< Previous Index HOME Introduction About Maps Links E-Mail Next >
Click here for a list of places to visit
Go back to the very first page
Introduction and contact information
A word about Ordnance Survey maps
Links to related sites
This is not a link to your mailing program

Loughrea East

OS Map Ref. M 1682.5 2190.0
Road: N6 County Galway

This monument is on the Dublin side of Loughrea on the left hand side of the road, one mile east of the major junction going to Portumna. This was another tragic multiple fatality. The inscription is in Irish and English.

9th April 1950 was a Sunday

I gcuimhne ar
Séamus S. Breathnach
Liam Mac Gloinn
agus Micheál Ó Muineacháin
a fuair bás
ag an ionad seo de bharr timpiste
ar an 9ú Aibreáin 1950

 In memory of
James J. Walsh
William Glynn
and Michael Monaghan
who were killed
at this spot in traffic accident
on the 9th April 1950

Erected by the Father Griffin GAA Club, Galway