Lynch John b circa 1810.
(son of James)
Griffiths valuation of 1852 shows that John & George Lynch have 166 acres of land between them in Glashapullagh, Athea. However, at this time only John has a house and it is of the belief that both families lived in the one house. There is sufficient evidence from the Athea parish records to presume that John and George are brothers and that John is the older of the two. Records from the Athea Parish register indicate that John Lynch married a Maria (Mary) Walsh but it is not known where Mary came from. From the parish records it has been established that John and Mary had at least four sons and one daughter. There could be other family members. They were as follows:
(1) Lynch William b1850.
(2) Lynch Jim b1847. (The Cooper)
(3) Lynch Patrick (Patsy). Born 1848.
(4) Lynch Thomas. Born Sept 2nd 1843.
(5) Lynch Helen. Born Oct 10th 1852.
(1) Lynch William (son of John) married Ellen O’Shea on February 14th 1874, Ellen being the daughter of Jack O’Shea, Ballinagoul, Glin. (see Catherine O’Connell 1858-1938) The witnesses for this marriage were James Lynch and Mary Culhane. (James was the ‘Cooper’, William’s brother) William it seems did a ‘cliamhain isteach’ (married into) to the farm in Ballinamadough, Glin. This farm, like many of the adjoining farms was originally part of the Knight’s domain that were divided among the local tenants who paid rent to the said Knight. The lands are now rent-free. Tom O’Connor lived in the O’Shea cottage in Ballinagoul in later years. William and Ellen had the following family of 6, possibly 7;
(1) Lynch Mary born 28.11.1874.
(2) Lynch Johnny. b1876.
(3) Lynch Paddy b circa 1878.
(4) Lynch Bill b 27.7.1882.
(5) Lynch Bridgie b7.6.1884.
(6) Lynch Katie (1) b21.3.1883.
(7) Lynch Katie (2) b 1888.
(1) Lynch Mary, was born November 28th 1874 her sponsors being James Lynch (probably the ‘Cooper’) & Helen Lynch.(‘coopers’ sister) Mary, who remained single, inherited the family farm in Ballinamadough, which she subsequently sold on to Bill Lynch, Glasha, sometime in the early 1950’s. Bill, who was my uncle, was Mary’s 2nd cousin once removed. Mary died 1957 aged 83 years.
(2) Lynch Johnny who was born Feb 27th, 1876, remained single and lived out his life with his sister Mary in Ballinamadough. He died circa 1944 following a prostrate operation. He was approx 68 yrs of age.
John (Johnny) Lynch above
Ireland Births and Baptisms
| Name | John Lynch | |||
| Gender | Male | |||
| Birth Date | 27 Feb 1876 | |||
| Birthplace | Limerick, Ireland | |||
| Father’s Name | William Lynch | |||
| Father’s Birthplace | Ballynamodough | |||
| Mother’s Name | Ellen Lynch Shea | |||
(3) Lynch Paddy who was born March 23rd, 1878, emigrated to the U.S.
4) Lynch Bill (William) born July 27th 1882 his sponsors being – Robert Hunt & Helen Lynch. (Helen as above) Bill emigrated to the U.S. before 1910. He remained single in life and went to his eternal reward in 1965. He is buried at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, New York with his sister Katie and cousin Thomas Joseph Lynch.
(5) Lynch Bridgie born June 7th 1884 her sponsors being – N.R. (No entry) and Mary Lynch. (Mary was probably Bridgie’s grandmother, Maria) Bridgie emigrated to the U.S. with her sister Katie below. Married John Jack Thomas Evans born Nov 21st 1879 in New York who died sometime before 1954. One child Marjorie Evans born July 25th 1914. and who died c1988. Marjorie married Anthony Compo, date not known. Anthony died of cancer August 1988. They had one child Maryanne E. Compo who became a teacher, born May ? ???? who married Charles Gelso born Feb 7th 1948 in Pittston, Pennsylvania. Charles died May 21st 2000 at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Maryanne currently living in Pennsylvania (May 2012). Maryanne and Charles had one child ‘Living’ Gelso.
WATER STREET PENNSYLVANIA 1908 (By Unknown – Reproduced from an original postcard published by the Harris Photo Post Card Company, Pittston, Pennsylvania Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by User:Pauk using Commons Helper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15219914)
(6) Lynch Katie. Mike Connolly found when looking at the Glin Parish records and at the 1901 census survey it appears that there were two Katie Lynch’s in the family. The first Katie being born March 21st 1883. Her sponsors being – John Connolly & Maria Connolly. She must have died as a child but I can’t see any birth recording for this Katie under the BMD’s from 1864. Lynch Katie born March 18th 1888, Mary Lynch present at the birth, baptised March 27th, at the Immaculate Conception Church, Glin. (13 yrs old in 1901) Emigrated to the U.S on the Oceanic from Queenstown, accompanied by her sister Bridget Lynch who was known to the Wright family as ‘Auntie’ arriving in New York on September 28th, 1910. Married on April 28th, 1918 to her 2nd cousin Thomas Joseph Lynch, son of James Lynch, Glasha. (James was my great-grandfather) After marriage lived at 228 W 4th St. Manhattan. In 1930 living at 1803 Mahan Ave Bronx. and in 1941 living at 344E 176th St. Bronx. Katie died May 10th 1942 (mother’s day) at Fordham Hsp, Bronx from pulmonary tuberculosis. Tom and Katie had the following two children:
i.Thomas Lynch was born March 28th 1919. He got married circa 1940 but sadly his wife died from cancer approximately eight months into the marriage. She was pregnant at the time of her death. I don’t know her name. In 1941 he enlisted as a private in the US Military. Tom re-married in the early 1950’s to Frances T. Tucker, born May 9th 1919 and died October 1975. There was no issue from this marriage. Tom died October 28th 1990.
ii. Ellen Lynch was born on February 7th 1922, died July 2nd 2003 at St. Raphael’s Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut. On May 28th 1941 at St. Margaret Mary’s Rectory, 125 E. 177th St, Bronx she married Jack Allen Wright born July 5th 1918, Dwight, Illinois. Ellen and Jack had three children:
‘Living’ Wright.
‘Living’Wright born March ????, Bronx, New York, worked as an Operating Room Nurse, is now retired and living in Charleston, South Carolina. She remained single in life.
‘Living’ Wright.
‘Living’Wright was born march ????, Bronx, New York and is now a retired electrician living in Durango, Colorado., married Waller from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. family of 1 ‘Living’
‘Living’ Wright.
‘Living’Wright born September ???? in New Haven, Connecticut. Married to Vella, two children – Living
Jack Wright is still alive today living in the U.S. In fact, it was only yesterday; February 7th 2008 that Jack rang my mother at her home in Glasha. I had the privilege of meeting Jack and Ellen back in the summer of 1994 while they were on one of their many visits to the land of their ancestors. (George Langan & Diane Wright)
Left – Ellen Lynch Wright, my mother Delia Langan & Lil Reidy Lynch wife of Bill.
Left – My mother Delia Langan, Ellen Wright on floor, Bill Lynch & Joan Lynch O’Connor my mothers brother and sister. Photo’s 1980’s
Left – Bill Lynch, his wife Lil, my mother, Delia & Ellen Wright at Glasha 1980’s.
Left – Jack Wright, Ellen Wright, Lil Lynch and my mother Delia Langan.
(2) Lynch Jim (The Cooper)
(son of John)
Looking at the Census for 1901 & 1911 it would appear that Jim Lynch who was born in 1859 was married twice, firstly on February 25th 1879 at the Immaculate Conception RC, Glin to a Bridget Culhane, daughter of Maurice ‘Coiner’ Culhane and Ellen Guiney, Ballyguiltenane Lr. Jim’s age given as 20 years. The witnesses were James’s brother William Lynch and Maria Sheehy. Jim Lynch’s second marriage on April 8th 1902 at Athea church was to Johanna Casey, b. 1877, R.I.P March 24th 1953, daughter of Tom Casey a bootmaker from Lr Dirreen, Athea. The witnesses for the wedding were Daniel Scanlon, Dromreask, Glin and Ellie (Nell) Casey who was married to Histon from Dirreen. There was no family from either marriage. Jim’s age given as 48 years and Hannie aged 25 years. Looking at the 1911 census it states therein; James Lynch married to Hannie Lynch for the past 9 yrs. This Hannie was the Johanna Casey, female servant, age 23 as per the 1901 census for the same house. So it seems that Jim’s first wife wasn’t dead no more than a year when he married Hannie Casey. Also present during that 1901 census was a Margaret Costelloe, niece, aged 10yrs. Margaret was the daughter of Bridget’s sister Margaret Culhane who was married to Tom Costelloe, Clounleharde East. Jim Lynch was a cooper by trade and made ‘firkins’ for the local farmers. These ‘firkins’ were used for the storing and conveying of home made butter which the farmers made at the time. The farmers sold the butter locally and at the market towns of Listowel and Newcastlewest. See B.R.J. 1977 p13/14 for an article on the ‘Coopers Shop’, By Paddy Faley.
The ‘Cooper’s’ shop as it is today, photographed 2011.
Johanna Casey was a sister to the shoemaker Paddy Casey. She was known to all and sundry as Hannie Casey. The Casey’s came from Lr. Dirreen otherwise known as ‘Scrathan’. Paddy emigrated to Australia and lived in ‘The Bush’ there for years. He eventually returned home and built for himself a little thatched house in Dromreask at the turn of the road a few hundred yards east of Lynch’s, now Dalton’s. Paddy’s house was known as ‘The Humpy’ due to its size and shape. Apparently, similar shaped houses in the ‘bush’ were referred to as ‘Humpie’s’. That turn of the road is still referred to today as ‘Paddy Casey’s turn’,
‘Paddy Casey’s turn’ ahead – Photo 2011.
Johanna Casey, (Jim Lynch’s wife) had a sister, Mary Casey who married Michael O’Connor R.I.P. August 26th 1950 son of Tom O’Connor. The original O’Connor home was a thatched one and was situated close by the cottage where Michael and Mary lived, the same cottage where Thady O’Sullivan now resides. They had two daughters and one son; Hannah, who married Stephen Moore, Carrickerry, (Moore’s Bar). Mary (Moll), who married Mick Dalton, son of Paddy Dalton, Carrickerry and Mary Woulfe, Glenbawn and Tom O’Connor who died of a heart complaint at the age of 6yrs.
Following the death of her parents Michael and Mary, Moll O’Connor,(pictured 1989 on left with her daughter Mary), came to live with her aunt Hannie Casey Lynch who left her the place. Mick Dalton did a ‘cliamhain isteach’, (married into). Hannie sold provisions of all things necessary for the everyday running of the home. Paddy Faley told me how in the evenings he would make his way down the mountain and across the fields to the shop to purchase a half quarter of Plug or Bendigo tobacco for his father at a price of one shilling and three pence. For his mother he would purchase a half ounce of Clarke’s white cap snuff for five pence and for himself he would have the treat of a few of Geary’s toffee sweets for one penny.
My mother often spoke about the platform that was across the road from Jim Lynch ‘the Cooper’s’. It was in Dan Scanlon’s land, laid down by the stalwart men of Glenagragra. I will quote a line or two from a song written by Paddy Barrett of Turraree in relation to the said platform -;
‘This platform was modelled out in 1928,
By the stalwart men of ‘Gragra’
In Dan Scanlon’s big estate.
It brought there crowds from Newtownsandes,
Killeanemore and Glin,
To tip the light fantastic,
With Dirreen’s athletic men’.
It appears that some bit of jealously developed between the Dirreen and Glenagragra boys resulting in Jack Feury, Glenagragra and Paddy Barrett, Turraree digging up the platform. Hannie Casey almost had a nervous breakdown because of the feud. There was a platform located to the immediate east of Maurice Higgin’s gate thereafter but it did not last long. Jack Higgins made concrete blocks on the site after that. I remember the block making mechanism very well.
(3) Lynch Patrick (Patsy)
(son of John)
(3)Patrick (Patsy)Lynch b. 1848 inherited the home place and on February 3rd 1883 he married Johanna Dalton, Upper Athea, daughter of William Dalton, deceased. The witnesses being George Griffin & Julie Barrett. Johanna was born in 1856. Johanna had a sister Mary Dalton who married John Sheehy, Templeathea East. She had another sister Catherine Dalton who married James Ahern, Knockfinnisk and a brother Tim Dalton who married Ellen Scanlon, Templeathea West. The Scanlon home was located, down a boreen off the Glin road opposite Denny William Mullane’s. Jimmy Dalton lived there in my time. These Dalton’s were related to the Dalton’s of Glasha.
Patsy and Johanna had the following family of 6:
(1) Lynch Mary 1886-.
(2) Lynch Patrick. (Paitin) 1894-.
(3) Lynch Mick 1892-.
(4) Lynch John (Jack) 1885-.
(5) Lynch William (Bill) 1889-.
(6) Lynch James. (Jimeen) 1888-.
(1) Lynch Mary (daughter of Patsy) was born May 23rd 1886. Her sponsors were James Lynch & Brigid Culhane. (The ‘Cooper’ and his wife) On Sept 14th 1911 at Athea church Mary married Maurice Windle, (Son of Michael Windle and grandson of Henry (Harry) Windle Glenagragra.) The witnesses being Michael Lynch, Glasha and Ellie Aherne, Knockfinnisk, Athea, the Rev James Carroll C.C. officiated. Mary and Maurice had a shop in Glenagragra on a piece of ground across from Bill Flavin’s which was later owned by my grandfather, Paddy Langan. We used to call the place the ‘foundation’ as all that was left of the dwelling was its falling down walls and foundations when Paddy took it over. Paddy bought the place from James (Jimeen) Lynch (son of Patsy) for the sum of 10/-. It was said that Paddy made the deal by way of stuffing the 10-shilling note into Jimeen’s breast pocket over a drink one afternoon at Jimmy Collins’s in Athea village. When Mary Lynch married Maurice Windle, her father Patsy gave her a present of part of the family farm along with the ‘foundation’. It stretched from Higgins’s bounds at the east all the way south to the bounds of George Lynch’s bog and northwards to and including the three fields at the rear of Eddie Langan’s at the ‘Glen’, (our place was known as the ‘Glen’ back then) a considerable size of a present indeed. James (Jimeen) Lynch, Mary’s brother subsequently bought back that part of the farm.
Lynch Mary and Windle Maurice had the following family:
Windle Mickeen.
Windle Patin.
Windle Josie.
Windle Mary.
Maurice Windle died circa 1926 and his wife Mary must have died before or shortly after that year as my mother remembered their two daughters, Josie and Mary Windle coming to visit Lynchs’s (Jimeen’s) each summer from Mount St. Vincent Orphanage in Limerick City. Said mother – ‘they were two very attractive girls wearing beautiful clothes’. After leaving the orphanage both sisters emigrated to England. Neither of them married. Mary tragically drowned at a relatively very young age. Her uncle Jimeen brought her home and laid her to rest in Templeathea cemetery. Jim Lynch, Glasha, grandson of Jimeen is of the opinion that Josie finished somewhere in Northern Ireland and died in some home there.
Following the death of their parents, Mickeen Windle and his brother Patin Windle also came to Lynch’s, to work in the farm. ‘’Slaving’’, my mother said. Windle Mickeen was reputed to have been a bit of a browbeater back then and many of the youngsters would run for their lives if they happened to come-upon the said Mickeen. Bill Faley, Paddy’s brother was one who had the misfortune of coming face to face with him on one particular evening whilst on his way home from school and knowing of Mickeen’s reputation Bill naturally enough ran for his life back through Paddy Mike Wallace’s bog.. A couple of days later the two met whilst working in the bog and say’s Mickeen – ‘Wellan, seen that you made such a good run I wont hit you at all this time’. ‘Wellan’ was a word Mickeen would use quite regularly. Mickeen walked the Blaine road to school with Paddy Faley. He also worked in his uncle Patin Lynch’s shop in Athea before emigrating to England where he married a girl from Co. Tipperary and reared a family there. He died in 1987.
Windle Patin went to his uncle Paitin Lynch, Mount David, Shanagolden then later emigrated to England. He remained single and died in his adopted country. (George Langan)
(2) Lynch Patrick (Paitin) b1894
(son of Patsy)
(2) Lynch Patrick (Paitin) was born November 17th 1894, his sponsors being James Lynch & Helena Ahern. (Helena Ahern being the daughter of James Ahern and Catherine Dalton as mentioned heretofore). Paitin emigrated to the U.S. for a while but returned home and opened a shop in Athea village where the Liston family now reside. Pat married Margaret Sheahan, Tullyleague and went to live at Mount David, Shanagolden. Paitin and Margaret had the following family;
(i)Joan Lynch.
Joan married John Mulroy from Co. Mayo. John along with his son and daughter in law and other family members were on board the ill-fated plane Pan Am Flight 103 that was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. Their names a s follows –
John Mulroy, aged 59, East Northport, N.Y.
Sean Kevin Mulroy, aged 25, Lund, Sweden.
Ingrid Elizabeth Mulroy, aged 25, Lund, Sweden
(ii)Margaret Lynch.
(ii)Margaret married Denny Costello, (pictured) son of Tommy Costello, garage owner Main Street, Glin. The marriage was later annulled and Margaret re-married to a Mr. Bridgeman.
(iii)Tessie Lynch
No information to date on Tessie.
(iv)Thomas Lynch.
No information to date on Thomas.
(v)Patrick Lynch.
No information to date on Patrick.
(vi)Philomena Lynch.
No information to date on Philomena.
(vii) Mary Ita Lynch.
Mary Ita Lynch married a Owen Fogarty and went to live at Herbertstown, Co. Limerick. Mary Ita died on May 4th, 1998 aged 71 years. Her husband Owen died on Oct 26th, 2007 aged 86 years. Both are buried in Ballinard graveyard.
(3) Lynch Mick
(3) Lynch Mick (son of Patsy) who was born 1892 emigrated to the U.S. He remained single. Mick always spoke about returning to Ireland but alas, his dream never came through as the arthritis caught up with him rendering him unable to travel. All his nephews from Shanagolden went over to him and he remained with one of them until his death.
(4) Lynch John (Jack)
(4) Lynch John (Jack) (son of Patsy) was born May 15th 1884 his sponsors being Tim Dalton & Julia Dalton. (See William hereunder)
(5) Lynch William (Bill)
(5) Lynch William (Bill) (son of Patsy)was born April 11th 1887 his sponsors being Michael Trant & Catherine McMahon. John (Jack) and William Lynch emigrated to England where they both joined the British army. Private John Lynch was a Rifleman (8375) with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles and was killed in action at the age of 29 yrs on March 11th 1915 He had enlisted in Newry, Co. Down in 1914. He was killed at Neuve Chapel in France and his body was never recovered. He is commerated on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Private William Lynch (4455) was in the 8th Battallion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers. He enlisted in Cork in 1915 and was killed in action in France on May 26th 1916. He is buried in the Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais, France. Both were mortally wounded at the battle of the Somme, France. Documentation in relation to same hereunder:
He whom this scroll commemorates was numbered among those, who at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger and finally passed ‘out of the sight of men’, by the path of duty and self sacrifice giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom. Let those who come after see to it that their names are not forgotten.
Private John Lynch, aged 29 years, died on 26th May 1916.
Private William Lynch, aged 30 years, died on 25th June 1916.
Sons of Patrick and Johanna Lynch, Glasha, Athea, Co. Limerick.
There seems to be a discrepancy regarding the age of John & William. John should be 32 yrs and his brother William 29yrs going by the Athea Parish Records. (George Langan & Mike Connolly)
(6) Lynch James (Jimeen)
(6) Lynch James (Jimeen) R.I.P. February 3rd 1965, (son of Patsy) was born May 16th 1888 his sponsors being Tim Dalton & Maria (Mary) Scanlon. Maria (Mary) Scanlon had a sister Helen Scanlon who married a McMahon, the same McMahon’s as in Catherine McMahon above. Jimeen inherited the family farm, got married to Hannie Grady from Leitrim East, Moyvane and had the following family of 8:
(1) Lynch Jack. R.I.P. November 1992.
(2) Lynch Mary, R.I.P.,March 21st 1996.
(3) Lynch Elizabeth (Lizzy).R.I.P. Nov 9th 2006.
(4) Lynch Nell. R.I.P. March 23rd 1991.
(5) Lynch Kathleen. R.I.P. May 28th 2007.
(6) Lynch Margaret (Peg).
(7) Lynch Josie.
(8) Lynch Paddy died aged 1 & ½ yrs.
Jimeen Lynch
(1) Lynch Jack married Nora Flaherty (sister to Mary Flavin, Glenagragra) from Knockanure and had the following family of 3:
Lynch female Living.
Lynch Male Living.
Lynch Male Living.
Lynch Female married Private O’Connor and lives near Glenquin.
Lynch Male Living, marrid Private O’Sullivan from Ardfert and has one son Lynch Living.
Lynch Male Living is married to a Private from Galway and they live in the U.S.
Left – Athea student Jason Lynch with Richard Bruton Minister for Education. Jason has come first in the world out of over 14,800 students in the Association of Chartered Accountants Business Analysis Exam.
Photo From Athea & district News June 20th 2018
Jason’s great grandfather and my grandfather were 2nd cousins.
Jason with his family – Left Jim Lynch (father) with his mother Bridie 4th from left.
Photo From Athea & district News June 20th 2018
(2) Lynch Mary married Pat ‘Carty’ Enright, R.I.P. 11-02-1991 Dromreask and had the following family of 4;
Enright Private Female.
Enrigh Private Male.
Enright Private Male.
(See also Dalton Family, Glasha.)
(3) Lynch Elizabeth (Lizzy) married Paddy ‘Thade’ O’Sullivan, son of Thade Sullivan, Dirreen and had the following family of 3;
Private Female O’Sullivan.
Private Male O’Sullivan.
Private Male O’Sullivan.
Home of Nell and Ned O’Grady, Photo 2007.
Paddy Thade O’Sullivan had a brother Jack Thade O’Sullivan who died Nov 1967. Jack lived in the home place in Dirreen. Other siblings included – Tim Thade O’Sullivan, Molly Thade O’Sullivan, Gerry Thade O’Sullivan R.I.P. April 27th 1983, Molly and Gerry remained single and lived together on the right hand side up Jimeen Carroll’s Rd, Blaine. Nell married Ned O’Grady and lived in Dromreask just off the Blaine Road. Their home (pictured) was overlooking the Kerryline roadway. Ned O’Grady came from near Ardagh and was a carter from Limerick County Council roads section. There were steps over the ditch from the said Kerryline up the hill to Grady’s. (see caption below)
Steps from Kerryline roadway to Grady’s old homestead . Photo 2007.
More on the O’Sullivan family.
There were two families of the O’Sullivan’s in Dirreen, Tadhg O’Sullivan and Jackie O’Sullivan.
What I know of as follows – ,Tadhg had a son (could have been other children) called Sean Tadhg O’Sullivan and Jackie had a son (could have been other children) called Patsy Jackie O’Sullivan.
Sean Tadhg married Maire Og Liston, Dirreen, Athea. Maire Og was a sister to Padden Liston, Patjoe Liston’s grandfather. Dont know who Maire Og or Padden’s father was. There was a Nicholas Liston and Mary Hanley who had a son named Patrick (Padden) (born circa 1833 ) who seems to be the same person as Padeen. Can’t find a link to Mary Liston (Maire Og) who would have been born around 1830s also. Padden’s wife was Nell Aherne from Kyle. (Kyle explained further on) Padden Liston and Nell Aherne had three sons and two daughters as follows –
i.Margaret (Maggie) Liston, daughter of Patrick Padden Liston who on November 27th, 1897 at Listowel church, aged 31, married Thomas Colohan aged 36, an R.I.C. constable from Knocktagle, the son of Edmond Colohan, deceased, the witnesses being Bartholomew Waters and Annie Liston. Maggie’s address given as Listowel, profession, shopkeeper.
ii.Annie Liston married John McEnery from Tubbertoureen, Moyvane. The marriage took place on February 14th, 1904 at Athea, John aged 37, the son of Denis McEnery, deceased, Annie aged 30, daughter of Patrick Padden Liston, the witnesses being Denis McEnery and Ellon Liston.
iii.Dan Liston emigrated to the U.S.
iv.Tom Liston emigrated to the U.S.
v.Denis (Denny) Liston (Patjoe’s father) settled in the home place and married Maria Hanrahan from Kilbaha, Moyvane. Cant find a marriage cert for Denis, I wonder did they get married in the U.K. or the U.S.? Denny and Maria had three daughters and two sons as follows –
i.Nellie Liston emigrated
ii.Mary Anne Liston emigrated,
iii.Maggie Liston married a Woods from Co. Clare and settled in Kildimo.
iv.John Liston married Pixie Liston in Athea (they lived at Dalton St)
v.Patjoe Liston settled at home and married Bridget Sheahan from Tarbert. They had one son Private Liston who married Private Braddish from Barnigue, Carrickerry and they have five sons.
Nell Ahern (1833-1920) siblings as follows -, Catherine, William, Daniel , Margaret, John & Mary. I believe her mother was Johanne Shine . (George Langan/Gerardine Walsh Chapman)
Sean Tadgh O’Sullivan and Maire Og Liston had three sons and five daughters that I know of as follows –
i.Kate O’ Sullivan emigrated and married Collins from Ballylongford.
ii.Nell O’ Sullivan emigrated.
( We have a Patrick O’Sullivan, Athea, age 40yrs who was a passenger on the Adriatic going to his nephew John Ahern in Conn, June 9th 1911. Patrick paid his own passage out and was in possession of 20$ on his arrival.)
iii.Mary O’Sullivan married William Glasheen on August 30th, 1879, Mary’s age given as 27 yrs and William’s 28 years. William was given as a baker from Athea the son of William Glasheen, deceased publican. They had a son William Glasheen born Dec 8th,1879. Never heard of that name in Athea after that. Mary’s father given as John O’Sullivan, (Sean Tadgh) a farmer, who was alive. The witnesses for the wedding were Patrick Liston and Johanna O’Sullivan.
It seems that Mary and William Glasheen left Athea and settled in Charleville where they had 8 children including the said William. This William who was also a baker, married Anastasia Barry in Charleville and they had a family one of which was also a baker. They also had a son William Glasheen who was a teacher in Limerick and married Josephine Dineen from Limerick , a dressmaker and daughter of a tailor. (George Langan/Gerardine Walsh Chapman)
iv.Bridget O’ Sullivan married Paddy Shanahan, Dirreen as follows – Bridget O’Sullivan, servant, daughter of John O’Sullivan, (Sean Tadgh) farmer, marriage on April 29th, 1899 to Patrick Shanahan, labourer, son of Patrick Shanahan, labourer. The witnesses were Daniel Vaughan and Ellon Liston. The Vaughan’s came from Kyle which was a pet name for that part of Dirreen around where Jackie Mullane lived (Jackie Mullane’s now sold) and where Donal Vaughan lives today. (Feb 2021) In fact the original Vaughan home was where Donal now resides, maybe not the same house but on the same plot of ground anyway. Donal’s sister was married to Paddy Hanlon. Something not right with the Shanahan information, I thought the Shanahan’s were farmers. So I made enquiries and was told the Shanahan’s had no land back then except for about an acre but bought bits and pieces through the years, hence the reason labourer is listed on the marriage and birth certs from that era. However, going back another generation to Cornelius Shanahan he’s listed as being a farmer, see hereunder. (a very small farmer) I have John Shanahan born Aug 14th, 1914 to Paddy and Bridget and Paddy down as a labourer. I have a Patrick Shanahan, widower, son of Cornelius Shanahan, farmer, who on Feb 28th, 1865 at the age of 44yrs married Margaret Kennelly, Dirreen, aged 32 yrs, daughter of Martin Kennelly, Dirreen, can’t make out what profession Martin was. The witnesses were Michael Mulvihill and Thomas McGrath. From what I was told there were no Kennelly’s in Upper Dirreen but they had a farm of land in Lr. Dirreen, across the road from Danny Mulvihill’s cottage on the Glin/Athea road and stretching down at the rear of Patjoe Mullane’s, in between Patjoe’s and Jimmy Brouder’s. Going by the witnesses to Margaret’s wedding, there was a McGrath living down in Lr. Athea quite close to where the Lower Dirreen road intersects with the Lower Athea road. Paddy Hurley in Athea bought the Kennelly farm who in turn sold it on to a son of Edsie Connors, (Edsie and his wife Peg Griffin from Glenagragra had the Post Office in Athea from circa 1969 to 2008). Margaret (Peg) Shanahan died on August 6th, 1922 aged 84 years, her grand-daughter Katie Shanahan present at her death in Dirreen. Patrick died on May 9th, 1898 aged 77 years, his son Patrick Shanahan present at his death in Dirreen.
v.Thade O’ Sullivan married Maige Histon daughter of Jeremiah Histon, Dirreen on Feb 23rd, 1890 at Athea church, the witnesses being Denis (Denny) Liston and Mary Ahern. Denis (Denny) Liston was Patjoe’s father. In fact Denny and Thade were 1 st cousins, Thade’s mother Maire Og being Denny’s aunt. Thade and Maige lived in a sheltered spot in the quarry.
They had four sons and two daughters as follows –
i.Mollie O’Sullivan who remained single.
ii.Nell O’Sullivan who on January 29 th, 1927 married Ned O’Grady, Blaine, the witnesses being Stephen Dalton, Glasha and Margaret Vaughan, Dirreen. Ned was a carter for Limerick County Council roads. They lived at the top of Blaine hill looking down on the Kerryline roadway. Their address was Dromreask. The house was built there by Ned’s father Michael O’Grady who got the site from the Griffin’s of Blaine. The Griffin’s and O’Grady’s were someway related. The O’Grady’s came from over around Glenastar, Ardagh. Nell and Ned had one daughter Mary O’Grady, who married Ken Hayes and they lived outside Limerick city in a place called Boher, out the Tipperary road. Mary was confined to a wheelchair, don’t know what her ailment was.
The four sons as follows –
iii.Jack O’Sullivan.
iv.Tim O’Sullivan.
v.Jerry O’Sullivan remained bachelors.
vi.Paddy O’Sullivan married Lizzie Lynch as referred to earlier.
Jerry and Mollie lived in a little house next to Jimeen Carroll’s of Blaine. Mollie finished up in St. Ita’s Hospital (Home). Newcastle West and was alive in 1989 although into her 90 years by then, but hale and hearty by all accounts. Don’t know when she died. Jack lived in the home place there in the shelter of the quarry; you could see his humble abode from the Athea road. The road through the quarry was frequently used as a short cut by those from Kilbaha and Dirreen going to Athea. There was a large flagstone on the river bed that acted as a way of crossing. It seems there was a very large flood back on August 6th 1922, so strong was the current that it moved the stone, broke it in two and moved it back the river. For years thereafter it was known as the Peg Shanahan flood as Peg died on the night of the flood. (that is Margaret (Peg) as mentioned above)
Thade & Maige Sullivan’s home in the quarry. Their son Jack Thade O’Sullivan liven there in my time.
Photo – Caoimhín Ó Danachair.
vi.Johnny O’ Sullivan who on Sept 19 th, 1905 aged 27 years married Kate Shanahan aged 40 years, from Athea according to marriage cert, daughter of Con Shanahan, shop-keeper, Witnesses to the wedding Michael Ahern and Mary Hunt. Johnny and Kate lived in Athea. (Don’t know where in Athea they lived) The late Paddy Faley said Kate Shanahan was from Newtownsandes. Just found Catherine Shanahan born on April 24 th,1886 at Newtown, daughter of Cornelius Shanahan, shopkeeper, so Paddy Faley was correct.
vii.Patcheen O’ Sullivan remained a bachelor and lived in Newcastle West.
viii.Julie O’Sullivan referred earlier under Patrick (Patsy) Ahern.
Patsy Jackie O’Sullivan married Ellie O’Sullivan from Knocknagorna, Athea and had a son (could have other children) called Tom ‘Tomeen’ O’Sullivan. Tomeen O’Sullivan and his wife were related as follows – Two O’Sullivan women came from Knocknagorna, where Mary B. Sullivan who married Conor Mullane came from. (Mary B. Sullivan as in our generation of the 1950’s) One was Ellie O’Sullivan who came to Dirreen and married Patsy ‘Jackie’ O’Sullivan father of Tomeen O’Sullivan. The other lady was her niece Mary O’Sullivan who married John Dalton of Park, Kilcolman. This John Dalton and Mary had a daughter Nell Dalton who married the said Tomeen O’Sullivan which means Nell Dalton and Tomeen were 1 st cousin once removed. I found the marriage cert for John and Mary as follows – Marriage on February 13th, 1879 at Athea church, John Dalton, Park, Kilcolman aged 30 years, son of William Dalton, a farmer, to Mary O’Sullivan aged 20 years, daughter of Patrick O’Sullivan, Knocknagorna, a farmer. The witnesses were John Morgan and Mary T Sullivan.
Thade O’Sullivan and Tomin were 2nd, cousins, their fathers Sean Tadgh and Patsy ‘Jackie’ were 1 st, cousins.
Tom ‘Tomeen’ Sullivan and Nell Dalton had three daughters Mary, Nell and Peg. Nell and Peg joined the nuns, Nell, Sr. Liam and Peg, Sr. Rossario. Nell, (Sr, Liam) was born in 1917, went to Knocknagorna national school, secondary school in Rathkeale and Presentation Convent in Tuam. Co. Galway before joining the nuns. She died on June 17th, 1981. Peg (Sr. Rosarie) who was born March 23 rd, 1920 and who is still alive today (Feb24th 2020) down in Cork. Peg was dating my uncle Tom Lynch, Glasha prior to taking up her religious vows. Mary then married Martin Dalton from Glasha, Martin from the same avenue and yard where my mother Delia Lynch was born.
Martin Dalton, b. 1909 in Glasha, Athea married Mary O’Sullivan, daughter of Tom ‘Tomeen’ O’Sullivan, Dirreen and Nell Dalton, Park, Kilcolman (Nell R.I.P. March 7 th, 1957 aged 75yrs) in 1941 and had the following family – Paddy, Jimmy and Marian Dalton. Martin did a ‘cliamhain isteach’. (Married into the place) Martin died August 10th, 1983.
(4) Lynch Nell (daughter of James Jimeen) married Denis Hayes, Ballyloughane, Carrickerry and had the following family of 2;
Denis Hayes.
Kathleen Hayes.
(5) Lynch Kathleen (daughter of James Jimeen) married Con (Bob) Higgins, Glasha and went to live in Ferbane, Co. Offaly. They had the following family of 4 -:
Higgins Esther.
Higgins Noreen.
Higgins Maurice.
Higgins Josephine.
Under the 1938 Dept of Irish Folklore, collection Lynch Kathleen submitted a song entitled ‘Fair of Glin’, which she received from Jack ‘Padden’ Mulvihill, age 36yrs, Scart. The folklore exhibition is available at Newcastle West library. Kathleen went to her eternal reward May 28th 2007. (See also Higgins Bob).
(6) Lynch Margaret (Peg) (daughter of James Jimeen) joined the nuns. She was born in 1921 and is currently (Dec2008) a patient in Catherine McAuley’s nursing home in Limerick suffering from arthritis and badly able to walk.
(7) Lynch Josephine (Josie) (daughter of James Jimeen) also joined the nuns. She was born December 26th 1924 and baptised in January 1925. My grandmother Nora Lynch, Glasha and Josie’s uncle Pat Lynch, Shanagolden were her two sponsers. She celebrated her diamond jubilee in 2008. When I asked Josephine where the vocation came from she replied – ‘’We got our vocation in our own home, saying the rosary and a good catholic home, often walked to mass and confession 3 miles. When my father and mother got the horse and trap for us, if they met anyone on the road walking on a Sunday we had to come out of our trap and walk giving the old person a seat in the car. We often prayed for them. There is where we got our vocation.’’
Josephine went on to tell me of her years growing up in Glasha – ‘’I went down to your mother’s house nearly every Sunday. Joan and myself went to school together. We were always together, Tom, Dan, Bill and Joan my sister Kathleen and myself. Together going to school and in the evenings. They came to our house. We had great times eventhough we hadn’t much, not like now.’’
Josie also submitted an article for the 1938 Folklore collection, ‘folklore’ that she received from her father James aged 46yrs.
Paddy Faley, after unexpectingly meeting up with Sr. Josephine & Sr. Margaret at their sister Mary’s home in Dromreask was inspired to compose a poem – ‘Friendship Renewed’. See B.R.J. 1996/1997 p78.
Family Gathering at Lynch’s, Glasha, 1960’s.
Standing From Left – Jimeen Lynch, Mary Lynch Enright, Sr. Josephine Lynch, Hannie Lynch, Denis Hayes, Ballinloughane (Husband of Nell Lynch), Sr. Margaret Lynch (Peg), Paddy Thade Sullivan, Jack Lynch, Kathleen Lynch Higgins, Nell Lynch Hayes, Con ‘Bob’ Higgins, Mary Flavin Flaherty. Front seated from left – John Lynch (son of Jack), Nora Lynch Flaherty, Mick Lynch (Publican, Athea), Jim Lynch,(son of Jack) Hannah Flaherty, (Mother of Mary Flavin & Nora Lynch) Lizzie Lynch O’Sullivan.
Kathleen & Denis Hayes, Ballinloughane.
(Daughter & son of Denis & Nell Lynch Hayes)
The Late Jimeen Lynch R.I.P., Glasha and his late wife
Hannah nee Grady with their two daughters
Sr. Margaret and Sr. Josephine.
Photo early 1960’s.
(4) Tom Lynch
(son of John)
Born Sept 2nd 1843. No information to date on Tom.
(5) Helen (Helena) Lynch.
(daughter of John Lynch & Maria (Mary) Walsh)..
Helen Lynch was born October 10th, 1852. On February 14th 1884 at Athea church, Helen married Michael (Mick) O’Shaughnessy (the ‘Boxer’), Ballyguiltenane Upper, son of John O’Shaughnessy, the witnesses being – Thomas Cregan & Bridget Culhane. In relation to witnesses – Bridget Culhane, daughter of Maurice ‘Coiner’ Culhane and Ellen Guiney, Ballyguiltenane Lr. was married to Helen’s brother Jim ‘The Cooper’ Lynch.
Thomas Cregan witness above – On April 28th, 1883 at Glin church, Thomas Cregan married Mick ‘The Boxer’s sister Ellen (Nell) Shaughnessy, the witnesses being – Denis & Ellen Cregan. They had a son John Cregan (Public House, Magpie Bar), Glin. John in turn had a daughter Mai Cregan who was married to Pakie Geoghegan, Turraree, Pakie married into the Cregan public house in Glin. Pakie & Mai’s son Gerard Geoghegan is the present owner of the public house. (March 25th, 2024, George Langan)
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