Galway In Days Gone By

1922

Houses for all

If the country were once settled, there would soon be ample housing for everyone in Galway, for, in addition to the scheme for ex-servicemen, the Urban Council is waiting to launch its own scheme and private enterprise will also do a great deal to meet the need that we believe will exist to build up a greater Galway than we have known in our generation.

Of the sixty-eight houses planned for on the original scheme for ex-servicemen, forty-six are well advanced at Grattan-road and Fairhill-road; Mr. H. M. A. Murphy, the inspector under the scheme, is negotiating with the Urban Council to procure land for the additional twenty-two.

The Council in one of its own schemes proposes to break a road from Silke’s dangerous corner – which must be done away with – across to Grattan-road. This will alter for the better this area and will, with the Fairhill houses, do much to relieve the congestion of bad and insanitary dwellings in the Claddagh.

Civil War casualties

There were pathetic scenes by the biers of fallen soldiers. The following official report was issued from Brigade Headquarters, Loughrea, on Monday:–

“A convoy from Dublin, consisting of two lorries and an armoured car, passed through Loughrea on Saturday night on route for Ennis. Near Kilchreest, they were held up by barricades on the road, and it looked as if they were going to be ambushed. The members of the convoy set themselves to clear away the obstacles and whilst the armoured car was covering this operation and patrolling the road, its occupants observed some men running across a field towards adjacent cover.

“A shot was fired over the heads of three men with the object of getting them to halt, but they paid no heed to the warning. Thereupon the National troops surrounded the place towards which they had gone, and took prisoners ten Irregulars with arms and ammunition.

“During the operation the fire from the position occupied by the Irregulars killed a private belonging to the Dáil troops, and when the position was occupied, the dead body of Francis Kearns of Loughrea, a member of the Irregular forces, was found.

“Both corpses were brought in to Loughrea by the County Home ambulance acting under orders from the Brigade authorities and that of Kearns was handed over to his relatives. The prisoners were lodged in the bridewell at Loughrea.”

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