Riobard, Thanks for the Eyeries Village Recollections and I believe that the Humphery Leary that you mentioned as settling in Clountreem was my father's best friend as a youth and they worked together during the Troubles, since he claimed a pension from the IRA which he said my father should apply for recognition. He never did. Thanks for the memory. I am still working my way through the genealogy you sent me and hope to correspond with some clerical comments. HAPPY NEW YEAR, Ted Harrington I spent the summer of 1957 with my Uncle DaN at Clountreem and each night we would take the cart to the pub with Humphrey ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:46:48 -0000 >From: "Riobard O'Dwyer" <beararesearchodwyer@eircom.net> >Subject: [BEARA] Fw: Eyeries Village in olden times. >To: <beara@rootsweb.com> > >I wonder if any of you have got this which I sent out at 3.47 p.m. yesterday, but which I haven't received back today yet as a member of Beara@rootsweb.com Something seems to have gone wrong somewhere. Must be the cold weather. > ---- Riobard. >----- Original Message ----- >From: Riobard O'Dwyer >To: beara@rootsweb.com >Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 3:47 PM >Subject: Eyeries Village in olden times. > > > Now that I have finished Ardgroom Village and have a few minutes to spare, I will do a quick run through the residents and buildings in Eyeries Village in the olden times. > We will start with the houses in the east end. >1) Mrs. "Cal" O'Callaghan. >2) Jim Forde, Nano, & Bridgie Walsh. >3) Jim (Quin) Murphy's. Mick Lynch had a shop there at one time selling fishing nets and drapery. >4) Jim (the Clerk) McCarthy's (now Bartell's). The McCarthy family were Clerks for the Parish Priests for years. >5) Humphrey Leary's. They went to Clountreem, Castletownbere Parish. It was later Dannie & Julia Murphy's. >6) William O'Sullivan(Cohu) of Bawers lived for a while in what was Jack O'Leary's shop (where the Irish Countrywomens' Association were later). >7) Johnny Hanley's. >8) Catherine's and Annie's. >9) Mrs. Kate O'Leary who had married in New York to Dan O'Leary, a Foreman from Macroom. >10) Chris O'Connell' Post Office (later Joan Lynch's, and formerly Batt O'Rahilly's shoemaker shop). >11) Jerry (Batt) O'Neill's Pub (formerly Patsy O'Neill's pub and shop. Patsy was married 3 times). >12) The workshop of Peter (Cain) Houlihan, a Carpenter. >13) Lena "Red". She was daughter of Jer McCarthy, Primary School Teacher in Kilcatherine. Lena had red hair ---- hence the "christening". >14) Garda/Policeman Morrissey's. >15) Joe (Quin) Murphy's pub (now Causkey's). Quin Murphy went out to work in the Butte, Montana, copper mines. Again in 1899 he returned to Butte to earn more money for his young family, but a rusty nail went through his leg and he died in Butte of blood-poisoning on Christmas eve night 1899, aged 40. Seven days later his youngest son Joe (Quin) --- my wife Joan's father --- was born in Eyeries. >16) Con (Shileen) & Mary Ann O'Sullivan. They had a daughter Josie (Con) who was a Vocational Schools Inspector in Dublin. >17) Dan Houlihan's Bakery. Dan, who was a Primary School Teacher, had two sons Priests; the other son emigrated to New York. >18) Henry Connell's. >19) Bella Connell's Pub. The pub and the house beside it were originally owned by "Texas Jack" O'Dwyer of Scrahan, Urhan. Jack had been ranching in Texas. The building where the pub was later was the first Primary School in Eyeries Village. >20) Den "McNab" McCarthy & his mother (where Dan o' Lack & Mae lived later; and now John Dunne's). >21) Tady T.T. Harrington's pub (later Dan O'Neill's pub). >22) Hanleys (now Donie Houlihan's shop). >23) Jimmy Murphy's. Jimmy was Church Parish Clerk for years. >24) Donie Houlihan's store. >25) Katie Murphy, Dressmaker (originally Pat Murphy's). >26) John (the Tailor) McCarthy. >27) Denny O'Sullivan, a Garda/Policeman from Bonane, Co. Kerry. >28) Patsy Foley's [later Michael (the Tailor) Downing's]. Patsy was from Waterville, Co. Kerry. His father built the Coastguard Station in Gurteen, Eyeries. >29) John (Quin) Murphy's. John was a Carpenter. >30) Eyeries Dance Hall (originally John Quinn's workshop). >31) Patsy Murphy (John Quinn's uncle). >32) A bungalow lived in by John Murphy, Principal Teacher in Urhan Primary School. > NOW UP THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE (from the bottom of the Village and the "Nailer's Height"). >33) Tade (Shearhig) O'Sullivan's workshop. >34) John (Quinn) Murphy's 1st Dance Hall was lived in by Paddy Brassil from Drimoleague who was a Baker by Mrs. Houlihan at Church Gate, Eyeries. The big door of the old Dance Hall was formerly the door of the coach house of the local Parish Priest. The coach house was later the house of Johnny O'Shea, a Tailor. >35) Mike O'Shea's pub. It was originally owned by "Curly" (or Cornelius) O'Leary, a Shoemaker, a Harnessmaker, a Saddler, and a Publican ----- an all-round man !! >36) "Auntie's" --- now Donie Houlihan's second store. >37) Tade (Shearhig) O'Sullivan's house ---- originally Danny Healy's, whose daughter Kathleen married Sean Og Murphy, Secretary of the Cork County Board, G.A.A. >38) the Pump. >39) the Church. >40) Batt O'Neill's. The O'Neill's are the oldest surviving family. They have been there for at least 200 years. >41) Mrs. Dunne. Her husband Jim was a Boatbuilder. He was drowned at the age of 50 years when a "breaker" capsized a small boat in which he was engaged in hauling lobster pots. >42) There was also Paddy Walsh of Dromod, Waterville, Co. Kerry. who came to Eyeries working in the building of the Coastguard Station in Gurteen. Two of his children went to Toledo, Ohio, and the other to Michigan. > -------- Riobard. > > > > > >-- >I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. >We are a community of 5.8 million users fighting spam. >SPAMfighter has removed 1997 of my spam emails to date. >Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > >The Professional version does not have this message > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Ted Harrington tdharrington@powerquipinc.com PowerQuip, Inc 860-868-1363 Office 860-868-1365 Fax 516-578-6032 Cell