of the cemetery.
View of Church Street
This was Glynns. It belonged to Bridgie Glynn. She married Mattie Feeney who worked in Corbetts and was involved in the potato export trade. They had two daughters, Mary and Ann. At one time Lynchs had a bookie office there.
This was Roger O’Dea’s who was an uncle of Mrs O’Malley who later owned the house
This house was Rabbittes. Patrick, Mrs Paddy as he was known, worked for thirty years in the Agricultural College. He had three sons, Greg, Joe and Frank. Joe and Frank left for England while Greg worked as a signalman for Irish Rail
This house was Ms Mary Ann Rabbitte’s who was a dress-maker. She was a sister of Mrs Jim Fahy of Centra Grocery.
Greallys. Denis and Mrs Greally had three in family; Delia was left a farm by her uncle in Benmore near Loughrea. Paddy worked at Taylor’s Mills and Ned worked in Durcan’s Bar.
