Bawnboy and Templeport
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St Mogue's Church
St Mogue's Church, Bawnboy, dedicated and opened 15th August, 1979
69) Just past St. Mogue's Church on our left is the home of the Brady family, Pee Joe (RIP) and Alice, Aidan and Killian. Present in the locality are Teresa and her husband Bob Leonard with their children Shauna, Ciarán and Killian. Two daughters Carmel, USA and Dolores, Cork, are absent. The Brady house was the home of Patrick and Catherine Bannon (née Cox) in the last century. Their family, Hugh, John, Thomas, Mary, Pat (the postman), Philip who reared a family at Fr.Terence's Cross, Kilsallagh, Michael (Clerk of Bawnboy Union) and Katie.
70) Farther down the hill on the left is the Ward home. The Wards have a long connection with Kilsob. Father John Ward was Parish Priest of Templeport 1758-1795, and is buried on St. Mogue's Island. Geraldine runs a nursing home while her sister Chrissie, lives and works in New York. Their father James was a local postman for a very long period and their mother was Mary Smith of Teeboy, who in her time gave comfortable lodgings to many a worker from faraway places. Some people may remember Pat Freyne, P.J. Gillespie, Michael Donovan and Michael Hoban (foresters), Michael Rooney and Jim Clune (creamery managers), Liam Connolly (agricultural officer). And there were many more.
In more recent times Mary Anne Kinsella, Mary Maguire, Mary McGovern, Gretta Leonard and Ann Heery have been looked after by Geraldine and at present, Annie Fitzpatrick, Cortober; Alice McGovern, Drumback; Bridget Smith, Drung; Margaret Corr, Cavan and Teresa Reilly, Owengallees are receiving care and attention.
The Nursing Home Kilsob Left to right:- Alice McGovern, Bridget Smith, Theresa Reilly, Annie Fitzpatric, Margaret Corr and Geraldine Ward (Carer) |
71) Near the bottom of the hill to the left of the road, we come to the site of the Byrnes family home and forge. They are said to have come from Swanlinbar early in the last century. Joseph and Patrick Byrnes were blacksmiths in Swanlinbar in the 1890s, while Peter Byrnes was blacksmith in Kilsob. By 1905 Peter Byrnes was dead and his sons Patrick and James took on the work of the forge. Later on Pat had a forge in Ballyconnell, Tommy worked in the forge with James, and Rose kept house.
72) At the foot of the hill John and Anne Martin, M&S Stores, Swanlinbar, and their young children Cathal, Adrian, Sara and Seán now occupy a new house built by Terry and Evelyn McManus.
Last update: 16 January, 2011 13:39