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Events and Happenings

  • A Candle In The Window At Christmas

    A Candle In The Window At Christmas

    A lovely Christmas tradition, handed down from ancient times, and still very much alive today
  • A Look At The Local Courts in the 1900s

    A Look At The Local Courts in the 1900s

    Having looked through the local newspaper achieves it is interesting to note the type of cases that kept the local courts busy in the 1900’s.
  • BobbyJo (1990 – 2001) - Putting Mullaghmore on the Racing map

    BobbyJo (1990 – 2001) - Putting Mullaghmore on the Racing map

  • Bonfire Night

    Bonfire Night

    It was a much looked forward to time of year. School holidays were very close at that stage.
  • Charles Hutcheson (Formerly of Ballybaun) and Eilleen Kelly, Windfield

    Charles Hutcheson (Formerly of Ballybaun) and Eilleen Kelly, Windfield

    Engagement Announced
  • Decimalisation - February 15th. 1971

    Decimalisation - February 15th. 1971

    We went from £=s=d to £- p Pounts, Shillings and Pence to Pounds and Pence.
  • Deoch an Dorais

    Deoch an Dorais

    Translates as 'one for the road' or perhaps 'name your poison'
  • Fair Days in the Locality

    Fair Days in the Locality

    Before the Marts we had street fairs where people traded in animals.
  • Fatal Fire Tragedy

    Fatal Fire Tragedy

    Recalling a fire tragedy at a Travelling Community site at Brierfield in 1963
  • Garbally National School

    Garbally National School

    New Extension Opens - 19th October, 2011
  • History of the Internet

    History of the Internet

    Mervin Nutley first introduced me to the bug that is now the internet in March 1993. You did not stay on for long as you had to pay for line usage as if it were a telephone call to Dublin plus a charge per minute to AOL.
  • Hurricane Debbie - September 1961

    Hurricane Debbie - September 1961

    Hurricane Debbie hit this area on Saturday, September 16, 1961
  • I.C.A. For Skehana

    I.C.A. For Skehana

    A Guild of the Irish Countrywoman's Association was formed in Skehana in February 1972
  • Local Emigration In the 1950s and 1960s

    Local Emigration In the 1950s and 1960s

  • Menlough Co-Operative Society AGM - August 1921.

    Menlough Co-Operative Society AGM - August 1921.

    Menlough Co-operative Agricultural and Dairy Society, Ltd.
  • Rural Life and Growing Up in the 1950s and 1960s

    Rural Life and Growing Up in the 1950s and 1960s

    Life was simple, everybody had the same and grass always grew in the middle of most roads !
  • Skehana Annual Holidays 1960s

    Skehana Annual Holidays 1960s

    Skehana Annual Holidays of the 1960s was people arriving home rather than the local people leaving to go on holidays
  • Skehana Branch of N.F.A. set up in 1958

    Skehana Branch of N.F.A. set up in 1958

    Meeting to set up a branch of the IFA in Skehana in 1958
  • Skehana Commemorates 1916

    Skehana Commemorates 1916

    1916 Commemoration Event weekend
  • Skehana Community Centre Re-Construction 1983

    Skehana Community Centre Re-Construction 1983

    The reconstruction of the old school at Garbally into the current Community Centre.
  • Skehana Heritage Week 2016

    Skehana Heritage Week 2016

    Skehana and District Heritage Group presented as their contribution for Heritage Week 2016 an Exhibition of the Houses of the Landed Estates at Skehana Sports Facility on August 21st & 22nd.
  • Strike at Corgary School

    Strike at Corgary School

    Two Children Have Corgary School to Themselves PARENTS ON STRIKE AT MENLOUGH - From the Connach Tribune - June 14th. 1947
  • Success of New Fair at Menlough. (September 1951)

    Success of New Fair at Menlough. (September 1951)

    A report on the first fair held in Menlough on September 7th.1951
  • The C. Y. M. S. Proposed Hall in Skehana

    The C. Y. M. S. Proposed Hall in Skehana

    On Saturday July 29th. 1939 the following advertisement appeared in the Connacht Tribune for a new hall in Skehana
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