February 2, 2011

1911

Attack outrageA large and representative meeting of the parishioners was held on the chapel yard, Lackagh, on Sunday, the Rev. Father Heaney, P.P., presiding when the following resolution was unanimously adopted: -“Resolved – That the cowardly attack perpetrated at Lisheenavalla on Wednesday night, endangering the inmates of an industrious home deserves the condemnation of every justly minded person, especially so when it becomes known that the Collins family offered the Kiltulla farm for sale four years ago to the C.D. Board, and offered within the past four weeks to abide by the arbitration of the M.P.s of North and South Galway.

“This farm (mainly demesne land and bog) was purchased in 1900 at a public auction. Its present owner in an industrious tenant whose residential holding and buildings are valued less than seven points. Adjoining the disputed farm are hundreds of Irish acres held by non-resident graziers, about whom there is not even a whisper.”

Cornstacks burnedWhat appears to have been a most wanton outrage occurred at Kinvara on Sunday night last, when three large stacks of corn, the property of Mr. Michael Corless, were burned to the ground. The affair is said to be malicious and it is altogether inexplicable in view of the fact that Mr. Corless is one of the most popular traders in the district. He has not, it is stated, taken sides in the political controversy that has been raging in the district for some time.

An ugly feature of the affair is that no attempt as made by the onlookers, says the correspondent, to save any of the corn.

Lackagh moonlightersA daring gun raid was made at Lackagh on Tuesday night, January 24th, at about 8 o’clock, when a party of disguised moonlighters entered the house of a Mrs Greaney and there and then demanded a gun supposed to be kept in Greaney’s house. The gun was refused, whereupon the moonlighters proceeded to raid the house.

1936

Salthill ChurchCanon Davis wishes to return sincere thanks for contributions received since last publication. There is an overdraft in the bank of £2,000, and another payment to contractor is already due. “I expect to have the Church completed by next June so as to be available for Holy Mass for our summer visitors. The furnishing of the Church will be a big item, and I therefore earnestly appeal to all who have not yet contributed to come to my assistance. Gifts of Chalices, Vestments, Altars, etc., in commemoration of deceased friends will be gratefully received.”

Child deathThat death was due to shock and injuries from burns, which were accidental, was the verdict of the Coroner, Dr. Cusack, sitting without a jury at St. Brendan’s Terrace, Ballinasloe on a 12 year 8 month old boy. The mother of the child said the children were in bed upstairs when she left the house for a few minutes, the father having gone to work.

When she returned, she found the child screaming and his clothes alight. She pulled the clothes off him and rolled him in a sheet. He was then badly burned and died in a few hours. The child must have come downstairs while she was out, as she found some pieces of burned timber which he had pulled from the fire.

Dr. Daly, M.O., who was early on the scene, said the child had extensive burns to the face and body. He did all he could for him, but there was then little hope, and he reported the matter to the Guards.

Quay prospectsThe hopes of people living on Turbot Island, who have long been agitating for the provision of a new quay on the north side of the sialdn, were raised during the week by a visit from an engineer who apparently took measurements of the present quay and the proposed site of the new one. The provision of a quay in Turbot will be a highly useful and desirable work. At present the accommodation provided for putting off or landing is inadequate and dangerous. In certain winds, there is an actual risk to life and limb.

For more, read this week's Connacht Tribune.