Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes Winning Streak Show We were all delighted to hear the name of Pat Rock, Church View being called out for the show next week. Pat sent away the three stubs that spelt word C-A-R and he was…
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Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes Monday 21st September 2015
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes The Green – a living history Death This week we record the death of one of the younger residents of The Green, Ruairi Wyse, no 60. Ruairí suffered a brain hemorrhage at his home and the…
Lanesboro Ballyleague notes Monday 14th September
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes The Green – a living history This week we begin with no. 9 which was the preserve of the O’Neill family from the start. As we all know from Bernie who documented their move from Kenmare…
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes Monday 7th September 2015
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes The Green – a living history This week it is an honour to acknowledge one of the most famous residents of the Green and his achievements and his present achievement that has won him many wonderful…
Lanesboro Ballyleague notes Monday 31st August 2015
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes The Green – a living history For no 8 I am going to need the feedback of those that remember Eugene Morohan. Eugene was a Leitrim man but I have no other information on him or…
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes Monday 24th August 2015
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes The Green – a living history I made an error in my listing of no 3 it was Bernie and Sue Shields that lived in it and not June as previously inadvertently mentioned. Mary O’Halloran (nee…
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes Monday 17th August 201
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes The Green – a living history In number 4 following the Dee family came Ned and Nora Masterson, Ned a Cavan man and Nora from Longford. In their family was Kitty, Nora, Sean, Michael, Eamon, Jimmy,…
Lanesboro Ballyleague notes Monday 10th August 2015
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes The Green – a living history Mary O’Halloran, nee Donoghue no 7, told me of the Christmas time on the Green when Santa Clause would be driven around on a flat back Bord na Mona lorry…
Lanesboro Ballyleague notes Monday 3rd August 2015
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes The Green – a living history In my previous notes on the residents of No 1 I had no names of the families apart from surnames. If anyone can enlighten me as to the names in…
Lanesboro Ballyleague notes Monday 27th July 2015
Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes Birth Many congratulations to Louise Kearney and her husband Kevin Chapman, Lisnacusha on the birth last week of a baby girl. The Green – a living history The families that I have recorded living in…