File 2 - Fr M D Conroy memoir

1 folder (c. 50 pp)

Photocopy of Fr M D Conroy's memoirs, (January 1943). Fr Conroy was ordained in 1884, and appointed to Leitir Mealláin / Lettermullan and Carraroe, and ordered to build a church in Leitir Mealláin. His memories outline Parish Priests and local churches and schools in the areas from the time of his ordination. It covers Ada Yeats who taught lace making in Croe, evictions and rioting in Croe, Casheen Bay as a safe anchorage for the Duke of Edinburgh when distributing food and clothing to the poor, the arrival of German v-boats there during the first World War. The role of the Comerford family of Kinvara. It covers in detail the division of Killannin into Killannin, Spiddal, and Killeen, and Fr Coyne's objection when Killanin was given to Galway in 1890. Fr Conroy later encountered problems with Fr Coyne's faction, with several confrontations involving a police presence and subsequent trial. Two pages of Robinson's handwritten notes accompany the memoir.

A handwritten note in Tim's writing to say they are a copy of the typescript in possession of Fr M Lang, the Parish Priest at An Cheathrú Rua.

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