Birth registrations for one hundred years ago (1919) and marriages for 75 years ago (1944) have recently been added to irishgenealogy.ie. Records from these years in Annaghdown parish are as follows…
Newsletter 5, Winter 2019
Our Summer 2019 newsletter was printed in December 2019 and distributed to local shops and Corrandulla Post Office. We welcome articles, items of interest, other material and suggestions for future editions.
Major P. Kirwan’s Property, County of Galway
Major P. Kirwan’s Property, County of Galway TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN. SIR — Some time since I read in the Freeman’s Journal certain speeches and reports, which were well calculated to prejudice the public mind against my father,
Visit to Old Irish Home: Kavanaghs of Gortroe, 1908
Omaha Daily Bee, August 1908: More than fifty-eight years after they left their old home in Ireland, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Cavanagh, 5056 North Twenty-fourth street, will visit it again.
Land Agitation in Galway 1920-23
By Johnny Burke In the early 1920s, with the battle for an independent Irish Republic at full pace, when IRA Volunteers were taking the fight to the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, the land question was still a major issue
The Coen Family
By Mary Margaret Burke July 2018 marked the coming together of the Coen family of Anbally for the first time in many years, when the descendants of John Coen and Sarah Spelman gathered at Cloonacauneen Castle. John Coen was born
The 1918-19 Flu Epidemic in Annaghdown
By Paul Greaney It is just over one hundred years since the influenza pandemic, commonly known as the Spanish Flu, swept through Ireland and infected one fifth of the population. The death registers for Turloughmore and Headford registration districts indicate
Newsletter 4, Summer 2019
Our Summer 2019 newsletter was printed in June 2018 and distributed at the Corrandulla Show on 23 June, and thereafter at local shops and Corrandulla Post Office. We welcome articles, items of interest, other material and suggestions for future editions.
Cahermorris/Glenrevagh Group Water Scheme
By Tommy Greaney (1923-2016) I was born on 4th July 1923 and was second in a family of 6. My parents, Patrick and Mary Greaney lived at Cahermorris Cross where our house was used as the local dispensary and subsequently
Water
by Peter Newell Water. Let us pause for a moment and dwell upon this element which is essential to all life. Our bodies are believed to be made up of 60% water and this same substance covers 70% of the