Keane of Kilnamona
Children: Ann and John - - -
- - - Above: Angela and Thomas (see below) meeting for morning coffee at Bewley's Grafton Street, Dublin, July 2007
Left: Angela responding to toasts at an extended family celebration of her eightieth anniversary at the Old Ground Hotel, Ennis, April 1, 2006. Her children Ann and John sit on either side of her.
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Michael Matthew
(Matt) Property Developer and apartment
landlord. Born on 29 September 1932 as
per birth certificate but family lore has it that to comply within legal time
limit for registration, it may indeed have been 29 August). Matt started his
career on the home farm after national school, then emigrated to the U.S in late
1957. After
some three years there, he returned to Ireland and started work in insurance
sales in Dublin. Within a few years
Children: Emma, Rachael, Catherine Ann, Michael, Elizabeth, David and Rebecca Matt died from complications of Mesenteric Arterioscelerosis, coronary artery disease and Mesenteric Ischaemia on 20 February 2013 after turning 80 years. A faithful follower of Clare hurling and much loved for his quirky ways managing his business and money there was an exceptionally large attendance at his funeral. Over: Headstone erected over Matt's resting place
.
Over: Photo taken at
the wedding reception for Elizabeth Keane and Andrew Roy (Sydney,
Australia) held at the
Spanish Armada Hotel, Spanish Point, County Clare, June 1, 2014.
Thomas/Tom
University
Graduate, Senior
Meteorologist,
Irish Meteorological Service (Met Éireann). Born 8 December 1934, Tom
contracted polio in 1942; In
1965 Tom married Maureen Kielty,
Sligo (known later as
Children: Damian, Fiona and Sheana.
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Padraic (Pat) Property
Developer. Born
on 9 March 1936, Pat contracted polio in his childhood in November 1942
(together with his brother Thomas) which necessitated extended stays in hospital
in Ennis (1943) and Dublin (1948)and left him with a noticeable step. Pat
trained in Ennis as a cabinetmaker and emigrated
to London in 1955 and to New York, US in 1958. Pat married Sheila O'Donnell, from
Donegal in U.S.A in 1960. Returning to Ireland in 1965, and after a few years as
an insurance agent,
he started in the business of house conversion into apartments in the
Rathgar and Rathmines areas of Dublin.
Above: Pat at Kathleen's wedding in 1992 Children: Patrick (deceased after birth, 1963), Thomas, Maureen (deceased, 1980) and Kathleen. (see Sheila top right hand of Matt's family photo above.) |
Above: Matt with daughters Elizabeth, Rebecca and Rachael,
January 2002
Dr Máire Uí Chatháin, Lecturer in the Education, St. Patrick's College,
Maynooth (National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM)). Agrometeorologist
in Met Éireann from 1979, and Senior Meteorologist and Head of Research and
Applications Division from 1995, he founded the AGMET Group and participated in various related national and international working
groups; and variously editor and contributor to agrometeorological publications. Tom
retired at the close of the twentieth century continuing to be active in various capacities
such as in
In the 1970's/80's he undertook various
major projects as sub-contractor in city centre property developments, e.g. Powers
Court Shopping Centre and the conversion to a shopping centre of the former Wicklow Hotel, Dublin.
Setting up Pat Keane Construction Ltd, he purchased Blackrock House, Co Dublin in
the late 1980's and converted it into a senior citizens' nursing home and senior
citizen housing complex. Open to business possibilities and a risk taker, Pat was a perfectionist
in his business,
demanding high standards of himself and his employees. He was vivacious, readily engaging
and easily made friends. Pat took up golf later in life. Pat died from a
protracted coronary heart condition on 13 March 1993 and interred in Shangannagh cemetery, near Bray, Co Wicklow (