Martin William Walsh from
Bohernabreena, married Jane O'Dowd from Ticknock,
founding one of the Walsh families of Rockbrook,
Rathfarnham, in the foothills of the Dublin
Mountains.
Jane Walsh
Martin ran a small farm, and he
laboured in a local quarry. The stone dust he
inhaled weakened his lungs. One wet winter he was
chilled; his cold became a fatal pneumonia. He
left a widow and seven children in 1938.