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Local
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Lives
of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us,
Footprints on the sands of time.
'Psalm of Life' by H.W.Longfellow
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Down
Memory Lane 2
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St.Bridget's, Whitechurch.This hurling team from 1940
took part in the
first parish league. The other teams were Campile,
Great Island and Aclare. Winners were Campile. |
Back: Watty O'Hanlon(Captain), Paddy Kent, Pat
Sullivan(hat),Tom Dempsey,Jack Doolan(cap),Jim Finn,
(hat) Nick Power,Jim Mullery, Paddy Cassidy(cap),Tom
Hayes and Jim Kavanagh.
Centre:Jack Molloy, Larry O'Brien, Tom Darcy, Pat
Power and John Kavanagh.
Front: Willie Power, Larry Kent,Tom Caulfield and
John Molloy.
Thanks to Mick Shalloe,Great Island for photo
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O'Brien's Forge,Whitechurch. |
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Paddy O'Brien is busy
shoeing a horse in his forge at Whitechurch.
Paddy,the last blacksmith to work here,took over
from his father Bill.The family lived here in Whitechurch before moving to Ballsop.Paddy served
his time as a farrier and received a Certificate
in Farriery from the Department of Education
Technical Instruction Branch in 1931.He was also
awarded a Certificate in Craftmanship Competitions
by the Dept. in 1935 for Farriery. Billy worked a
day a week for the Glascotts of Alderton shoeing
horses. Horses for other large estate owners like
the Prices of Kilmokea and Dean
Drakes of
Stokestown were also shod. Paddy worked here until
1978 as a farrier and also making and repairing
farmyard tools and machinery. The present owner is
John Joe Nolan, a nephew of Paddy, who moved here
in 1972. John Joe does excellent work for
the
'Street Children of Bucharest' charity. The house
is called The Forge.
Thanks to John Joe Nolan,Whitechurch for photo.
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June 25th 2004. Scoil Mhuire 25th Anniversary. Bridget
O'Brien,Aclare, holds
a photograph of Horeswood Girls NS
from 1932 when she was a pupil there and
principal
teacher was Annie Mitchell.
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Presentation in Ballykelly to mark
the leaving of Fr.Brendan KehoeC.C. 1983.
From Left: Seán Walsh,Pete
Caulfield,NedWhitty,Fr.Kehoe,William Lyng,Mary Hearn and
Jimmy Haughton |
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Kathleen Doyle
chatting with President Kennedy in Dunganstown. June
27th 1963 |
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Threshing at Furlong's,Newtown-in
the mid 40's
Front: Maggie Walsh,Sonny Molloy,Stasia
O'Connor,Mickey Corish and Nick Bowe. Phil Corish is on
the bags.Pitchers are Paddy Bowe,?,and Mick Bowe.
Feeders
are Jack Doolin,Pat Bowe and Eddie
Shalloe. The Marshall set was bought by Tom
Kent,Loughstown from Johnny Murphy,Arthurstown. It was
driven by a McLaren
steam engine. |
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Paddy O'Brien,blacksmith in
Whitechurch with Bob Wayland,Ballykelly after having his
donkey shod. |
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Ruins of Killesk old
National School situated near Killesk Castle |
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