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ISSUE NO. 9 :; APRIL EDITION 1987 :: PRICE: 40p MADAM E ...... The Rebel Countess

JIM McGARRY

Towards the end of the last Of the big field only four THE century, a big crowd had were seriously in the running gathered on Claragh Hills, approaching the last double TITANIC Co. for the annual point bank, three men and the to point meeting of O'Hara's solitary female, riding neck to Harriers. It was a bitterly cold neck. The flag-poles marking day, intensified on the bleak, the course over the bank The Cloonagashel shelterless hills. But it was lit were just sufficiently wide by the personality of a local apart to allow three horses to Connection heroine of the hunting field, cross it abreast. The three immaculately attired and riders decided this was the A letter from Sr. Monessa King of superbly mounted. place to shake off the Needham, Mass., U.S.A. to George Ladies' Races had not been favourite. But they reckoned Hannan of Cloonagashel has introduced at that time and so revealed how a quirk of fate without the indomitable probably saved the lives of it was that in the principal courage and horsemanship of George's mother, Hannah (nee open race, there was a their opponent. It looked like King) and Charlie King when the solitary lady rider in a dark suicide as the four riders Titanic sank on the night of April green riding habit, riding 14th, 1912, with 1,500 casualities. raced n a solid phalanx to the Charlie King of Cambs had side-saddle. A renowned bank , with the favourite on returned to on the vacation horsewoman whose breath- the inside. Instead of in the spring of 1912. Charlie had taking exploits cross-country slackening her speed as the booked his return passage to the were the topic of the day - U.S. on the Titanic. His cousin, others expected, she lifted Hannah King, then aged 15, was she was the focus of all eyes her crop and drove for the as she weighed in for the big anxious to emigrate and Charlie bank, landed on it a stride in was to take her under his wing race. Finally she emerged front of the others, was first for the vogage. However, some from the saddling enclosure off it and first home. The hill of heart-searching and indecision on to a spontaneous cheer from Claragh echoed the wild the part of Hannah's parents caused the spectators. both Charlie and Hannah to miss applause of the excited the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Many of the best point to crowd for their favourite's Titanic. No doubt the subsequent point riders in Connaught win. It was yet another story disaster dispelled any were in the big field, but to add to her already annoyance Charlie King may have felt as a result of the upsetting of his there was no doubt about the legendary epic of horseman- travel arrangements. favourite with the crowd. ship. Contd. Page 14 Eventually, Hannah King decided against emigration and she later married Josie Harmon of Happy Easter Wishes O'Connell Street, Ballymote. 2 The .Year of the Blizzard By P.J. DUFFY February 23rd, the storm On the leaves of Forty years ago this month, had blown over, and the thatched houses huge icicles the country shivered in what, great search to locate sheep clear as crystal glass pointed so far, has been the worst. and cattle got underway. It towards the ground, and at snowstorm of the century, was here that the use of a dog the outlets from spring wells, and for many people a sort of became a major source of ice crystals formed nightly as dark never to be forgotten assistance, in locating live the surplus water edged its phenomenon. animals trapped in their snow way through freezing February 21st, 1947 was a tunnels, for although large temper-atures. bitter cold day which had numbers had perished there Mention of icicles reminds been preceded by weeks of were still hundreds of me of a little incident which similar harsh weather, in survivors trapped in this way. took place at the time, when a which black frost froze the In the case of the sheep, local chap went to a lakes and rivers of the what usually happened was neighbours house to have a country. In the afternoon a that they moved into circles, number of buttons sewn into stiff North Easterly breeze heads together, pointing the waist of his trousers. The began carrying with it specks upwards as the drifting snow job of sewing the buttons fell of tiny snowflakes which pitted them in. The sustained to a girl who lived next door, continued to fall up until the heat rising from their breath but who happened to be time people retired to their often melted the snow to a visiting at the time. In order to beds. Many harboured hopes height of several feet above avail of the maximum amount that the presence of snow where they stood, and this of light, didn't she stand your would bring about a enabled them to receive man at the door leading to the softening in weather enough air to survive until kitchen. As she finished conditions resulting in the help, which often took days, sewing the last button she thaw. arrived. reached out, plucked an On the following morning Overnight the whole icicle from the eve of the all hopes of improvement landscape had taken on a sort house and thrust it down the were dashed as a fierce of Antartic resemblance, as waist of the trousers. The blizzard driven by a biting drifts, some as high as poor fellow let go a yell, and wind swept the whole fourteen feet, stood on her shouted `What's that' as the countryside. The atmosphere with the highest hedgerows. chilly ice slid past his changed to darkness as the The strong wind currents privates, and down the leg of powdery snow whirled about prevailing on the day of the his trousers. in the directions. Roads storm had blown the snow Although the world war become impassable with all into the most beautiful curves had come to an end almost traffic coming to a complete and contours you could ask to two years previously, food standstill. see. I have often since rationing was still being Outlying livestock, which thought, what a study it enforced by the Government had sought shelter alongside would have been for a of the day. Streams of ditches and hedges shivered, modern day artist. The shoppers plodded daily and many suffocated as the following through the snowdrifts en piling snow mounted above sunny days which followed in route to the local town. their heads. The more the wake of the blizzard were Towards nighttime they delicate ones succumbed in turn followed by nights of would return home, carrying because of the freezing severe frost, which turned the on their backs the weekly temperatures. snowdrifts into rock solid rations. The desperate conditions masses that looked like The remains of persons prevailing on the day of glaciers. As a youth, I clearly who died during the storm, February 22nd made it remember walking across and in the week that impossible for most livestock the Owenbeg river on top of a followed, had to be taken to to be accounted for, and even snowdrift, and listening to the Church and local to unlatch the bolt in an iron water gurgling below under cemetary, either by sleigh or gate meant that your hand the ice at a depth of about hand barrow, the latter stuck to the bolt. eight feet. device being a crude 3 construction made up of a sheet of galvanised iron supported by two long joists of timber. The coffin was then mounted on top of this frame, and working in relays of four at mounted on top of this frame, and working in relays LORD EDWARD ST., BALLYMOTE of four at a time, the young men of the area took the WE DESIGN AND PRINT NEWSLETTERS, Sports Programmes, remains of the deceased BOOKS & REPORTS, TYPESETTING Posters, Raffle Tlckets Dance Tickets, AND PHOTOCOPYING person on this makeshift bier, Sponsor Cards, to its final resting place. Invoice Books Let's remember that the Letterheads, blizzard followed in the wake Business Cards of the disastrous harvest of WE SUPPLY TROPHIES, MEDALS AND ALSO 1944, at a time when people PLAQUES FOR ALL SPORTING EVENTS Wedding Stationery were still being compelled to till one fourth of all, their 071-83282 arable lands. In September of that year, the authorities recruited an emergency Labour force to assist farmers in salvaging whaat remained of their weather beaten crops. With the arrival of SR. CONSILIO March fodder for livestock got scarcer and scarcer, as A the prevailing harsh weather tribute to her achievements kept up the increase in appetite. Hay which usually If you mention allowed into the band dido sold at five shillings, now the name of Sr Consilio in occur-there fetched the staggering sum of the immediate ion; we thirty shillings her hundred reponce is `ah she was great, unaware weight (8 stones). she did a lot for the children'. We already r . As one of her proteges I `drm,fs,l,t,d,' and In the end there wasn't endorse the response and a fine rendering of `Seánin o . enough to go around, with the would add much more. Sr an Rothar, aon, dó, trí or `I'm a result that cattle died by the Consilio gave many many little teapot' with actions of score, and in all areas the children the opportunity to course. All we had to do now Burnhouse Service, with it's develop their muisical and was learn a play-yes -The dreaded adour of rotting other talents. Dawning of the Day'. flesh, became a regular In this issue of the `Corran Ater school once and often Visitor, and was to remain so Herald' we are pleased to twice a wek we would `stay for weeks to come. present to our readers an behind' fora band practise. It Amid forecasts, that the account of the tremendous didn't occur to us that Sr. drifts would remain until he work undertaken in Col- Consilio was staying behind arrival of June, the middle of looney over 21 years by the too, after a hard day's March saw a gradual thaw nun from Clifden in . teaching. The notes would be get underway. There were written on the blackboard for grave fears that a rapid thaw BI RTH OF THE BAND us and with tin whistles at the would bring about extensive Sr. Consilio came to ready we would play the flooding, as all rivers and Collooney in 1959 to teach notes as our teacher ponted streams were frozen solid children in their initial three with a long ruler and sang and heavily dammed by the years to schooling. Soon after each note aloud. Then off we packed snow lying on top. her arrival she started to would go armed with our Fortunately, the mild thaw teach music. The old new tune to try it Jut at hoem kept on as, temperatures kept `Clarkes' tin whistle which where it never sounded as rising, and by the first of April was affordable to one and all good as when we had all the first green fields were was the chosen instrument. played together. The coming into sight once more. When we reached first class children who couldn't Daily, in the distance you it was time to go home and succeed witht he tin whistle could hear crashing sounds announce `I have to get a new were provided with triangle of ice boulders, as the rivers tin whistle for the band'. The or tamboureens to play with began to throw. possibility of not being the band. Contd. Page 4 Contd. Page 12 TELEVISION they ever had in the dressing APPEARANCE 'CONSILIO of their daughters, and so a In the 1960's there was a certain pride was involved. programme on Telifis TIME TO MARCH: To complete our uniform we Eireann called 'Seoirse agus When we could play all the wore golden braid around Beartlai'. It was a great marches we joined our our knee-high white socks favourite with children at the betters and this meant we with black shoes completing time because of Beartlai the hid to learn the march in time our attire. dummy and the fact that it and in line. We would march Our big drum was painted was children and young up and down the avenue to with green, white and gold teenagers who performed the convent and the Lord help stripes by Kevin D'Arcy our traditional music, song and anyone who would step out of local artist and the band dance. If ' you hadn't a line. St. Patrick's Day arrived leader carried a Shield which television then you paid a and before second mass was read 'Buionn Ceoil - Cuil visit to a house that had when over we would line up Mhaoile'. The Collooney the programme was due. Sr. outside the girls' school in Girls' band marched through Consilio arranged an audition readiness. At the right Collooney many times for our band to appear on this moment we would start our throughout the year. St. programme. We were parade. The big drum would Patrick's Day, Easter Sunday, accepted and preparations beat out instructionbs, our the Feast of Corpus Christi were made for the occasion. feet would shuffle in when all the newly painted The excitement was im- readiness, the music would houses would have a mense, this would be the first start and off we would go. It beautiful altar placed at their time for most of the children was a wonderful feeling for door. On that parade with our to see . We were to us, smiling at one and all eyes fixed on the altars our leave Collooney in the despite the tin whistles. Sr. lines suffered. Our usual 'middle of the night' a delight Consilio would walk along marches were, replaced by in itself. The entire event was the pavement willing us to suitable hymns for the day. like a dream and over twenty keep in line and to play our 'Collooney Girls' Band' was years later would still be tunes well. versatile as was their teacher, taken for the same except for In later years we went from Sr. Consilio. a single treasured photo our own village parade to join taken from the programme as the big parade in Sligo. SURPRISE PARADE the camera fell upon my face However, this never held the It was late one Sunday barely visible above the same joy as the parade in our evening in the middle of July accordion. own town, where we 1964, the sky was about to recognised all the smiling take on its nightly hue. All FLEADHANNA AND faces and even then was quiet in the village of ANNUAL TREATS recognised the proud look on Collooney. Suddenly outr of Throughout the year we our parents' faces. It is to be the silence came the sound of attended the 'Fleadh' where rembered at this point in our musics. Doors opened, we performed to the best of story that all this was made people appeared from our ability. There was never possible by the hard work of nowhere- What was too much emphasis on the Sr. Consilio. happening? The band came winning of medals. We took After a few years some of into view and instead of the part which was the important us were lucky enough to be customery shield a large aspect. the proud owners of an Silver Cup was held aloft by Before the schools summer accordion. Sr. Consilio taught the leader. Up went the holidays we had a party. Big us to master our new cheers for although no one basins full of trifle, whispered instrument and now when we knew what we were jelly, blancmange were marched we were an celebrating, the air was carefully transported from impressive sight and sount. charged with our delight, our the convent kitchen to the We wore green pleated music was vibrant and the school in readiness and skirts, white blouse with people of the town took our anticipation. green tie. The knotting of the cue and cheered us on. By the Brought up in an era tie frequently created time we reached the end of when we were taught to problems for the girls. The the village, word had gone speak only when spoken to problem was solved if your round that we were the and never to ask for more, we father's neck was narrow 'Connaught Champion sat and waited for our share. enough he would tie the knot Marching Band' of the day. Sr. Soon however with Sr. on himself first, loosen the tie, Consilio was proud and for Consilio's intervention and take it over his head and once marched beside us spirit for the occasion that place it around your neck. For regardless of our step and was in it, our retiring nature many of our fathers this accepted the cheering she so was forgotten and the party would be the first dealings justly deserved. enjoyed to the full. Contd. Page 13 5 The Linen Industry BY TOM McGETTRICK HERITAGE OF OTHER TIMES he went through various manufactures, enquired into the He found about 20 looms, minutiae, and took every measure The extract given below is from a working upon their own account, to know it to the bottom. This he book telling of events in Ballymote and made a considerable progress did, so repeatedly, and with such two hundred and ten years ago. It is in this for five years, raising several attention in the whole progress, a firsthand account of the linen buildings, cottages for the from spinning to bleaching, and industry in the town written by weavers, and was going on as well selling, that he became as through Arthur Young in his book 'A Tour of as the variety of his business would a master of it, as an experienced Ireland'. admit, employing 60 looms. He manager; he has woven linen, and then died, when a staud was made done every part of the business, Arthur Young came to Ballymote with his own hands. in 1776 especially to write about it. to all the works for a year, in which It is a very well told story. That everything went much to ruin. Lady As he determined to have the linen industry has left a heritage Shelburne then employed a new works complete, he took Mr. which today can in many instances manager to carry on the Stansfield, the engineer so well be clearly identified. Mill Street manufacture upon his own account, known for his improved sawmills, and Newtown are names to which giving him profitable grants of into his pay; he sent him over to the extract gives meaning. The lands to encourage him to do it with Ballymoat, in the winter of 1774, in linen mill was at the end of Mill spirit. He continued for five years, order to erect the machinery of a Street. There is still a vague outline employing 60 looms also; but his bleach mill, upon the very best of it there. The millrace and the dam circumstances failing, a fresh stop construct-ion; he went to all the which created the reservoir for the was put to the work. great mills in the north of Ireland to water to drive the mill are still Then it was that Mr. Fitzmaurice, inspect them, to remark their there. The Fitzmaurices, a family in the year 1774, determined to deficiencies, that they might be with various titles, built Earlsfort exert himself in pushing on a improved in the mills he intended House and changed the name of the manufactory, which promised to be to erect. This knowledge being from Carrow-cawley to of such essential service to the gained, the work was begun, and Earlsfield to honour themselves. whole country. To do this with as water was necessary, a great One of them built the Round Tower effect, he saw that it was necessary bason was formed by a dam across on Carrownanty Hill — an imposing to take it intirely into his own hands. a valley, by which means 3¼ acres landmark which some years ago He could lend money to the were floated, to serve as reservoir toppled over and brought some manager to enable him to goon, but for dry seasons, to secure plenty ast local history with it. that would be, at best, hazardous, all times. All the machinery of the and could never do it in the mill is perfectly well constructed, complete manner in which he and worthy of the artist who formed wished to establish it. In the period it; in general it is upon the corn Mr. Young wrote: of consideration, Mr. Fitamaurice principle of other bleach-mills 'Reaching Ballymote in the was advidsed by his friends, never executed in a manner .. evening, the residence of the Hon. to engage in so complex a business superior to any other in Ireland, L Mr. Fitzmaurice, where I expected as a manufacture in which he must in several particulars it is much great pleasure in viewing a of necessity become a merchant; improved; a washing-wheel, on the manufactory, of which I heard much also engage in all the hazard, new construction used in England, since I came to Ireland. He was so irksomness & c. of commerce, so is added; beetlers are improved in kind as to give me the following Fitzmaurice, in the year 1774, their motion on the cylinder, by account of it, in the most liberal determined to exert himself in giving something more of time to manner: pushing on a manufactory, which their rebound; the motion given to 'Twenty years ago the late Lord promised to be of such essential the rubbing boards is in a manner Shelburne came to Ballymoat, a service to the whole country. To do different from the common and in wild uncultiv-ated region, without this with effect, he saw that it was general the wheels are all so industry or civility; and the people necessary to take it intirely into his proportioned, that every operation all Roman Catholics, without an own hands. He could lend money to may go on in the full velocity, atom of a manufacture, not even the manager to enable him to go on, without one part being stopped at spinning. In order to change this but that would be, at best, all upon account of another, which state of things, his Lordship hazardous, and could never do it in is not generally the case; the water- contracted with people in the the complete manner in which he wheel is also formed to work with north, to bring Protestant weavers, wished to establish it. In the period the least quantity of water possible; and establish a manufactory, as the of consideration, Mr. Fitamaurice all the works going on with no only means of making the change was advidsed by his friends, never larger quantity than will flow he wishedd; this was done; but, to engage in so complex a business through a pipe of a 9 inch bore. falling into the hands of rascals, he as a manufacture in which he must Here are two beetling cyclinders, lost £5000 by the business, with of necessity become a merchant; three pair of rubbing boards, a pair only 17 Protestant families, and 26 also engage in all the hazard, of stocks, a washing wheel, two and 27 looms established for it. irksomness & c. of commerce, so large coppers :•)z. boiling or Upon his death, Lady Shelburne totally different from his birth, bucking, a room for drying, and wished to carry his scheme into education, ideas and pursuits; but, another for folding, the whole execution, and to do it, gave much tired with the inactivity of common contained in a well-erected edifice, encouragement to Mr. Wakefield, life, he determined not only to turn 81 feet long by 28 feet broad, and the great Irish factor in London, by manufacturer, but to carry on the 17 high. granting advantageous leases, business in the most spirited and under the contract of building and vigorous manner that was possible. colonizing, by weavers from the In the first place he took every It is hoped to continue the extract north, and carrying oon the manu- means of making himself a in the next issue. factory. compleat master of the business; 6 The account of John Stenson's premature death in the struggle to obtain the land for the people recalls to mind the Land League, formed by Michael Davitt in 1879 at - the hidden monument Irishtown, Co. Mayo. The Land League campaigned Today the village of long and hard to end the Riverstown rests quietly The crowd were ordered landlord system and restore between its two rivers the to go back: 'Desist in the the land to the Irish people. The success of the Land Uncion and the Douglas. On name of the King'. A verbal passing through one could be conflict ensued and stones League was great but one cannot but wonder if Davitt, forgiven for thinking that the were thrown. Suddenly a hot Parnell and others turned in village has always been so. was fired in all directions. However, tucked away in a After a pitched battle lasting their graves the night John field behind the village there for some time the crowd Stenson met his untimely stands a monument which retired across the wall and death. Narrative by Patricia bears witness to former days ran to the safety of their McNally. Appreciation to Mr. of struggle and strife. The homes. Higgins, Headmaster Rivers- following is an account of the Not so however John town National School for historical event which the Stenson. He had received a detailed information. monument recalls. fatal shot during the course of For many months cattle- the gunfire and now lay dead driving had being the upon the soil he wanted to set JOHN STENSON practice in rural districts of free for the use of the people. I He stands alone within the field, Ireland in an effort to obtain The Sligo newspapers of His country free o view, the lard for the use of the the time, 'The Sligo The country that gave birth to him, people. It has been a peaceful Champion' and The Sligo Yes, o him and all he knew. demonstration of the Independent', relate the II people's own need for the inquest which was held in the He stands mute upon his pedestal, land, peaceful until the early Couthouse in Riverstown Yet he will speak aloud, hours of Thursday morning, shortly after the tragedy. The And tell o me, and tell to you October 29th, 1908 when a inquest was conducted by: Of his country he is proud. terrible tragedy occured at Dr. Roe - District Coroner • By Ardkeeran farm in Rivers- Francis Comer - District Patricia McNally town. On this night Inspector R.I.C ., Ballymote. approximately fifty men Mr. H.J. Tully - Solicitor assembled near 'Coopers Sligo appears for the next of FRED FINN Hill' and planned to drive the him Catherine Stenson. The cattle from Ardkeeran farm jury consisted of fifteen men. MEMORIAL the property of Owen Phibbs Dr. Edward K Frazer, G.P. D.L. Amongst the men was 19 Riverstown Dispensary gave A cermony o mark the unveiling of year old John Stenson, a farm evidence on his verdict of the a memorial to noted musician, the labourer and native of cause of death 'Death in my late Fred Finn, will take place at Killaville, on Sway, May 3rd, . He was opinion was caused by 1987. employed by John Miliken of lacceration of the brain. The The programme will include a Rusheen, Riverstown. wound could have been parade of musicians from the ruin of The band of men marched caused by a bullet and the old handball alley, where he evidently the person who played and won so many past the barracks, through competitions in the early years of the school lane and a number fired and the man who was his life, o the site of the memorial, of them crossed the wall that shot were on the same level situated opposite the Church gate led to Ardkeeran farm. On with each other and facing at Killaville. crossing the boundary they each other'. During the I've been informed by a member inquest a local villager of the committee that the response were ordered back by 12 o fund raising for the memorial has R.I.C. men who were lying in offered to give evidence but been fantastic, with subscriptions ambush and standing guard the Coroner refused on the coming in from right across the over the cattle grazing on the grounds that he had not been country, a remarkable tribute farm. Among the R.I.C. men summoned to do so. The indeed o the memory of an extrao- jury's verdict found that the rdinary man. were Headd COnstable It is expected that a large number Donovan and Sergeant deceased man came by his of musicians, and Fred Finn Patrick McHugh who was death by lacerration of the admirers from over a wide area, stationed at Riverstown with brain caused by a bullet will be in attendance at the Constable McNamara. wound. cermony. Contd. Page 11 The Courthouse Ballymote In 1899 this building was the scene of a dramatic political event. in January of that year the Grand Jury system was abolished and in its place County and District Councils were to be elected. For the purpose of selecting candidates. the Mayor of Sligo and M.P. for the Courthouse summoned a convent- ion at Ballymote. the Courthouse was the only building in town suitable for such a gathering, but the day before the convention the following telegram was sent to the caretaker. Jackson Hawksby, by the Sub Sheriff. Colonel Coffey:- " January 11th, 1899 - Mayor McHugh cannot have Courthouse to-morrow"

When McHugh and his followers arrived he found the doors barred and locked. He demanded admission in ten minutes; after consulting with the District Inspector of the R.I.C. Hawksby returned with a refusal. McHugh turned to the local League Secret- ary and said: John Gilmartin. get me a sledge hammer - I am not going to ask you to do anything I would not do myself". In a short time Gilmartin returned with the sledge and with a few hefty blows McHugh sent the doors flying off their hinges, the party trooped into the building and transacted their business unmolested. James Hannon, J.P. was the first County Councillor selected and afterwards elected for Ballymote area. The District Councilors chosen were:- John Gilmartin. Thomas Gallagher. James Kane. James Cunnane and Matthew Hannon. McHugh's action caused a great sensation both in this countru and elsewhere, being featured in the Paris newspaper "Le Temps'- A local poet made a "New Hit" .and gave us a ballad of which I quote the opening verse and cho "To a Courthouse not remote, Well it's christened Ballymote. Now myraids of good men gathered there, Up from Sligo. Screen and Curry, Leagu ers hastened in a hurry, But the cream of all dandies was the mayor".

Bat J. Keaney Comdt:. (rtd). BALLYMOTE TENNIS CLUB 1918

The Corran Herald would be most grateful for information. to At.) p iden- tify members of the club included in this picture.

The Changing Times. BY ELIZABETH MURRAY

Young Ireland has the fastest We would need a new legal system The introduction of high growing society in the EEC. The that would impose jail sentences of technology into today's workplace present generation were born in 20 - 30 years for violent robbery. is a world wide indication that we the thriving late sixties. At that Statistics have shown that will never return to full time, to quote from Rita Childer's sociology cannot deal with crime employment again. The alternative 'Woman's Liberation in Ireland', — take Spike Island and the kid is part-time work or else a shorter Irish women were liberated for the glove treatment. working week. It is possible to first time in history, with running Ireland has become industrial- achieve fulfilment in self- water in the home, modern ised, urbanised and commercial- employment. More consideration electrical equipment, higher living ised in the last ten years due to should be given to natural standards, subsidies for better foreign enterprise. The silicon chip producers. The pattern of life must housing conditions. and computer have replaced the change by generating home Family social reforem changed work force, Robots assemble cars, products, using local raw materials the generation gap. There are and so forth. People resort to the rather than importing them to numerous examples of this, such as dangers of the black economy to create employment. The World laws passed relating to domicile, survive, the Demon Dialer takes War 2 period showed the necessity marital problems, discrimination, over and fraudulence breaks the of recycling waste products. This married women's careers, third codes in industry where multi- would save the country £½ m. level education, free health nationalists get out and wreck the annually. schemes, promotion in the arts, and economy. The future generation There is a rewarding aspect to many free handouts. cannot depend on employment creative work-sharing. Productive Then came the recession and agencies for jobs when here is a work can be anything we do in the with it our present crime wave. bureaucratically controlled system home which might contribute to the Outlawing is the order of the day. penalised by government tax. economy of the country Mullaghmore THE SEANCHAÍ Bat J. Keaney (Great top or Summit) I wander the byways, walk every road, Although I am old I carry no load. The village of Mullaghmore, a grandson. He became Baron If at your house by chance, I should fishing and seaside resort on Mount Temple in 1880. On his stay, the most northerly point of death, reputed to result from Let me lie in the barn, sleep on the , owes its origin a lice-plague and malnutrit- hay, to Lord Palmerstown who ion. The property with By the fireside sit, with something was responsible for the Classie-Bawn Castle passed to eat, construction of a harbour A small piece of bread, a morsel of to his nephew, the Hon. meat. around which the village Evelyn Ashley and from him I am a Seanachai, a teller of tales, grew up. After the Cromwel- to his grandughter Edwina, Tell of the animals, of people and lian rape of this country, a wife of Lord Louis Mount- whales. belt of land five miles deep batton. She died in 1960 and All children to me quickly do run, along the coast line from Classie-Bawn passesd to her Listen so quietly till my stories are Mullaghmore to Limerick husband Lord Louise done. was reserved and parcelled Mountbatton. Many the stories that I have to tell, out to disbanded Cromwel- Though old my voice is as clear as a lian Officers and adventurers bell. who had contributed money I tell the fairies and leprechaun kings, to the campaign. They could The mouse as it runs, the bird as it be relied on to guard the sings. coast for the Saxon. Later the Of Kings long ago, when the years whole of County Sligo came they were old, under this plantation scheme, Went into battle, wearing armour of with the exception of gold, , which was One day I will walk to my heaven considered poor land. Even on high, planters already settled People will say did the Seanchai under earlier grants had to be die, re-affirmed under the Please don't gieve now that the Seanchai's gone, Cromwellian settlement To the people of Ireland my stories scheme. The Palmerstown belong. parcel extended for about six miles from Mullaghmore By The Flintstones towards Lissadell and was about two miles in width. Lord Palmerstown appears to have been generally fair to his tenants and did much to WHAT DR. A. DUNLEAVY (BALLYMOTE) improve their condition. He was involved, however, in a SAID IN 1740 very heated dispute with the It is no wonder then that a language of neither Court nor City 'tor Bar nor Business ever since the beginning of James I reign Catholic Clergy over trying should have suffered vast alterations and corruptions and be now to force on them a position on the brink of utter decay, as it really is to the great dishonour and shame of the natives who shall always pass everywhere for whereby Catholic children Irishmen although [rishmen without Irish is an incongruity and a would be compelled to great bull. Besides the Irish language is undeniably a very ancient Mother Language and one of the smoothest in Europe. no way attend Protestand schools in abounding with monasyllables. nor clogged with rugged consonants the area. which make a harsh sound that grates upon the ear- . . What discredit then must it 'be to the whole nation to let such a language This was eventually solved go to wrack. by the provision of seperate Catholic schools. Afterward From "The Elements of the Irish Language." Parts. 1742. the Palmerstowns appear to PIONEERS OF 1894 have recognised the rights of The Parish can hardly boast to-day as it did in the days •)f their catholic tenants and six active football tennis- There were at least two of them which often brought victory to the Parish in the County Championships workers. Lord Palmerstown played in the field at Carrownanty. now the site of the Cemetery died in 1865 and the property of St- Columba. Little did many of the players dream that the scene of their many glories would one day offer them a last resting passed to his Grandson. He place. Looking. however, through a victorious Round Tower team became Baron Mount Temple of 1894 one is still able to congratulate many an old resident in the parish in enjoying a hale and heart y life. J Chambers (captain). in 1880. On his death, M- Doohill, P. Reynolds. B. Henry, M. McGuinness, J- McGuinness reputed to result from a lice- B. Healy, W. Parkes, J. J- Henry. D. McKeown J- Hannon. J- Mooney. plague and malnutrition, the M- Rogers, M. Dunne.. J. McNiffe. J. O'Connor- property passed to his McDonagh's "Ballymote and the Parish of Emlaghfad." 1936. 10

The Park — - EARL SFIELD Changing

CONTINUED Much of Ireland's history is centred round the ruins of its monasteries and castles, and many of our country's place names could be used as a caption to a chapter of stirring events- What From page 4 memories the name Baile an Mhota, the Town of the Moated Castle. would recall to one who could have lived clown the centuries in its It shadow from t he time De Burgo. the Red Earl whom Bruce later stimulates the mind. It adds to the defeated at Baile Muine, laid the first stone of the Castle to the days when its last inhabitants, the 'Taaffes, abandoned it to the parasitic quality of life and satisfaction, ivy to be a sanctuary for the birds. • which restores a healthy relationship in the community. And within hailing distance of those old walls are the lands The greatest change has come of Earlsfield, where the Park we bless to-day is Why Earlsfield? That is a question which has a story as answer. We had the Red about in the public sector. Today Earl mentioned above in 1300, and three centuries later O'Donnell. the rat race is on. People tend to again red, Earl of Tirconnell, and again, almost a century and a half see themselves as earning their later, the Fitzmaurices, Earls of Orkney and Kirkwall, red in their dignity rather than realising that it association with the Protestant ascendancy of the time. All these took a hand in making Ballymote's history, but the last mentioned should come from within is the family with which our story deals. themselves, irrespective of what they may achieve through power or In those days land was parcelled out in quarters and f rom the wealth. This is very evident also in area whlch, as far as I can gather, was called Carrowcawley, Cawley's Quarter, one Fitzmaurlce, through confiscatlon, obtained wlde the field of sport, where there is territory round the present Convent of Mercy. High up here lie much commercial and political built his home, now the Convent, where he could keep watch over exploitation. If any sector of the his broad acres and his flax mills and millers from the North in the community suffers from a sense of lower regions of Mill Street and what is often called Newtown. denial, their status in life may be It has come down in total history that this industrious Earl attributed to the educational caused stones to be removed from the precincts of the old Franciscan system of the past, not to any fault of ruins nearby to build his mansion. Fr. Dunleavy of Ballymote, nephew of the more famous Dr- A. Dunleavy of Catechism fame and their won. an illustrious son of the parish, remonstrated, but to no avail. The present change in social "These stories will revert to a consecrated home," he said quietly attitudes is due to the worldwide and left it at that. To his new home the Earl gave the name influence of television and the Earlsfield. other Media of Communication, Now follows a geographical, historical pot pourri relating to the and results in a change of lifestyles. area for much of which tradition is the author, but it can, in some Today traditional values are hard to cases, be assisted by certain present-day indications of its truth- find. The old road at the upper or Convent end of the Park was once an The family unit can be lost in a important outlet from the town leading in the direction of Sligo, the continuation of which was the Old Sligo Road further. down permissive society. Little or no which everybody knows- This road. some few hundred yards below provision is made for extended the Park, passed by the home of Bishop Brett, one time Bishop of families based on loyalty. Some Killala and later of Elphin. Old ruins, and a large coach-house like people no longer regard their structure, still stand among the ancient beeches there. Carolan the parents as important. Physical Bard was a frequent visitor at the Brett home. This old road caul be traced for some distance. If the contention that the Castle and expression is very evident today, the present Catholic Church were built on what was once the bed but I would like to think that the of a river, and that the area running north from that along by the lack of Christian values and ethics railway was once a marsh, it does not appear that the road to Sligo could run where it now does- is representative only of a minority. One cannot but notice the decline Earlsfield, with most of the lands around Ballymote, has gone in religious practices. Religion is a into the State records as the Gore-Booth estate because that great cultural identity that we should be Lissadell family acquired the rents when the Earl, and his projects, too, passed away. The Gethings became the owners of Earlsfield and proud of regardless of race or retained it down to modern times: Captain Gethings was captain creed. There's great interest in of the Ballymote Militia. The late Dean Connington purchased the transcendental meditation. Some house and grounds for the nuns, who then resided at Castle Lodge, engage in Charismatic movements, thus fulfilling Fr- Dunleavy's words- The lands of Earlsfield wens back in divisions to the people- The late '1'. H. Canon Qulnn, P.P., others in Yoga, and so forth. These became the owner of the Park lands from Miss Ward of 'Teeling can sometimes be very rewarding. Street, and on his death it was sold by his legatee to a representative There is a great danger that committee to become our long wished for Park. Ireland could be left with an aged That is the past, a long period in short, a period when coercion, population in the years to come. Oppression and persecution pulled down and built up. We of this Emigration is here again. We are an historic capital of Corran must continue its story into the future. English speaking nation in the EEC. Our aim to-clay is to give to our town and county a Park in name We have inherited Irish (Gaelic) as and nature. To achieve our ends we have but one weapon, co- operation, and the glory of our achievement will be, with God's heíp, our first language and for people not an arena worthy to the eye so much as one where manliness, from into an Irish free state it is a healthy exercise, and t raditional culture will thrive to form characters sad day that we do not sing our moulded for the glory of Cod and Ireland. National Anthem in Gaelic. T. I'. McG. Last but not least, we owe so much to the young people of today for their participation in Community Welfare activities. Without charity you cannot enter Extract taken from Programme the kingdom'. Surely the £50 m. Live Aid event should be a flash of Ballymote Park 1949 light into the dark corners of the earth and should be seen to go down in history. Where was Weather permitting it is hoped o `Gluinaraght have a covered platform erected in the Church grounds, where persons from the music world can or St. Attracta's assemble, and guided by á capable M.C., old and new alike. • Knees?' The ring of the fiddle and sound of the flute will not sould peculiar in In Vol 18 (pp. 10-11) of the J.C. the Church grounds, for back in the McDonagh Manuscript written sixties the late Fr. James O'Hara, about 1933 and now in Sligo then County Chairman of C.C.E., County Library, there is mention, held some very successful drawing and a photograph, of a site feiseanna there. Young musicians called 'Gluinaraght or St. Attracta's aged 18 years and under will have Knees' at which there appears to be a chance o compete for the Fred a slab bearing a very simple cross Finn cup, a perpetual challenge, and two bullaun depressions. trophy, sponsored by the The text is as follows: committee and presently on 'It is known locally as the Saint's display at the home of Mrs. Rose House but it is really a low stone Finn. wall surrounding a flat rock which has two saucer-like impressions and a cross made by the intersection of two fissures. The indentations are believed to have been the imprint of St. Attracta's knees and are very regular in their make. 'This place appears to be still frequented by pilgrims for I found coins and beads, etc. in various parts of the enclosure but local residents appear to be very reticient about the stations, if any performed. 'Gluinaraght is the name applied to the little stone enclosure in the townland of Tawnawealon near Brishliev on the Curlew mountains. According to one old resident it lay quite close to one of the roads of Primitive times which crossed the Curlews and ran through the western part of the range ...'. As the manuscript is not clear on the actual location of the site other than that it is on the Curlew Mountains, probably in the townland of - Tawnalion or Tawnailealon, its precise location has not been established despite intensive field-work in the approximate area; there appears to be no local recollection of the place. If the stone is as McDonagh describes it, then it can be compared with a stone in front of the "ancient altar at Toomour near Keash which has three bullaun depress-ions and three crosses cut in it. Bullaun stones are thought to have been used for crushing metal ore in advance of smelting on Early Monastic sites. The cross as drawn by McDonagh is simple and can be compared with crosses at Tumour and Carrowtemple. The discovery of the stone would establish the where-abouts of yet another Early Christian enclosure, another part of our heritage. Anyone aware of its whereabouts should contact the present writer who lives in Keash. 12 This couple also kept a dog present day generation called Hitler which they had would, I'm afraid, be caught During the second week of gotten as a puppy at the time napping and the effect on April, with traces of snow still of the outbreak of world war livestock would certainly be remaining on headlands and two. The wise old collie phenomenal. along forces, ploughman sitting by the fireside, would Many of the people who with their teams of horses whinge and whine when (his were around during the could be seen ploughing in master, played his favourite blizzard had experienced the fields. tunes. Passers by on the hardship brought about by Mother nature now roadway situated a couple of the emergency regulations, relented and come to the hundred yards away, told me resulting from two world rescue of starving livestock afterwards that they had wars, and you had those who by sending on an early often stood in the freezing had seen active service on growth, which took large cold, listening to the tunes of the battlefields of Europe. numbers of them from deaths Michael Coleman, coming Some had been through the door. across from the direction of war of independence, the People who were around at the little thatched house. It civil war and more recently the time will agree that the was, I suppose one way of the economic war. They blizzard with its harsh whiling away the dreary were, so to speak, a race consequences, was a nights which followed days tempered by enduring never-to-be forgotten experience. of endless drudgery, brought hardship, and the blizzard Being a teenagert then, I about by the storm. was for them, just another stiff remember a few of us boys Let's, for a moment, handle which had to be visiting at nigh time in the imagine what the conse- overcome. house of a middle aged quences would be, if say, What are the chances of a couple who lived nearby. today we were faced with a similar storm blowing up They owned a very old similar situation. There is no again? Well, weather experts gramophone, and every othe doubt about it but the volume maintain that the likelyhood night, the man of the house of disruption would be of a repeat performance would get the instrument out enormous. True, we have got taking place in the near to play some records. The more efficient ways of future, is a rare possibility kitchen door was usually left disposing of road blockages, indeed. open, to prevent smoke that and other congestion The blizzard was, it seems, rose from the big turf fire resulting from snowstorms, just one of those rare blazing on the hearth, from but what about our public occurences which came puffing down the chimney. services upon which we have about when the forces of The gramophone was become almost totally nature run riot, and as a result placed on a table with its dependent? There is a grave we got what was tantamount large Coke-shaped amplifier risk that they would become to a real taste of Siberian facing towards the doorway. totally paralysed. weather. Where are they now?

PUPILS & TEACHERS OF COLAISTE MUIRE, BALLYMOTE 1957. SR. CONSILIO GOES BUT Sr. Consilio Collooney one cold Decem- LEAVES A TRAIL ber night. I stopped at a shop Sr. Consilio left Collooney to buy something. When I got • in 1980 after 21 years of U; annual outing was the out of the car I heard Carol only opportunity for many of service to the community. singers and when I looked Collooney's loss was surely the children to see that part of there was , Sr. Consilio Ireland 'outside to Col- Swinford's gain. However, conducting, her band of there remained in Collooney looney'. Sr. Consilio gave us musicians and singers. 1 our first sight of Galway and a record of work well done stood silent, thrilled with my which to thid day and for its Cathedral, the Twelve good fortune, and listened Pins, the Winding Roads of many years to come will with delight for Sr. Consilio remain as a living monument Connemara that lead to whose work with the Clifden, the home of Padraic to her. children I was well aware of The music that was taught Pearse. On another trip we would never consent to my were taken to Dublin to see within the confines Of the request to hear her band, let single classroom has brought 'The Greaest Story Ever Told' alone to see her conducting in on the cinema scope. pleasure to many, comfort to her own inimitable way. 1 others and in this present day waited until the carol was CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES of unemployment, the finished, then clapped and prospect of work for those The approach of Christmas said 'Well done Consilio'. who wish to teach and ensure meant preparation for the Well she turned around like a the survival of our great concert and carol singing. flash, her hands went up to heritage- The concerts were full of her face and she said 'Good Sr- Consilio and her like are variety; drama, music, song Lord Michéal, what on earth the strongholds of our society and dance. We performed are you doing here?' That tale and an example to all who Goldilock & the Three Bears reminded me somehow of the might feel the efforts of one in full costume. I have often onerous task which Sr. person to be inufficient or wondered since how Sr. Consilio took upon herself, insignificant- Consilio managed to obtain her success was as great as NARRATIVE BY the costumes for us, the her humility. PATRICIA McNALLY children of Collooney. Other The occupants of Nazareth acts included the 'Maypole', House and Cregg House `Black & White Minstrel were also visited each Show', 'The Tinker's Christmas and we would play Wedding', and one which has and sing and they loved to a great success 'Phil the join in. PORTERS Fluter's Ball'. The amount of effort and work involved in THE CHOIR putting on a full concert can As well as teacher of only be understood by drama, music and the arts, Sr. Proprietors: anyone who may have Consilio was also respons- Michael & Patricia undertaken such a project. ible for the tuition of the Despite the cold December chioir. In those days we could Hurley nights when hands were cold sing the entire mass in Latin. in kid gloves let alone when Irish and English. Funeral required to play the days in Collooney meant an accordion uncovered, we hour off school to sing the Newsagents, spent many hours carol 'Requiem Mass'. Christmas, singing. We travelled to Easter, October and May had Confectionery, , Ballisodare, devotions besides the normal Ballinacarrow and Lisanee- services Sr. Consilio Tobaconist, nagh and we always well provided the congregation Stationery & Toys. accepted. We, of course, with a worthy choir. favoured the heat of the pubs Provision was made for the O'CONNELL STREET, we visited and often we gave occasions when she would BALLYMOTE. PH. 83185 the occupants a few reels and be away- The organ was jigs much to their delight. always made available to The Corran Herald welcomes Recently whilst in Dublin I whomever could play it. Michael and Patricia to Bally- spoke of Sr. Consilio to Every opportunity was mote and wishes them every Micheal 0' hEidhin the given to nurture our musical success with their business- schools' music inspector and ability in every aspect. Also a long and happy retire- smiling he called to mind an Talents that may have ment to Jimmy and Margaret episode I would like to relate: remained dormant for many Porter. 'I was passing through were brought to the surface.

14 In the Great Strike of 1913 she organised the food The Rebel Countess kitchensD in Liberty Hall and TINUE CON thereby enshrined herself in It was not until the the hearts of the poor of excitement abated somewhat Certainly her own course Dublin. It was as a member of that it was noticed that the was one of action through the Citizen Army that she rider was not wearing her membership of Inghinidhe- took part in the Rising of riding skirt. Suddenly na-hEireann, the founding of 1916. And it was because of somebody pointed it out Fianna Eireann and finally her markmanship with a rifle flying gallantly in the strong membership of the Irish that she was appointed breeze from the inside post Citizen Army. Second in Command of the on the last bank, where the Most rebels are made College of Surgeons. History race was lost and won. Only a rebels by the poverty and records her success in that prophet, that day, could have conditions in which they are role and her supreme forseen the symbolism of the reared. Constance Gore courage in the final hours dark green skirt flying from a Booth was born on one of the before Pearse's surrender flag pole at Claragh. The skirt largest estates and into one of ordered the laying down of belonged to Constance Gore the most affluent families in arms. It also records a high Booth who as Madame de the West of Ireland. Her standard of obedience to Markievicz changed the dark whole upbringing prepared authority, her unfailing good green skirt for the dark green her for a life of leisure and humour and sense of fun. uniform of the heron of Easter luxury. But like her sister Eva, As a young girl whe won a week. the poetess, she abandoned bet from a visiting judge by At that time it was all to dedicate her life to the impersonating a woman of impossible to foresee that the service of the poor. The the roads; as the heroine of heroine of the hunting field Republic she wanted was Easter Week. she dispersed and the toast of London and Connolly's Republic. afternoon tea to horrified Paris, would one day become In retrospect it is easy to members of her own class, the national heroine of the see how certain impetuous sitting on upturned boxed, in Great Strike- of 1913 and of mistakes might have been the College of Surgeons, Easter Week 1916. It is avoided. But one must judge where they were temporarily strange that she is remem- her in the context of her time. detained on their way back to bered, today, by many as the And in that context she was Dublin from Fairyhouse. poet described her:- the first woman ever to be In the evenings the soldiers elected to Parliament, later to sang patriotic songs 'The older is condemned to death, become Minister for Labour. including `the Battle Hymn' Pardoned, drags out lonely years, In the Easter Rising she was by the Countess of which she Conspiring among the ignorant'. appointed Second in herself said 'It's not great Command of the College of verse, but it's damn good Nothing, of course, could be Surgeons because of her propaganda'. further from the truth of the markmanship with a rifle and When Pearse surrendered public life and work of the her supreme courage. Still to General Lowe the latter greatest Irishwoman of this later she became the only immediately demanded that century. woman to have a statue in her the Countess be handed over, Although one of the honour erected in Dublin, - which shows the importance outstanding personalities of even if that statue was later the British attached to her. the tiem, teh COuntess side- dishonoured. She too, was condemned to stepped involvement with Such honours do not death but the sentence was the literary movement. It was happen by chance. And commuted to penal servitude only after 1916 that she nobody even won honours for life because the British claimed the attention of more worthily than the feared the outcry the Ireland's greatest poet and Countess or Madame as she execution of a woman would then merely to be immortal- was affectionately known to trigger off. Not since the ised in his verse for the her comrades in arms. execution of Marie Antoinette wrong reasons. He de- A crack shot, she trained during the French Reign of nounced the gazelle he had some of the future fighters of Terror had a woman been met, but obviously not Easter Week in Fianna executed by order of a understood, at Lisadell. Eireann. Con Colbert, one of Government. For this reason Possibly the fact that she the earliest members of the only was Constance denied preferred men of action like Fianna was the youngest her Martyr's Crown. Later Connolly and Larkin to long- executed after Easter Week. when told in prison of the haired poets, even of world Rory O'Connor and Sean executions she cried: `Why repute, contributed to her Heuston were among the didn't they let me die with my denunciation. earliest recruits. friends?' It was in keeping with her refusal to travel in a COLEMANS motor car, after the surrender of the College of Surgeons; 'I shall march at the head of my men as Second in Command CORNER LOUNGE and shall share their fate'. But the latter was denied her. 83475 It is impossible for anyone Ballymote Ph to assess the true character of the Countess before first (Props Jim and Margaret Murphy) reading some, if not all, of her letters from prison. From MUSIC EVERY SATURDAY and SUNDAY Aylesbury Prison, were ALL YEAR ROUND thieves and murderesses Easter were her only company, her letters possess a shining quality that only a person of Sat Cruiscin true nobility, in its wider sense, could have written. It Sun CASTLE CERt Band was during one of her terms in prison that she once again Moun tain As w made history by becoming the first woman ever to be elected a Member of BALLYMOTE 1824 He is honoured throughout our old Pigot and Company City of Parliament. In. 1919 she was Nation, appointed Minister for From the green glens of Antrim to Dublin and Provincial Labour and in writing her Cork; Directory 1824 cont. from page letter of acceptance of the In his youth by enforced emigration CENTRY AND CLERGY office, wrote her own epitaph He arrived on the streets of New Bridgehan Major J. Earlf 'I can give you all my time for York. Durkan Rev. Patrick Ireland's work He played in the great U.S. cities, John, New-br Her death in the public ward Where the Irish are destined to esq. Newpark of a Dublin Hospital and roam, Abbeyville. subsequent lyin in state in To bring to the youngsters and the Rotunda, followed by a kiddies, MERCHANTS' TRADESMEN state funeral completed the Their parent's grand music of home. meteoric career of the happy Professional Gentleman warrior. And the older ones listened in Lougheed Joseph, surgeon. It was a far cry from the day rapture, Shoopkeepers she left her dark green skirt Remembering their long long Cogan Patrick, grocer and ago's; fluttering in the breeze on the linen and wollen draper wind-swept hills of Claragh With thoughts racing back to recapture, Gomley Philip, baker in her native County Sligo. The laughter and tapping of toes. Kerin Bartholomew, grocer McMananamny Peter, grocer For wherever the flute and the fiddle, Innkeepers Bring sadness and joy to the heart; Farquhar William Michael Coleman Here's the turf fire, the cradle and Finn John griddle, Publicans Around which they met at the start. Boland Matthew As we list to the reel being And Killavil you've given full McDonagh Michael embellished. O'Brien Edward On the strings of his violin; measure, We know how the music was Of talent and pleasure the while; cheriched, Our country has learned to treasure, POST OFFICE By the heart of the player within. Great reels in our own Sligo style. Post Master Mr. John Motherwell. The Dublin mail is despatched at For Coleman was a man with a Though the player and his fiddle lie mission, sleeping, ten in the morning, and arrives at From the green glens of Antrim to And his old home's near crumbled four in the afternoon. The Sligo. and gone; , and Collooney mails depart For Coleman was a man with a Our tradition is safe is his keeping, and arrive at the same time with the mission, Coleman's music will always live Dublin mail. Letters from England And a natural talent to play; on. In the lovely unwritten tradition, and Scotland are, sent by the Dublin Preserved on his records today. THOMAS COEN, BELFAST. mail. 16 LETTER TO CASTLE HOTEL THE EDITOR BALLYMOTE Tel : 071-83342 It is very interesting to read the views of four teenagers, as reported in the February CORRAN HERALD. I note that RESTAURANT there is a complaint about the lack of sufficient interests to occupy their leisure hours & LOUNGE BAR (hours expected to increase in the future, due to the lack of employment). Reference was made to St. Joseph's Young OUR GRATITUDE TO LOCAL FIRMS Priests' Society and to the FOR THEIR SUPPORT Society of St. Vincent de Paul. As regards the Young Priests' FREE VIDEO OF YOUR WEDDING Society, it is vital to have a branch in every parish as the IN CONCERT Society helps all youn men aspiring to the priesthood. The FIDDLER'S GREEN St. Vincent de Paul society is a Easter Saturday Night, 18th April worldwide organisation with millions of members. There are FUNCTION ROOM AVAILABLE FOR over 1,000 branches in the 32 . At last years WEDDINGS, PARTIES AGM, 80% of the delegates 21st BIRTHD A Y PARTIES etc. Phone 071-53342 were teenagers. The society is particularly interested in the welfare of teenagers, and we would like to see yet more of them involved in it. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Lord Edward Street, the students of Colaiste Muire and Corran College for their Co. Sligo. successful fund-raising efforts TM: (071) 83135 on our behalf. The Heritage Group was describes as being of no interest to young people. In this SHANE LOFTUS Group we are interested not AREA REPRESENTATIVE only in the past but in the present and the future as well. We wish to preserve and protect our national heritage F.B.D. INSURANCE P.L.C. and transmit it safely to the future - to tomorrow's adults who are today's young people. Our ancient monument and sites, our song, music, stories and language - these are the interest and responsibility of us all. EARLY & LATE LORD EDWARD St. BALLYMOTE STAN CASEY, Ballymote. April, 1987. SWEETS CONFECTIONERY PAPERBACK BOOKS STATIONERY THE CORRAN HERALD CARDS PUBLISHED IN BALLYMOTE EDITOR JAMES FLANAGAN TEAS, COFFEE AND SANDWICHES DESIGNS, TYPESETTING AVAILABLE FROM OUR COFFEE SHOP AND PRINTING BY "FASTPRINT"