Going through the paper yesterday I came across the following: Clare's Oldest Women Dead: (as reported in the Clare Champion on 1st June 1940). Mrs. Bridget Guthrie, Clehane, Liscannor reputed to be the oldest women in Clare died on Sunday last. She was almost 115 years of age. When the present bridge midway between Lahinch and Liscannor was being built exactly 103 years ago, the late Mrs. Guthrie who was then a girl of 12 years, carried the dinners to the workmen employed on the building. In the picture in the article she is pictured with her son Thomas and his wife and daughter. She had a family of sixteen, most of whom are dead. She had nine great great grandchildren In America and three great great grandchildren in Liscannor. Her eldest daughter, who is 85 lives in America. Her funeral to the old historic Churchyard in Kilmacreedy on Tuesday last was representative of every household in the district for miles around. (No relationship to me. For information purposes only).