Morgan Enright born circa 1838. Morgan was a blacksmith who had his smithy on the old Tullyleague road close to what is known locally as the ‘limestone cross’. Apparently, the old Tullyleague road went straight on in direction back then just above the said cross at the left-hand bend. Farmers drawing limestone to their limekilns would drop off half their load at the cross before climbing the hill hence how it got the name ‘limestone cross’. This Morgan Enright married Kate Hegarty in 1864 and had a son John Enright born Dec 4th 1864 and possibly had more children.
John Enright married twice – his first wife was Brigid Woods as number (7) above. They had the following two children – Morgan Enright born Sept 10th 1905 and Patrick Enright born March 17th 1907. Brigid Woods died 1907 but we have no record of her death, it could have been during childbirth.
Anyway their son Morgan Enright married Brigid Bourke on July 5th 1931 in St Josephs Church Limerick. Brigid was from Glin the daughter of William Bourke a Blacksmith. William was married twice, one of his wife’s was a girl of the ‘widow’ Culhane’s from Ballyguiltenane, Glin and the other wife was one of the Connell’s, blacksmith’s in Glin town. Morgan worked as a Car Driver with Mick Adams driving the Mail Car Van. They had several children as follows – Billy, Johnny and Morgan and seven daughters – Bridie, Maura, Nora, Anna, Eileen, Margaret and Johanna. The last one in Glin was Johnny Enright known as Johnny Morgan who died Feb 12th 2012 . He lived in Church St and worked at various labouring jobs around Glin including grave digging etc . His funeral was a quiet affair and the bereaved names were not mentioned in the death notice on R.I.P .ie . Billy went to England for a time but returned to Glin where he died almost 20 years ago. Morgan went to England and died there as did Maura. Anna-May married a man from Ballybunion and they are now living in Co. Offaly. Herself and her husband pay a visit to Ballybunion every year and Anna calls to John Barrett, publican in Glin, they are great friends since the time she was living in Glin. Margaret married a man by the name of McKnight and they live in Askeaton, Co. Limerick. Eileen is in England along with her sister Johanna (Josephine) who is the youngest of the family. As far as I know Nora died somewhere in England.
Their other son Patrick Enright married Catherine (Kitty) McMahon from Glenagragra Upper . She was distantly related to him through the Woods/Quill line as follows. Brigid Woods married John McMahon, Glenagragra whose father was also called John. John and Brigid had 3 daughters in family – May McMahon,Catherine (Kitty) McMahon (see next paragraph) & Nancy McMahon.May & Nancy got married on the same day in 1933. May married Paddy Hanrahan from Foynes. Her sister Nancy married her neighbour John Dalton, Glenagragra. John married in there. John & Nancy had two sons John and Jimmy Dalton and two daughters Josie and Mary. John jnr fell victim to the polio outbreak of the 1950’s and went to his eternal reward March 25th 1991 at the age of 44yrs. Josie married Paddy Wilmott in Askeaton. Mary married to a Boyle in Co. Mayo. Jimmy is alive and well today in the home place. John Dalton snr. died in 1974, his wife Nancy died in 1981.
As stated above Patrick Enright married, Catherine (Kitty) McMahon and they had 2 boys namely – John Enright and Patrick Enright, I knew them both. Patrick was a member of the Garda and was a Sgt in the training centre in Templemore when I joined in 1972. We used to draw turf down to John they lived at the east of Glin towards Cahara just off the Mail Road. This was. around the years 1969/1971. Mossie Langan and myself were into the motor bikes back then and i remember Mossie getting a BSA off John.
John Enright’s 2nd wife was Margaret Brandon married on Jan 11th 1908, the daughter of Timmy Brandon a harness maker who lived in a cottage in Kilfergus near Dr. Barrett’s . Margaret was in her late thirties or early forties by then . They had 3 children one of whom died in infancy, the children that survived were Kate Enright born 29 August 1909 and Brigid Enright born 11 Jan 1911.
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