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Irish Heritage Trail

1. Catholic education building 2. Cathedral Crypt 3. East Cemetery 4. Protestant Hall 5. Irish Club 6. An Gorta Mor – Market Square Park 7. The grave of C. Y. O’Connor 8. C. Y. O’Connor sculpture 9. ’s statue of O’Connor 10. Warehouse where the first arriving convicts were housed 11. prison 12. Mundaring Weir 13. Rockingham Wild Geese Memorial 14. John Boyle O’Reilly Information Point

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1. Catholic education building 5. Irish Club were initially housed in the warehouse premises of 50 Ruislip St, Leederville W 61 Townshend Rd, Subiaco the harbourmaster, which is now the Esplanade Hotel. The buildings which comprise the Catholic Education The Irish club hosts a range of events related to culture, Shortly after the arrival, work began on the building of a Centre were established in stages from 1903 to the plays, music, and sport from around the globe. Convict Establishment prison, now Fremantle Prison. 1920s by the Good Shepherd Sisters. In 1905, an industrial-sized laundry was constructed. The large 6. An Gorta Mor – Market Square Park 11. Fremantle prison kitchens within the convent provided a catering service Roberts Road, Subiaco 1 The Terrace, Fremantle for hospitals and although the main purpose of the A memorial to the Irish Famine - An Gorta Mór – was Initially known as the Convict Establishment (or just laundry was also to provide a service for the hospitals designed and created by Irish Australians Charlie and The Establishment), Fremantle Prison was constructed many of the principal hotels and cafes, including some Joan Smith (Smith Sculptors). between 1851 and 1859, using convict labour. private families, were sending their laundry also. 7. The grave of C. Y. O’Connor 12. Mundaring Weir 2. Cathedral Crypt , Carrington Street & Leach Mundaring Weir, Sawyers Valley 17 Victoria Sq, Perth Highway, Palmyra The Irish Australian engineer C. Y. O’Connor was Archbishop Patrick Joseph Clune (an Irishman) was Charles Yelverton O’Connor (C. Y. O’Connor) (11 January involved in the design of a scheme that transported the first Archbishop of Perth. He was laid to rest in the 1843 – 10 March 1902), was an Irish engineer who is water to the Eastern Goldfields of Coolgardie and crypt of his cathedral on 3 September 2013. best-known for his work in Australia, especially the Kalgoorlie in the eastern part of . The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme and the Fremantle weir was completed in 1903. The lake created by the 3. East Perth Cemetery Harbour. C. Y. O’Connor was subjected to prolonged dam was known as the Helena River Reservoir, however Bronte St, East Perth criticism by members of the press and also many it is now known as Lake C.Y. O’Connor. The Goldfields The East Perth Cemetery is the burial place of a number members of the Western Australian Parliament over Water Supply Scheme is a pipeline and dam project of Fenians. This included Joseph Noonan, who went the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme. O’Connor took that delivers potable water from Mundaring Weir in into partnership with Hugh Brophy, establishing a highly his own life on 10 March 1902, less than a year before Perth to communities in Western Australia’s Eastern successful bridge building and construction company. the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme was officially Goldfields, particularly Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. The They won a number of contracts from the Catholic commissioned, by shooting himself while riding his project was commissioned in 1896 and was completed Church, the government, and private enterprise, and horse into the water at Robb Jetty, south of Fremantle. in 1903. hired ticket-of-leave men to do stone cutting, carpentry and labouring. Their buildings include Walter Padbury’s 8. C. Y. O’Connor sculpture 13. Rockingham Wild Geese Memorial store and residence in Guildford, the Greenough Flats Robb Road , C. Y. O`Connor Beach, North Coogee Esplanade Road, Catalpa Park, Rockingham police station, the convent for the Sisters of Mercy in A sculpture of a man sitting astride an unsaddled horse, When the last convict ship (the Hougoumont) slipped Goderich Street Perth, and St. Patrick’s church in York. commemorates C. Y. O’Connor, who shot himself at into Fremantle, on board were a number of Fenian It is believed that Noonan was involved in planning the the beach on 10 March 1902. It consists of a bronze Prisoners. These Fenians, among them John Boyle Perth Town Hall. Noonan remained in Western Australia, statue 30 metres off the beach in the ocean. It is fixed O’Reilly, kept a journal during their voyage to Australia. living in Howick Street Perth, and maintaining his to the sea floor and supported by a steel pylon sunk six Their writings, are on a series of plaques, some of which republican beliefs throughout his life. He died on 18th metres into the seabed. you can see at the Rockingham Wild Geese Memorial, May 1885, and is buried in the East Perth Cemetery. which marks the point at which they made a daring 9. Pietro Porcelli’s statue of O’Connor break for freedom on the coast of Western Australia. 4. Protestant Hall Fremantle Port, Fremantle 160-162 Beaufort Street, Perth The Monument to C. Y. O’Connor was built in 1911 and 14. John Boyle O’Reilly Information Point Built in 1901 for the Protestant Alliance Friendly was designed by Pietro Porcelli. Leschenault Conservation Park, near Bunbury Society, one of many voluntary associations for mutual Although he was not active in the March 1867 Rising, it aid established across Australia from the nineteenth 10. Warehouse where the first arriving convicts were was Boyle O’Reilly’s Fenian membership that brought century that were the key providers of medical services housed him to Australia as a convict in the first place. O’Reilly and financial assistance in times of need prior to The Esplanade Hotel, 18 The Esplanade, Perth was here for a relatively short time – from January 1868 these matters becoming government-managed social The arrival of the convicts was a surprise to many of to February 1869 – but nevertheless is a hero in these services. the Swan River Colony settlers. As no preparations parts and is remembered on an annual basis for his life had been made for their arrival, the colony had no jail and literary works as well as his historical significance to capable of housing so many convicts. The convicts Western Australia and the Bunbury area in particular.