In drawing up this vista
of the social fabric of Carrigallen village between the years
19001920, I am conscious that
this must be of necessity a very brief sojourn in each house and
home we visit. In compiling this insight into
Carrigallen and its character, I do not claim to have covered
every eventuality or to have the facts in all instances
correct but at the same time it should be a fair blueprint for
future serious historians.
(Above) Main Street, (looking towards Church Street)
Carrigallen, 1908.
Our journey starts in Main Street with Magee's drapery shop. This
business was started by Patrick Briody, a native of
Mullahoran. Local folklore has it that he came here to sell geese
and finished up building a little empire. Patrick
started a drapery business in this house and married Miss Reilly
who was a school mistress in Drumbreanlis. He spent
a lifetime with the county council and at one stage contested
a Dáil seat for Cumann na nGaedheal. Patrick's marriage
produced one child-a son, John, who joined the Irish Volunteers
during the War of Independence.
There were always two
or three assistants in this shop and one of them, Barney Magee
from Aughavore, who was in
service there from the age of 13, later bought the establishment
from John Briody in the 1940's. The next house was
owned by John McLoughlin. A native of Beaghmore, he established
one of the biggest concerns in the West of
Ireland.
(Above Left & Right)
Main Street, 1920's. (Note the
thatched roof of the Globe Hotel, on the left)
This house included a pub, grocery, bakery, hardware, timber
department, funeral directors and had a staff of four
or five assistants and as many yardmen. It is now the property
of Peter Donohoe. When John McLoughlin died
childless in 1912 he left this thriving concern to his favourite
nephew Jack Smyth. Pat Smyth
owned the third house-a
drapery business and shoe shop It employed two or three assistants
and members of the family. It is now the residence
of Thomas Doonan's family and John O'Malley's butcher shop. Patrick
Smyth (a half brother to John McLoughlin)
had two sons, Jack and Alfie, and four girls Eilie, Bridie, Patricia
and Kathleen. The next house is now used as a
store by Paddy McCann.
In the 1950's it was Parr's grocery shop. Before that it was the
property of Matt Rourke from Mullinadara and after
him John Reynolds, whose grandson Sean Reynolds, Beaghbeg, now
lives there. In the early 1920's, it was the
property of Miss Matthews who sold sweets and fruit. She was originally
from Kivvy.
The next business was
James Smith's pub and he had a family of three boys-John Joe,
Jimmy and Pee who all
remained in Carrigallen and worked at various trades. There were
four girls-Anna B, Gretta, Kathleen and a young
girl called Mary Jo. After the death of their father, the boys
gave up running the pub. Next door was Brian Connell's
butcher shop. Brian had been a baker with John Mc Loughlin but
he married a girl from a prominent butchering
family from Killeshandra who introduced him to the trade.
The next house was Dr
O' Reilly's. He came from Tullyvin to succeed Dr O'Donohoe (Killahurk).
Dr O'Reilly had
three sons doctors in Arva, Stradone and Tullyvin, where one of
them, John Joe, became a TD for Cumann na
nGaedheal in the Free State government. The last O'Reilly in this
house was simply known as Cissie the Doctor and
she died in the early 1970's. It is now the property of Kevin
Mc Manus.
Next and where Alfie
Harte's car park is we had several businesses-all two-storey houses. First of all
John Gilpin had
a thriving business as a saddle maker and he lived down at the
Arva/Killeshandra cross where Louis Johnston's home
is now situated. There was also a Maggie Brennan who had a little
sweet shop; she was a native of Augharan and her
relations are still to the good in that area. The Nixon brothers
lived there-Harry and Willie -and their dance band was
widely known. Coach builder Packie White, a native of Toome, Dunreilly,
and his staff of expert coach builders
worked at the rear of these houses. His workmanship was the talk
of the country.
(Left) Whitney's Shop, c 1920.
(Right) Jimmy Smith, Jack O'Keeffe, Pee Smith & John
Joe Smith in O'Keeffe's pub, c 1950's.
After this came Whitney's (the sign still stands over the door)
now the property of perhaps our oldest citizen,
Anna B O'Keeffe. The Whitneys were well known throughout Counties
Cavan, Longford and Leitrim for the quality
of the delph that they sold. There were three brothers Jim, John
and Willie. They conducted their delph trade from
Carrigallen and once a week in Ballinamore, Longford, Granard,
Drumshanbo and Mohill. They also supplied all
the shops in the three counties with delph. With this house there
also went a pub, a grocery, cars for hire and quite
a bit of land. Meals and flour were also sold in this very thriving
business concern. Later on, Jack O'Keeffe inherited
this business from his uncle, Jim Whitney. Jack married a local
girl, Anna B. Farrelly from Drumbreanlis.
The next house to Whitney's
was also a pub. It was owned by Charlie O'Rourke, Aughavilla.
Not only was it a pub
but it also incorporated a grocery, meals and flour store as well
as a posting establishment which meant that the
public could get cars (and before that coaches) to undertake
journeys anywhere. The house employed a pool of local
drivers and you had to be a talented jarvey to get a job in this
establishment. Charlie O' Rourke's son, James, was
later to leave this thriving business to his niece Baby Packenham.
During the 1950's it closed as a pub and is now the
property of John and Ann O'Malley.
Next door during the
1910's was the RIC barracks, which gives its name to the well
just behind it-the Barrack Well.
In 1920, in keeping with
British government policy, all isolated RIC barracks were closed
down and withdrawn to
larger stronger stations, so sealing the fate of the Carrigallen
barracks. It then belonged to Hugh White and was lived
in by his brother Packie until it was sold. The Whites were from
Toome, Drumreilly. Hugh sold this place to Cissie
O'Keeffe (her mother had been a sister of Jim Whitney whom
we have mentioned). Cissie ran a sweetshop here for
many years while her brother Jack operated Whitney's business.
Cissie left this place to her nephew, a Longford man,
Sean McGarry, and he in turn sold it to Mrs Eileen Ward, NT.
The house next door is
the oldest business establishment in town. A pub, it belonged
to John O'Reilly. John left this
business to his son Eugene who also doubled as a taxi driver.
Eugene, a non drinker, was a very capable jarvey, first
with coaches, later with cars; and he had a very big trade in
the taxi business. Eugene had three sons, Ray, a
veterinary surgeon, Jack, a doctor, and Padraig who succeeded
him as a publican, and two daughters, Nell a doctor
in Fermanagh and May a teacher.
We now move to Vincent
Hoban's grocery shop. Where the Ulster Bank now stands lived Johnny
Kiernan, known to
all as Johnny the Bard. Reputedly he was well over 100 years when
he died. He would spend all day singing hymns
and praying, whilst his front door remained open. Where Vincent
now lives, Patrick Briody, the first businessman
I mentioned, built a house, on a site purchased from a man named
McManus. His intention was to build a bakery, and
compete against John McLoughlin and Michael G Harte who had the
bakeries. His idea was that the front of the house
would be a display unit for the produce of the bakery and that
he would poach Brian Connell, a baker, away from
John McLoughlin and set him up in business. However we have already
seen how Brian fell in love with the
butchering business.
Vincent Hoban's father-in-law,
Patrick G Tiernan, was a book-keeper with John McLoughlin, which
was arguably
one of the biggest trading concerns in Co Leitrim and he, as a
single man, decided to rent this house from Patrick
Briody and open a shop of his own. Patrick Tiernan did very well
for himself and his very successful business
included sales of timber, manures, cement, glass and all items
for haysheds. He had one child Lena, who married
Vincent Hoban, a Galway man who had come to work for Patrick.
They bought the property from John Briody, a
son of Patrick Briody. In the 1910's and 1920's Hoban's was the
last house on that side of the Main Street, as the
terrace of six houses built by Alecia McGuinness (neé
Harte) had not been built in those days.
Further down the Killeshandra
road there was the Manse, the residence of the Presbyterian minister.
Going further
down the road one comes upon two houses built by John McLoughlin.
In the first lived Master Paddy Maguire, the
school teacher, who raised many ripples among his students in
his efforts to widen their horizons.
In the adjoining house,
the Cosgroves had a very thriving shoe-making and repair service.
In Eileen Ward's article,
you will find details of their involement in drama.The very last
house down that Arva Road would have been the
curate's house, now owned by Patrick Mitchel.
Now, start again opposite
the first house mentioned, John Briody's.
Right across the street was the Market House property of John
Mc Loughlin. Every Monday was Market Day and
both the village and Market House were a hive of activity. The
same could be said of the fairday on the firstst
Monday of every second month.
On market days carts
would be drawing farm produce to the Market House from morning
till night. Every
conceivable type of farm produce was purchased by John McLoughlin
for export to the cities or overseas.
Merchandise purchased for McLoughlin's shop was also stored here
temporarily for John. He had three or four men
drawing full time from Killeshandra and sometimes Granard railway
stations. Beside the Market House in the 1910's
and 1920's was what was called the hut. It was built and used
by the local company of the Irish Volunteers during the
War of Independence as a meeting place. It was very much a temporary,
collapsible structure. This site was later
bought by Patrick Brennan, Arva, a chemist who built a house and
opened a chemist shop in Carrigallen for the first
time. It is now the property of Mr McCloskey, a retired chemist.
The Brennans had four children of whom Kathleen
is still in business in Arva.
(Left) Charlie O'Neill outside his forge (1930)
where McCanns Centra shop now stands.
(Right) Eugene Mitchell, Paddy McManus, James Kenny &
Charlie O'Neill outside O'Neills forge. (1930)
Now we come to Joe O'Neill's forge which some will remember
as Pee Smiths' bicycle shop (Paddy McCann's new
Centra Supermarket). Joe O'Neill's forge was built well back
off the street as Alecia McGuinness would not allow
anything to impede the view from the side window of the post office.
Joe O'Neill's forge was
big business making loy irons for over a dozen counties. O'Neill
had no equal when it came
to iron work. They made ploughs, gates and loys and as the children
made their way from school they would be
regaled by the sound of the bellows and the interminable hammering
of iron upon iron as the O'Neills mightily plied
their trade. Joe had three brothers-Johnny, Charlie and James
in Killahurk. The O'Neills go back several generations
in Carrigallen and all were blacksmiths.
After the forge we come
to Harte's post office. At that time the post office incorporated
a drapery and was run by
Alecia Mc Guinness. Alecia was one of the Harte family of Carrigallen.
When Michael J Harte died, his brother
Hugh sent Alecia home from the US to run the post office. She
was only nine years of age at that time but never
went back to school after her arrival in Carrigallen. Nevertheless
she proved to be a natural genius and a remarkable
businesswoman.
Alecia's second husband
was a Patrick McGuinness from Manorhamilton and in his time the
post office did a huge
trade as a travel agency. Alecia provided would-be emigrants,
and sadly their number was legion, with everything
they needed for the journey from suitcases and clothes to passports.
She was succeeded by Tom Lockhart, a native of
Sligo, whose son Thomas is the postmaster here now.
In the era 19001920
the house next door was also owned by the Harte family under the
management of Michael J.
Harte who was an uncle of Alecia Mc Guinness.
This establishment boasted
an hotel, a posting establishment where
teams of horses could be changed for the journey, a bakery, ironmongery,
wines, spirits, drugs and all types of
associated business. With the death of Michael J Harte this business
quickly found itself in financial difficulties and in
the 1910's it was bought by the Ulster Bank for its own business
use.
With the widespread depression
of the 1950's the Ulster Bank closed their premises in Carrigallen,
a decision they
have since reversed. In 1955 Ben Harte, a native of Carrigallen
and of the same extended Harte family, bought back
the business. It is again trading as Harte's Hotel with Alfie
and Ciaran Harte in management of a fine building, which
in a way is a fitting monument to the late Maura Garvey, Alfie's
deceased wife.
(Left) Eamon Donohoe's public house, Main st., c 1960.
(Middle) Main Street, c 1960
(Right) Rosemary Connell & Mary Lockhart, ouside of
Parr's shop, c 1958
Next to Harte's Hotel we have Tommy McGuckian's pub which in 1910
would have been the property of Michael
Donohoe. Michael Donohoe, from Dromard, married the owner of this
pub, Annie Rawle, who inherited it from the
Molloys of Killahurk. Annie was born and reared in Killahurk.
There were no children of
this marriage. After the
death of Annie, Michael Donohoe married Evelyn Sheridan from Drumury
who was a nurse and also a sister of
Mrs McIntyre, the district nurse. There were five children of
this second marriage: Anna May who married John
Joe Dolan, Church Street, Michael Joe, Kathleen who married Michael
Murphy, Ballygad, Eamon who married
Mary Maguire of Corlough, and Brendan who married a Clare girl.
Next door to Donohoe's
was the homeplace of the O'Neills (blacksmith). Many generations
of them were born and
reared there. Jack O'Neill the present occupier can go back to
his great grandfather, John O'Neill, also a blacksmith.
Jack has, at the back of his house, carefully and lovingly restored
the old O'Neill forge which stood further down the
street and is now a Mecca for natives, visitors and historians
alike. Beside their forge was a store, and here spare
parts for all types of machinery and farm implements of every
description were sold. In the early part of this
century it was big business.
Beside O'Neill's store
stood Magarahan's hotel which was very affectionately locally
known as the Globe Hotel. Like
most other residences along Main Street at that time it was thatched.
It was owned by Johnnie Magarahan but he left
the running of it to his brother Michael. The Magarahans were often 'at odds' with
the Gilchreests who owned the
forge next door-presumably on the basis that food preparation
and horse dung didn't mix. Despite the basic
accommodation offered by the Globe, many well off people stayed
there so that they could be early for all the local
fairs. On the night before the Ballymagovern cattle fair, Main
Street would be lined with spring carts as buyers
anxious to deal first thing in the morning stayed in Magarahan's
Hotel.
Beside the Globe Hotel
was Gilchreest's forge where Phil, Paddy, Alice and Annie lived.
Their father was a baker in
Longford originally from Lavey in Co Cavan. He married Miss Rowen
from Drumbreanlis, it being the Rowens who
first set up in blacksmithing here. The Gilchreests were first
class blacksmiths and carpenters. They were
wheelwrights and cart builders of unique talent.
Where the fine new St
Patrick's Community Hall and Cornmill Theatre now stand there
were buildings housing three
families. First was Patrick Kiernan, who farmed in Cornaughy and
who was renowned as a man good at healing
animals in the absence of veterinary medicine, and he did not
charge for this service. At one stage Tommy Kennedy's
father of the Batter, Kilbracken, owned this land. Patrick had
a little shop but all he put in the front window were
sugar bags in order to let Inland Revenue believe he was on his
last legs. In fact behind the little shop he had a store
where you could buy almost anything and he was famous for selling
fish. He was reputed to be a very wealthy man,
and it is said he acquired his wealth dabbling in stock and shares.
His father, Patrick Kiernan The Bard, lived on the
opposite side as previously mentioned. They were both, Johnny
and Patrick, decent men.
Next to Kiernans lived
O'Connor, originally from Arva, who dealt in second hand clothes.
His daughter Katie sold
religious goods such as beads and holy pictures at missions in
many counties. She later returned to Arva. The third
man to live in these houses was John Drumm, a mill-wright. He
travelled the countryside repairing corn mill wheels.
Isn't it apt that the site now boasts the Corn
Mill Theatre.
That really was the last
of the houses on that side of the street during the period 19001920,
but the following houses
were built since then. A community hall is a bungalow which Joe
O'Neill built for his sister Mary and is now the
property of the Farrelly family of Gortermone. After the garage
we come to Dr Cusack's house. Then came Tom
O'Reilly's garage. Tom was from Killahurk, served his time in
Brewsters Garage and then built a good garage of his
own. Tom went to England and Ned Maguire, who owned the Erne Bus
Service, took it over. It had first been built
as a private residence by Johnny Smith of Killahurk, a retired
RIC policeman, and later Dr Cusack bought it and
enlarged it. Next house down was built in 1939 by Pat Doherty,
Aughawillan, for Johnny Gallagher, who worked in
Jack Smith's. After this came Packie Cosgrove's who was a shoemaker
in Church Street.
Next house was owned
by Tom Shannon-a first class cooper who made tubs for butter,
churns and barrels for sundry
purposes. Tom left this house to Jack Smyth, who sold it to Michael
Leonard. The Leonard family, now chiefly
based in Northern Ireland, use it as a family home.
Leaving Main Street,
to what is, according to the ordinance survey map, the only house
in Carrigallen. Every other
house is either in Bredagh or Clooncorick. Terry Lynch, a native
of Ballymagovern, started a bar and grocery here
and he married Elizabeth Donohoe. Pat came to work here for Mrs
Terry, as she was known, in 1939 and he
purchased lock, stock, and barrel from her in March/April 1957.
Pat married Clara Greene, Drumcannon, who died
in 1986. What
is now known as the Mohill Road was previously referred to as
the Scordan Road. The first house we
meet is the present residence of Seán McManus, which was
built by Elizabeth Grace of Limerick for her retirement
although she never lived there.
Next was the house and
small shop of Annie Masterson who sold on a small scale such items
as tea, sugar and tobaco.
Annie Masterson was a sister of Charles Sheridan, Calloughs. Her
other brother Thomas Sheridan lived in the
present John Joe Dolan's.Annie's first husband was Kiernan from
Coracreeny and they had three children, Bridget,
who was to marry into the business establishment of James Francis
McManus, Church Street, Elizabeth who went to
work in Limerick, and Mary who emigrated to the USA. The above
mentioned Bridget was the mother of Seán
McManus. Next door to Annie's was the McManus timber business.
The McManus family were highly skilled
tradespeople in the timber business and originated in Drumbreanlis.
Jimmy first set up in
business on the site where Seán McManus now lives and was
later to move up the road to what
it is now widely known as McManus and Gormley Joinery. Jimmy actually
built the present building over and around
a smaller one and he then dismantled the smaller one. These people
did a big business in church furniture in both
Ireland and England.
Next to the joinery there
are three houses built in more recent times by Francie McGovern,
Ballinamore. In the first
house (now Maisie Brady's) Mrs Peter Harte of Calloughs
had a small drapery and newspaper shop. In the middle
house Jack McTiernan carried on an extensive drapery business.
In the third house was Jimmy Joe Charles from
Aughavas, a tailor who married Eileen Flynn. They lived there
before moving to Milltown. It was then that Joe
McHugh the postman came to live there. McHugh sold papers and
a wide variety of goods.
Just across the road
from Jerome Maguire there were two houses built by Edward Lynch,
a builder, who lived in
one of them Tom McIntyre, a tradesman, lived in the other. The
next house on that side of the road was the
residence of Willie Francis, a clerk of the petty sessions, who
had a fine period thatched house with an orchard.
Across the street from Annie's lived a chap called Jimmy Noble,
a saddler from Gortermone. His small abode is now
the car park to a private bungalow beside Patsy McCann's garage/store.
Next to Noble's was a
property owned by Terry Lynch, which is now a store owned by Pat
Masterson. It was at that
time the court house for the petty assizes and was full every
fortnight with solicitors and RIC men.
Next to this was a
garden owned by Annie Masterson where McManus and Gormley now
stack their timber. She also had a cow byre
there as she owned land out the Scordan Road.
After this, we have recently
established residences-Maura Cusack, Gerry Mulligan, Martin Kiernan,
Jerome Maguire,
followed by the extensive vocational school built in the 1950's. Having dealt
with the Main Street and the Scordan
Road, we take a brief look at the Chapel Road. A garden, now owned
by Peter Donohue, originally had out-buildings
owned by John McLoughlin. Two new bungalows are situated nearby,
owned by Jackie and Seamus McManus,
followed by the priest's house. On the opposite side, there is
the old National School built in 1916. Beside it stands
the Gaelic Hall which was built in 1926.
Nearby and in more recent
times Francie Murray's house was built. Brewster's house stands
on the site of the old fair
green. We move down past the barracks, and past the abandoned
workshop of Lily and Maggie Arnold, dressmakers,
to Pat Magee's garage, once the coal house for John McLoughlin's
thriving business. Turning into Church Street we
first encounter the homestead of Felix Maguire, blacksmith.
The house is still there
but is now a store for Pat Masterson's bar and grocery. Felix
had the name of being a cow
doctor or the nearest veterinary surgeon. Next door is Hackett's
which in my time was the property of James Francis
and Bridget McManus. Brigid was a daughter of Annie Sheridan and
Michael Kiernan who lived on the Scordan Road
(as previously mentioned) and after she married James Francis
she started a little shop which grew into a big business.
The Department of Agriculture graded eggs there for export. She
had a travelling shop which for years was operated
by her son-in-law Michael Hackett and John Joe Rudden.
Our next call is to McDermott's,
once a Garda Siochana station and way back in the nineteenth century
rented by a
Catholic priest, Fr D Reilly. Dr Donohoe had a dispensary every
day for many years and was succeeded by Cissie
Reilly's father, Dr O'Reilly. Larry McDermott later bought this
house from Mrs McGuinness after his marriage to
Lucy Sheridan, Killahurk.
Next door there were
three or four very small houses built, on the site of Brendan
Hunt's house. The first was Pat
Gilhooley who was a jarvey for Whitneys, Main Street, the next
was Pat O'Rourke a shoe-maker, next Josie Smith,
tailor, and uncle of the late Jimmy, John Joe and Pee Smith. Next
was Tommy Adams a butcher who wouldn't be in
business today: he killed a few cows in the kitchen for Christmas.
The adjoining house was
Jack McIntyre. Jack drew provisions from Killeshandra railway
station for Jack Smyth's
business on the Main Street. Beside McIntyre lived Francis McManus,
carpenter and grand uncle to Jack McManus, a
decent man with a thriving business. He built all the haysheds
in the countryside and many are still standing to this
day. Together with his brother Willie, they formed a team of great
tradesmen.
We move to the home of
Henry McGee, native of Arva and ex-British Army 19141918.
He was a sergeant in the
Medical Corp and, when refused entry again for the 19391945
war, he was highly annoyed. He did the post from
Carrigallen to Corrawallen but when the Free State came into being,
he lost his position. He had a great ceilidh house
and had great yarns of war, hunger and misery.
There was no hunger in
the next house: it was Cunnion's bakery and it supplied the town
with bread and buns. It was
managed by Michael and Barney. Kilronans, the nailers, lived where Seán
and Patricia Ledwith live today. Kilronans
made nails for the country and the forge stood in the walled enclosure
above Nurse McIntyre's residence, now the
property of John Joe Dolan. Finally, we come to Michael Leonard
who had a little shop and a travelling shop. He
later went to work for Tiernans, Main St., operating their travelling
shop. His daughter Annie lived out her years in
Carrigallen.
(Above Left) Church Street, c 1969.
(Above Right) Con Dolan's public house, 1910's
The first house on the opposite side of Church St. is John Joe
Dolan's. A long thatched public house, it was owned by
a widow, Mrs Reilly. Tom Sheridan of Calloughs married the same
Mrs Reilly. Sometime after the death of Mrs
Reilly, Tom Sheridan married Eliza Quinn of Garadice PO. Tom Sheridan
died and in due course Eliza Quinn was to
marry Con Dolan who had come here from Kildallen to serve time
in Pat Smyth's drapery establishment in Main St.
Eliza Quinn died and after some years, Con married Miss Roseanne
O'Reilly, a teacher in Carrigallen NS (both the
old one in the Church grounds and the new one opened in 1916)
and of this union a son was born, John Joe Dolan of
Tully, Carrigallen, and Leitrim GAA fame.
Reluctantly we leave
the only pub in Church St. Next door was Johnny Cosgrove shoemaker.
This was a powerful
ceilidh house and they had the reputation of being the best at
their trade. Johnny Cosgrove had a powerful interest in
things Carrigallen but in particular the drama and the choir.
One of his sons, Packie, together with Peter Harte,
Calloughs, were interned in Ballykinlar camp for the duration
of the War of Independence.
Next door was the home
of Joe Mullen, member of the RIC Carrigallen until they were evacuated
to Ballinamore at
the height of the troubles. Joe Mullen was later to die in Roscommon.
Next door to Mullen's lived P Gallagher,
Johnny Gallagher's father, who was a process server. Johnny enjoyed
speculating in property and he eventually
finished up in Co Meath. Next was the home of Peter Dolan, brother
of Con Dolan, who was the proprietor of the
"classiest hotel in the town". This hotel catered for
the teachers, bank clerks and commercial travellers. Peter had
retired on pension from the English police and bought this property
from the Kiernans who had been tailors. The
next property to Dolan's is walled in and, as already mentioned,
was the factory forge for Kilronans, the nailers.
Above this property was
the home of John Tuite. John was a watch maker when he put his
mind to it, which wasn't
often, and was quite content to let his sisters hold the reins
as it were. One of his sisters worked in Terry Lynch's and
was later set up in employment by the Godleys in Buckingham Palace.
He played the violin with the choir and Alecia
McGuinness at Sunday Mass.
Next house was O'Neills-both
mother and daughter were dressmakers. After some years the daughter,
Kathleen,
married Pat Sheridan, Cloughla, and they emigrated to the USA.
Finally into Jimmy Hetherton's, a shoemaker and
an extremely hardworking man. He took conacre and was up at the
dawn. Jimmy, a Longford man, had a son who
left for the USA and a daughter who married Johnny O'Rourke of
Mullinadara.
This completes my tour
of the residents and business establishments of Carrigallen in
the period 19001920. It would
not have been possible but for the invaluable memories of two
of our most senior natives, Jim Kiernan, Killahurk,
and Mrs Anna B Fitzpatrick, Killeshandra (formerly Sheridan
Calloughs); and also of John Joe Dolan, Jack O'Neill,
and Jack McManus. They gave of their time and memories in a proud
and loving manner. My sincere thanks to all
five.
This article by Aidan Harte
is from "Carrigallen Parish-A History."
"Carrigallen Parish-A
History."1996, Design inc.
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2003. All Rights Reserved.