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Sad day as Burren farmers left for new homes

Friday, 25 June 2010 14:16
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turf fireIt is now close on 70 years since many families from Mayo were migrated to various places in the midlands to begin a new life. For those families it was the start of an entirely different lifestyle, but they were living in areas where their families had striven to eke out a living in difficult conditions.
In 1939 six families left Burren, Castlebar, for a new settlement at Boistown, between Trim and Kells, Co. Meath. The average valuation of their holdings in Burren was £2 and the families lived
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Castlebar giants who lived to great ages

Monday, 21 June 2010 13:40
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old handsI see where an English geriatrician, who maintains he knows a thing or two about the ageing process, says in the near future people will live to be 100 years old. The English doc is way behind the times, and I will tell you why.
Back in 1904 a man named James Conway, Rockfield, Turlough, Castlebar, died at the extraordinary age of 114 years. Born in 1790, he distinctly recalled the landing of the French forces in Killala, under General Humbert, and the subsequent Races of Castlebar.
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From Castlebar to a prison of war camp in Java

Friday, 11 June 2010 13:55
Written by Johnny Mee
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barbed wireSean McFadden is perhaps one of Castlebar's unsung war heroes. He endured a number of frightening experiences, and lived to tell the tale.

Sean was son of Mr. and Mrs. John McFadden, Lower Chapel Street, Castlebar, and as a young man with a spirit of adventure, he joined the Royal Air Force. He was based in Singapore when Japan declared war on the British and Americans. An immediate evacuation was ordered and John was soon on his way to Java, a distance of over 600 miles.


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Combating the White plague in 1940's Castlebar

Tuesday, 01 June 2010 15:36
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tuberculosis wardSome of us are old enough to remember when tuberculosis was rampant in this country. New sanatoria were opened in Creagh, Ballinrobe, and at Belleek, outside Ballina, in the 1940s in an effort to combat the dreaded disease.
I remember visiting patients in Belleek in the early 1950s; some of those who suffered from tuberculosis recovered, others, alas, were not so lucky.
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