My great-grandfather`s name was Micheal Gallagher and he lived in Corraun, in Áird (A village in Corraun) He had a son named Michael and that was my grandfather. My grandfather had three sons and one daughter at home, Mathew, Micheal and Tommy were the son’s and Alice was the daughter’s name. She married a man named Gibbons from outside Newport. My mother’s name was Leneghan, one of the Leneghan’s of Ballycroy, and my father’s name was Tommy. My grandfather had a place in Newport and it was the first slated house that was built in the town, It was in the main street on the right hand side going in from here ..He had a shop, along with the three uncles and one aunt I had at home, I had two uncles who went to America, I never saw them, I had two aunts in America too but they came home and got married. The two of them married two Henry’s from Erris, Alice married Pat Henry and Sarah married Dominick Henry, the two men first cousins
My eldest uncle Mathew got my grandfather’s place in Newport, he was a smuggler and he used to go to Flush (flushing) for tobacco and other things and selling them out here and in Newport. He was drowned coming home from Flush. Paidin Ban ‘ac Cormaic was a first cousin of my mother’s.
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