December 15, 2011

1911

Dunmore ‘farmyard’At Dunmore Petty Sessions, Messrs. T. O’Rorke, J.P. (in the chair) heard that Constable Carroll summoned Michael Glennon, Dunmore, for allowing a cow, his property, to wander on the public road at Dunmore.

Defendant said he had the cattle grazing at Capt. Martyn’s residence and they broke out. Mr. Martyn remarked that there were cases of a similar nature about a year ago and the magistrates held that the herd should be summoned.

Mr. F.B. McDonogh, solr., said he was noting as solicitor for two other people who were concerned in similar cases. There were, as Mr. Martyn stated, cases last year which were dismissed owing to the bad condition of the fences.

Head-constable Cheasty said that in one of the cases referred to by Mr. McDonogh as acting in, the cow was found outside the Protestant Church gate, chewing her cud, “which was disgraceful”, commented the head constable.

Mr. McDonogh, solr., asked what more disgrace was it on Sunday than on a weekday.

Head-constable: These cattle are wandering all round town, and the public street of Dunmore is practically a farmyard, and the owners are not making any effort to mind them.

Defendant was ordered to pay 6d fine and costs.

Prisoners’ releaseOn Friday evening when the news reached Kinvara that James Kavanagh and Martin Kenny, who were arraigned at the Connaught Winter Assizes on a charge of firing at Patrick Linnane, at Cappacasheen on November 3, were acquitted by order of Judge Dodd, who refused to allow the defence to be entered into, the greatest enthusiasm prevailed.

As pre-arranged, a bonfire was lighted on the top of Dungara Castle, followed immediately by another on Newtown Castle, and as they could be seen for miles around, the contagion spread like wild-fire, and within an hour bonfires were blazing along by the seaboard and in every corner of the parish.

1936

Englishman on AranSean O Gallchobhair, secretary of the County Galway Board of Health, reported that there was at last a possibility of having the famous fairy-cottage on Aran occupied. This cottage, which was supposed to be inhabited by the fairies, was unoccupied for a long time and they could not get a tenant for it, but now an Englishman was coming all the way to Aran. Apparently, the fairies were not going to frighten him.

Mr. Keane: Maybe it is the king. Is his name Windsor? (laughter)

Secretary: No, he is from Yorkshire. He is coming to spend the rest of his life in Aran. He has been coming there on holidays every year for a long time.

The Board decided to have the cottage repaired for the new tenant from England.

Artisan housesThe tenants of the thirty artisans’ houses at Parkmore and McHale Terrace may now purchase their houses for the sum of £128 each. These houses were built in 1911 and the money for building them was obtained by loan, to be repaid in sixty years. The amount, £128, is the sum required for each house to pay off the total balance due on the loan to the Board of Works. The tenants are free to purchase their own houses individually.

Storm havocThe Galway Bay Steamship Company’s vessel, Dun Aengus, which was out on Galway Bay between 3.30am and 5pm on Sunday, with over 700 volunteers for the Spanish civil war, received a severe pounding from the waves when she ventured outside the mouth of the bay. She took shelter under Black Head while awaiting the foreign vessel which was to take aboard the volunteers.

For more, read this week's Connacht Tribune.