GLORIOUS GLENHEST - MEMORIES OF A COMMUNITY
INDEX
Focal Bufochais - Acknowledgements ......................................................................................3
Foreword - Bishop Thomas Finnegan ......................................................................................4
A word from the Parish Priest - Fr Seamus Heverin...................................................................5
Fr. Ted Connolly ......................................................................................................................6
Introduction to Glenhest - Theresa McCormack........................................................................7
Memorial Cross - Joe McDerrnott ............................................................................................8
Townlands and Placenames (O'Donovan's Survey 1838) - Theresa McCormack........................9
Census of Ireland 1901 - Theresa McCormack........................................................................11
Bridgie Clarke (Compiled from an article by her son John) ................................................ 16
Glorious Glenhest (Extract from Mayo News)........................................................................ 18
Glenhest In Times Gone By - Jack Rowland ........................................................................ 19
The Bracklough Road - Noel Marley ................................................................................. 20
Fishing in Beltra Lake - James O'Hora.................................................................................... 21
Fr. Patrick Hegarty (1968 - '74) ...................................................................................... 22
My Days At Cloondaff N.S - Margaret O'Malley..................................................................... 24
Mt. Kilimanjaro - Josephine Gillespie ..................................................................... 25
The Neighbouring School - Joe McDerrnott ...................................................................... 26
From the Hills Around Glenhest to Yorkshires Dales - Mike & Patrick Marley.........................29
MeGowan Family ....................................................................................................... 32
Walking to School - Maureen McNeela................................................................................... 33
Memories - Mary Battle........................................................................................................... 35
The Knights Of The Road - Mike Marley ................................................................................ 38
Judy Flann ..........................................................................................................................38
The Beltra Story (Ger Bracken, extract from Mayo News)........................................................42
Glenhest and Forestry - Tony O'Keefe ................................................................................... 44
Anne Heneghan-Stanley ............................................................................................ 45
1965 A Thainig Me - Sean O Cionfhaola.................................................................................. 46
Mrs. Annie Rogan ......................................................................................................... 49
Cloondaff Post Office - Mamie Marley..................................................................................... 51
School Days in Glenhest - Denis Leonard................................................................................. 54
Glenhest Group Water Scheme - Martin McManamon .............................................................56
My Experiences In Cloondaff National School And After - Sr Francoise Mulhern ................... 57
From Dublin To Glenhest - Pauline McDermott....................................................................... 61
To School In The Glen - Tommie Mulhern ........................................................................62
Glenhest School - Mary Creasey, nee Heneghan...................................................................... 63
The Accordion Man - Jack Harte ............................................................................................ 66
Thanks for the Memories... Cloondaff National School - Fr Eddie Rogan ............................... 68
Anthony Walsh - Connecticut.................................................................................................. 69
Impressions -Sean O Cionfhaola.............................................................................................. 70
Thomas Jordan .............................................................................................................. 71
My Love, She Was Leaving Mayo........................................................................................... 72
The Parents Committee Projects - Margaret McNeela...............................................................73
Growing Up In Glenhest In The 1930's And 40's - Tommy Heneghan ......................................75
First Memories of Glenhest - Una Kirby nee Scanlon ................................................................79
Why. Did You Ever Move To Gleann Oistin ? - Gert Venghaus.................................................80
Pupil Profiles ..................................................................................................................... 81
Waterford to Glenhest - Alice Lally N. T.................................................................................. 87
My Time in Glenhest - Fr John Loftus .................................................................................. 89
Cloondaff National School - Stephen Larkin..............................................................................93
O'Cldirigh and Gortnaheltia - Joe McDermott ...........................................................................94
Captain Patrick Anthony Marley - Patrick Marley, Meath .........................................................95
The Hero Of Glenhest (Words supplied by Sheila Heneghan and Mike Marley) ....................... 96
The Boggy Ambush ..................................................................................................... 96
Ait Ainmneacha Thart Ar Ghleann Oistin................................................................................. 97
Glenhest Community Council 1977 ............................................................................... 101
Glenhest Hall ................................................................................................................... 103
Anthony Callaghan - Mary B. Moran, Niece........................................................................... 103
Glenhest Sports Ground .............................................................................................. 104
A tribute to Fr. Gerry Gillespie - (Extract from Mayo News) ..................................................104
Glenhest Rovers 1974 - 2000 .................................................................................... 105
Sportdays - Declan Marley ......................................................................................... 108
John Forrestal .................................................................................................................. 109
Letters to America................................................................................................................. 111
The Old School ................................................................................................................. 113
The Little School I Know - Siobhan Marley, Cliona McNeela and Sharon McGowan..............113
Our New School.................................................................................................................... 114
My Australian Story - Monica Heneghan................................................................................ 115
1 Went to Cloondaff N.S - Mary O'Malley-Finucane................................................................118
They Were Five Glorious Years - Fr Gerry Gillespie...............................................................119
Archaeology ..................................................................................................................... 124
The Court Caim Tomb in Cloondaff....................................................................................... 125
Mass Rock in Glenhest - Joe McDermott............................................................................... 125
Annagh Graveyard ........................................................................................................126
St. Joseph's Church ........................................................................................................ 127
Cailis Alainn ...................................................................................................................... 128
Glenhest Youth Club: 1975-1996 - Maura Forrestal-Chambers................................................129
Some Folklore ............................................................................................................... 132
Mary Ruane (nee Mulchrone) ............................................................................................... 134
Cloondaff National School - Ronald Devir............................................................................. 135
Family Is Turning Out Tweeds for Tourists (Extract from Times Pictorial Weekly 1950).........140
Glenhest Races 1949 .................................................................................................... 142
The Oil Of Ordination Hardly Dry On My Hands - Fr Gerry O'Hora ........................................144
The late Michael and Hubert J. Staunton - Michael Staunton .......................................146
Moving To Meath - Patrick Marley, Meath ............................................................................148
Sr. Bried Mulhem ......................................................................................................... 151
Mick Lavelle .................................................................................................................... 151
"A Magical World" Experienced by a City Girl - Maureen O'Brien..........................................152
The Inca Trail - Bernadette Gillespie ...................................................................................153
Glenhest Ladies Club/Glenhest Pioneer Group....................................................................... 154
The History Of Lahardane McHales And Glenhest Connections - Toss Gibbons ................... 155
Down the road to Greenwood House - Barbara Madigan-Mayock ..........................................157
My First Visit to Glenhest - Rita Corrigan ............................................................... 158
West Mayo Claims (Newspaper clippings re: Master Kelly).....................................................159
Scoil Naisidnta Chluain Damh .................................................................................. 160
Cluain Damh S.N. - Boird Bhainistiochta............................................................................... 161
Ballytigue - A Migrant's Memory - Bill Mulhern.................................................................... 161
Ploughing - Mike Marley ........................................................................................... 162
Patrick Rogan Writes from the Seychelles.............................................................................. 163
Boithrin na Smaointe - Peryl Coyne .............................................................................. 164
Griffith's Valuation - Researched by Theresa McCormack ......................................................168
A Tribute to Sean O Cionnfhiola - Past Pupils ...................................................................... 174
Did You Know Snippets - Theresa McCormack
The convention used in naming people in photographs is: Back Row to Front Row and Left to Right.