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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 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…
Source: 1846: Slater’s National Commercial Directory of Ireland Athenry is a small incorporated market and post town and parish, partly in the baronies of Clare, Dunkellin, Kilconnell, and Tyaquin, but…
CHAPTERS OF FACT AND COMMENT ON A GREAT CAMPAIGN BY T.J.K. I THE TOWN Source: Connacht Tribune, Saturday, November 13, 1909 The Town of the Kings is a town…
Sources: Freemans Journal, Thursday, August 22, 1867 Galway Advertiser, Thursday, Oct 21, 2010 Galway…
By Mattie (William) Higgins, Coshla Source: Athenry Journal, Number 12, 1999 From what I have heard from the old people of thirty and forty years ago and the information that…
The Story of the McCoy Family As told to Eamon Madden by Michael Waldron, Mulpit Source: Athenry Journal, Number 13, 2000 The earliest recollection of the McCoy family is when…
The following is a list of the townlands in the Catholic Parish of Athenry together with the area of each and the name of the main landlord/landowner at the time…
Source: The Goodbodys: The Story of an Irish Quaker Family 1630-1950 by Michael Goodbody, 2011 James Perry Goodbody was the owner of the Athenry Estate from 1875 until taken…