Down Memory Lane in Athenry (1948)
Down Memory Lane in Athenry Source: The Tuam Herald, Saturday, September 13, 1997 THE town of Athenry is proud of its hurlers, currently the All-Ireland club champions -though the county…
Down Memory Lane in Athenry Source: The Tuam Herald, Saturday, September 13, 1997 THE town of Athenry is proud of its hurlers, currently the All-Ireland club champions -though the county…
Extract from Ordnance Survey Letters by O’Donovan and Others 2 1838 This plain is celebrated in all the Irish histories and authentic Annals as the site of a bloody…
Of The Parish of Athenry This Parish, lying between those of Moneyvea and Killeeneen, derives its name from the town in which the Parish Church is situated. The name is…
1. Source: The Franciscan Third Order Regular TEMPLEMOYLE-KILTULLAGH. Houses of the Third Order were built at ‘Cowlevernoge, Templemoyle-Kiltullagh & Beagh’ sometime after 1441: Ware 216. CRH f. 6 gives, on…
At the distance of three miles from Monivea to the south, in the Demesne of Edmond Burke Esq., and just at his residence, which is called “Tiaquin House” there…
Punann Arsa: The Story of Athenry (Part 4) Author: Martin Finnerty Source: Galway Observer, December 30, 1950 St. Cairlle’s Miracle – The Lake Monster In those far off days when…
Source: England from a Back-Window; with Views of Scotland and Ireland Published: 1878 Author: James Montgomery Bailey Biographical Note James Montgomery Bailey (1841-1894) was born at Albany, New York, and…
Source: Galway Express March 9 1889 On Monday night considerable bustle was in town expecting the arrival of Mr. P.C. Kelly, of this town, and chairman of the late Temperance…
By Ann Healy Source: Tuam Herald 17 January 1987 In the second and concluding part of ANN HEALY’S account of the now almost forgotten but once famous attempt on…
By Ann Healy Source; Tuam Herald 10 January 1987 IMAGINE, if you will, what it was like to live in rural Ireland a little over a century ago. Only the…