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Killeenadeema
Killeenadeema ( ga, Cillín a Díoma) is a civil parish in County Galway, Ireland. It contains most of the Derrybrien mountains, which hold the Derrybrien Wind Farm. Name The name in Irish is ''Chillín a Díoma'', where ''cillín'' means "little church". Thus, it means "Chapel of Díoma". Location Killeenadeema is in the barony of Loughrea in County Galway, Ireland. The civil parish has an area of . The town of Loughrea lies on the north shore of Lough Rea, a lake. Killeenadeema includes the southern part of Lough Rea and extends south to the border with County Clare. It contains the Derrybrien Wind Farm. The R353 road crosses the southern part of the parish, running through Derrybrien. Adjoining parishes are Ardrahan, Ballynakill (Leitrim barony), Feakle (Clare), Kilchreest, Kilconickny, Killinan, Kilteskill, Kilthomas and Loughrea. Church The corresponding Catholic parish is in the Diocese of Clonfert. The Killeenadeema Graveyard about south of the lake contains the ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kelly (sports Administrator)
Peter Kelly (1847 – 7 April 1908) was president of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in the late 1880s. Kelly was a native of Killeenadeema, Loughrea. He and a number of other men from the area - William J. Duffy, John P. McCarthy, John Sweeney, Loughrea; Michael Glennon, Kilchreest - asked Bishop Patrick Duggan to become the patron of the nascent GAA. Duggan declined citing his poor health, suggesting instead Archbishop Thomas Croke of Cashel. Kelly attended the foundation of the association at Thurles in November 1884. He served as umpire during the Loughrea hurling tournament of 1887, which was attended by over three thousand people. He was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB; ) was a secret oath-bound fraternal organisation dedicated to the establishment of an "independent democratic republic" in Ireland between 1858 and 1924.McGee, p. 15. Its counterpart in the United States .... References 1847 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond MacHugo
Edmond MacHugo (alias MacCoug, MacCook, Cook), Irish Chief of the Name, alive 1559. MacHugo is notable as one of the first certain bearers of the surname MacHugo, and the only attested Chief of the Name. The family being a sept of the Burke family of Clanricarde, County Galway. The family took their name from a Hugh or Hugo Burke, alive sometime in the late 14th century. Edmond was listed as "Chief of his Nation" in a Fiant dated 1570, and resided at Killeenadeema castle, now destroyed. His son Geoffrey MacHugo (''Sheron MacCoug of Killyndyma'', fl. 1570 - 6 October 1605) had issue Ulick, James, Edmond Reagh and William, from whom are descended many bearers of the name MacHugo. Some bearers of the name are buried in the ruined Carmelite abbey of Loughrea. References * ''The Book Of Dead Names'', Adrian James Martyn, Journal of the Genealogical Society of Ireland The Genealogical Society of Ireland ( ga, Cumann Geinealais na hÉireann) is a voluntary non-governmental organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fahy (priest)
John Fahy (8 June 1893 – 19 July 1969) was an Irish priest, republican, agrarian and radical. He is perhaps best known for creating the political party Lia Fáil, a far-right radical agrarian movement and newspaper in which Fahy expressed xenophobic and anti-semitic populist views amongst other views. Lia Fáil made national headlines in the early 1960s after some members were arrested for rural agitation but later escaped jail and went on the run, and Fahy aided and abetted them. Biography Early life Fahy was born in the townland of Burroge, in the parish of Killeenadeema, Loughrea, County Galway. He was one of a number of sons of John Fahy, a strong farmer and fervent member of the Irish National Land League, and Honoria Davock. He was ordained on 28 September 1919, serving in Dundee, Scotland, between 1919 and 1921. He served as the chaplain for a battalion of the Irish Volunteers and involved himself with the Scottish nationalism movement. He supported Terence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Cunningham
Seán Cunningham (1918–1997) was an Irish cooperative activist and Republican. Cunningham was born in Grousehill House, Killeenadeema, Loughrea, the eldest of six children born to Mary-Anne Hynes and Paddy Cunningham. He was a carpenter working in the Loughrea area before moving to Dublin, where he got involved in the Irish Cooperative Movement. He aided the creation of the Borrisokane Co-Op in the 1950s, was associated with Nenagh Co-Op and helped establish its permanent branch in Killimor. He also aided the creation of stations at Ballyshrule, Gort and New Inn. In Loughrea he helped establish the Cooperative Livestock Mart, serving as chairman and a committee member till his death. Cunningham's other passion was politics. His daughter, Veronica, writes that: ''he was a committed Republican. We had many arguments about politics especially in my teens as I generally took completely the opposite political point of view to him. He contested the Galway County Council Electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Cummins
Tony Cummins (6 September 1906 – 20 January 2010) was an Irish priest and centenarian. Cummins was born in Sonnagh townland in the parish of Killeenadeema, Loughrea, one of three sisters and three sons of Patrick Cummins of Duniry and Elizabeth Egan of Clonlee, a primary school teacher. He was educated at Garbally and Maynooth, been ordained by Bishop Duignan at Loughrea in 1932. He served in the parishes of Clostoken Clostoken or Cloghastookeen is a small townland in the civil parish of Kilconickny, near the town of Loughrea in County Galway, Ireland. It takes its name from an old ruined castle. Name According to ''O'Donovan's Field Name Books'' (1862), t ..., Loughrea, Killimor, Killeenadeema, and Cappataggle. He retired from there in 1987. In 2006 he planted a tree with John Kirby, Bishop of Clonfert, to mark his hundredth birthday, at Ballinderry Nursing Home. He died in 2010 aged 103. References * ''Killeenadeema Aille: History and Heritage/Stair agus O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Hardiman (badminton)
Kevin Hardiman is a special Olympian native of Aille, Killeenadeema, Loughrea. Hardiman participated in the 2007 Special Olympics, representing Ireland, playing Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ..., where he won a Bronze medal. References *''Killeenadeema Aille: History and Heritage/Stair agus Oidhreacht'', ed. Pat O'Looney, killeenadeema Historical and Heritage Society, 2009. Irish male badminton players Sportspeople from County Galway Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Irish people {{Ireland-badminton-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilconickny
Kilconickny is a civil parish in the county of Galway, Connaught, Ireland. Location Kilconickny covers . It is mainly within the barony of Dunkellin, but parts are in the baronies of Athenry and Loughrea. It is on the road from Loughrea to Galway, about from Loughrea. There is no bog in the parish. The name in the Irish language is Cill C’nuicne, meaning Conicne's church. The adjoining parishes are Bullaun, Kilchreest, Killeenadeema, Killogilleen, Kiltullagh, Lickerrig and Loughrea. There are graveyards at Bookeen and Tooloobauntemple. Historical Nicholas Carlisle in the 1810 ''Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'' described the parish as: As of 1837 the parish had 2,666 inhabitants. According to Lewis's ''Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'', 1837, The Kilconickny Loan Fund was one of seven Irish Reproductive Loan Funds in County Galway. It was a microcredit plan that provided small loans to the "industrious poor" in the parishes of Kilconierin, Lickerrig, and K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transept
A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In cruciform churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building within the Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architectural traditions. Each half of a transept is known as a semitransept. Description The transept of a church separates the nave from the sanctuary, apse, choir, chevet, presbytery, or chancel. The transepts cross the nave at the crossing, which belongs equally to the main nave axis and to the transept. Upon its four piers, the crossing may support a spire (e.g., Salisbury Cathedral), a central tower (e.g., Gloucester Cathedral) or a crossing dome (e.g., St Paul's Cathedral). Since the altar is usually located at the east end of a church, a transept extends to the north and south. The north and south end walls often hold decorated windows of stained glass, such as rose wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hynes (politician)
John Bernard Hynes (September 22, 1897 – January 6, 1970), was an American politician serving as the Mayor of Boston from 1950 to 1960. Career Hynes began his career at city hall in 1920 as a clerk in the health department. He later transferred to the auditing department and was chief clerk in the Mayor's office during James Michael Curley's 1922 to 1926 term. On January 4, 1926, Hynes became the city's assistant budget commissioner. He earned his high school and college diplomas through evening classes, graduating from Suffolk University Law School in 1927. On June 18, 1929 he was appointed assistant city clerk. In August 1943, Hynes was commissioned a Major in the United States Army. He was discharged that December due to a reoccurrence of a chronic ear issue and returned to the city clerk's office. On September 1, 1945 he became Boston's city clerk. On June 26, 1947, Mayor James Michael Curley was sentenced to six to eighteen months in prison for mail fraud. The city charter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Lewis (publisher)
Samuel Lewis (c. 1782 – 1865) was the editor and publisher of topographical dictionaries and maps of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The aim of the texts was to give in 'a condensed form', a faithful and impartial description of each place. The firm of Samuel Lewis and Co. was based in London. Samuel Lewis the elder died in 1865. His son of the same name predeceased him in 1862. ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'' This work contains every fact of importance tending to illustrate the local history of England. Arranged alphabetically by place (village, parish, town, etc.), it provides a faithful description of all English localities as they existed at the time of first publication (1831), showing exactly where a particular civil parish was located in relation to the nearest town or towns, the barony, county, and province in which it was situated, its principal landowners, the diocese in which it was situated, and—of novel importance—the Roman Cathol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Clarke
Henry Patrick Clarke (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. His work was influenced by both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. His stained glass was particularly informed by the French Symbolist movement. Early life Henry Patrick Clarke was born 17 March 1889, younger son and third child of Joshua Clarke and Brigid (née MacGonigal) Clarke. Joshua Clarke was a church decorator who moved to Dublin from Leeds in 1877 and started a decorating business, Joshua Clarke & Sons, which later incorporated a stained glass division. Through his work with his father, Clarke was exposed to many schools of art but Art Nouveau in particular. Clarke was educated at the Model School in Marlborough Street, Dublin and Belvedere College, which he left in 1905. He was devastated by the death of his mother in 1903, when he was only 14 years old. Clarke was then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apse
In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an '' exedra''. In Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic Christian church (including cathedral and abbey) architecture, the term is applied to a semi-circular or polygonal termination of the main building at the liturgical east end (where the altar is), regardless of the shape of the roof, which may be flat, sloping, domed, or hemispherical. Smaller apses are found elsewhere, especially in shrines. Definition An apse is a semicircular recess, often covered with a hemispherical vault. Commonly, the apse of a church, cathedral or basilica is the semicircular or polygonal termination to the choir or sanctuary, or sometimes at the end of an aisle. Smaller apses are sometimes built in other parts of the church, especially for reliquaries or shrines of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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