Passing of a President – Mary E. McKenna – 1920 – 2006
On Wednesday 15th March last, our highly esteemed and much-loved President, Mary E. McKenna of Kilrudden House, Augher, Co. Tyrone, passed to her Eternal Reward, following a lengthy illness, courageously borne. Mary McKenna was born in Dernawilt East, Roslea, on 28th Sept. 1920, the eldest daughter of Owen Prunty and Margaret Connolly. Her family moved […]
The Dancing Deck at Emy Lough
(As related to her grandchild, Mary McCluskey (then aged 11), of Corracrin NS, Emyvale, in a project for ‘Heritage Year’ 1990. Minnie McKenna died in 1993, aged 85 yrs.) Period:- 1928-30, in an era when commercial dance halls, or indeed halls of any kind, were unknown and most travelling was done on foot – dancing […]
Were They Defending McKenna Country
The name of a town-land can tell us quite a bit about a particular area’s history, and the town-lands of ‘McKenna Country’ are unusually interesting in this regard. All of them are derived directly from the Irish and the translations can be most enlightening. Besides the names of trees, which predominate the place-names of both […]
McKenna Childhood Memories
I was born on the 28th September 1920 in Dernawilt East in Roslea Parish, the eldest child of Owen Prunty of Derryvallen and Margaret Connolly of Tannaghaboy. I went to school when I was four and a half years old. I remember the first morning Eileen Connolly (staff) and Maggie Murray (The Road) called to […]
MacKenna Link with Chile
Spring l964 was busier than usual for me. A group of us were endeavouring to acknowledge our local Clogher Valley author, William Carleton, by having a plaque erected on the cottage at Springtown, near Augher, where the author lived during his boyhood years around 1819. It was during the preparation of this event, as Secretary […]
A McKenna who became Chancellor of the Exchequer
In his delightful book, “Long Shadows”, published by John Murray of London in 1966, Sir Shane Leslie of Glaslough had this to say of the McKennas: “A large number of priests and people on the estate bore the name of McKenna, which was rare in England until Daniel O’Connell brought their Chief from our […]
Stamp Celebrates Irish Role in Chilean Independence
On 28th October 2010, An Post in Ireland and the Chilean Post Office issued commemorative stamps in honour of General Juan MacKenna and Bernardo O’Higgins simultaneously in Ireland and Chile. This was a unique occasion and the first time ever that stamps were issued simultaneously in two different countries and two different continents. Learn more […]
National Archive of Ireland – Census of Ireland 1901/1911
A valuable resource for anyone researching thir family history. The Archive has a searchable database of the census returns for the years 1910 and 1911 with links through to images of the actual Cenus Return Forms for each household.