The Corran Herald Issue 38, 2005
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T HE C ORRAN H ERALD • 2005/2006 Contents Page Ballymote Heritage Weekend . 2 A Postcard from Ballymote . 3 Travel and Transport in Bygone Days . 5 Glaisne Ó Cuilleanáin – Last Abbot of St Mary’s Cistercian Abbey, Boyle . 9 Bog Gazing . 10 Some Recorded Old Place-names of Castledargan . 13 Sligo NFA/IFA Golden Jubilee . 17 Making St. Brigid’s Crosses . 18 The Sacred Heart Altar in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ballymote . 20 Heelin Coos: Scotland’s Favourite Beasts . 22 Very Rev. T. Canon Quinn, P.P. 23 Bellamont House, Collooney, and other 17th Century Fortified Houses in Co. Sligo . 24 Swinford Mercy Order 150th Anniversary . 27 Aghanagh Church of Ireland 150th Anniversary 1855-2005 . 29 Roger Chambers Walker, Sligo Antiquary . 31 Significance of the Brother Walfrid Monument in the 21st Century . 33 Perth Irish honour Ballymote man . 34 Planning a Church . 34 Ballymote Corn Mill (Gorman’s Mill) . 35 Sir John Benson, 1812-1874, Architect and Engineer . 36 Terence O’Rorke, 1819-1907 . 38 Ballymote Public Houses, from 1910 to the Present . 40 An Aughris-type Enclosure on Knocklane, Co. Sligo . 41 Napoleonic Towers in Co. Sligo . 43 Extracts from Freeman’s Journal . 46 Henry Morris . 46 Milk Harbour and its vicinity . 47 Mountains . 50 Joe More, The Landlord of Doocastle . 51 The Irish Folklore Commission Schools Collection . 53 Rural Days Gone By – Pictures from a Vanished Ireland . 54 Had Me Made : A Study of the Grave Memorials of Co. Sligo from c. 1650 to the Present . 55 Ballymote Sports in 1905 . 56 Sporting History: Bunninadden Emmets 1991 . 57 Ballymote Heritage Group 20th AGM . 57 The Arigna Mining Experience . 58 Sri Lanka after the Waves . 61 Patrick McDonagh . 63 Tom Shiels 1908 – 1963 . 64 Sligo v Mayo Boxing 1964 . 65 My Schooldays in the 1960s . 67 Townlands . 68 John M Keaney . 69 The Fair Day in Farnaharpy . 70 Forty Years on in Collooney . 71 Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery . 72 Presentation to Eileen Tighe . 74 Sligo winners in the 51st Texaco Children’s Art Competition . 75 Scouts . 76 1 T HE C ORRAN H ERALD • 2005/2006 Ballymote 16 TH ANNUAL Heritage Weekend FRIDAY 29th JULY to MONDAY 1st AUGUST 2005 IN PASTORAL CENTRE, BALLYMOTE, CO.SLIGO FRIDAY 29th JULY 8.30 p.m. OFFICIAL OPENING Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, Author & Historian LECTURE: The Architecture of Irish Gardens from the Restoration to the Romantic Age – DESMOND FITZGERALD SATURDAY 30th JULY 10.30a.m. OUTING: Charlestown and Swinford areas. To include Michael Davitt Centre, Straide Abbey, Swinford Workhouse and mass grave,rave, and other sites. – GUIDE: MICHAEL MURPHY, HISTORIAN 8.30 p.m. LECTURE: An introduction to Ireland’s Industrial Archaeology. PAUL DUFFY BE, LLB, CENG, FIEI SUNDAY 31st JULY 2.00p.m. OUTING: Tulsk Heritage Centre and adjacent sites; Rathcroghan 8.30p.m. LECTURE: Mullaghfarna, Ireland’s Largest Stone Age Village! DR. STEFAN BERGH, LECTURER, DEPT OF ARCHAEOLOGY, NUI GALWAY. MONDAY 1st AUGUST 10.00 a.m. OUTING: Tuam - Ecclesiastical Capital of Connacht. GUIDE: TONY CLAFFEY MA, PHD 8.30 p.m. LECTURE: From Ireland to Antarctica – 100 years of Shackletons visiting Antarctica. Jonathan Shackleton, Lecturer and Family Historian for the Irish Shackletons. LECTURES: €6.00 TRANSPORT AVAILABLE FOR OUTINGS 2 T HE C ORRAN H ERALD • 2005/2006 A Postcard from Ballymote Aidan Mannion OCTOBER 1st is a very special day in the history of postcards, with the first postcards in the world being produced in Austria on that date in 1869. Exactly one year later, on October 1st 1870, the first postcards were issued by the UK Post Office for England and Ireland. These had stamps pre-printed on them for one half penny, half the letter rate. I illustrate this period with a card sent from the Hibernian Bank, Ballymote, to Stratford-on-Avon, dated 13/9/1876 (first card shown). You will note how business was fast to see the uses of the postcard. A picture was first allowed on cards in 1894. This development can be traced back to the illustrated envelopes of an Irishman, Mulready, in the 1840s. Initially cards were only allowed to have a name and address on one side and the photo on the other (no space for a message). In 1902 the address side of the card was divided in two with a space for a message and another for the address. This format has stayed with us now for over one hundred years. The price and speed of the postcard in the first twenty years of the 20th century led to this period being called "the golden age of postcard collecting". Albums were sold and into these were put cards from family members travelling around the world. In my collection I have two large albums created by a Sligo mother from two wallpaper sample books. She methodically put into these albums the cards sent by her British Army son from all over the world. They varied from cards that were ration tokens during the Boer War to hundreds from field post offices in the First World War. These latter cards were pre-printed Showing both sides of a banking postcard with prepaid stamp, the and because of censorship he could only tick one of earliest form of postcard in Ireland. It was posted on Sep 13th, four greetings and sign his name. 1876 With the great demand for cards, many materials.