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Galway / Re: Shea's of Galway
« on: Tuesday 17 May 16 13:17 BST (UK) »
Michael Shea was my Great-grandfather too!
I was a bit confused by a sign on the top floor of Galway City Museum recently which points out Comerford House i.e. the old museum building at the Spanish Arch as occupied by Tim Shea and as a 'Public House'. I had been told stories by my father of how Tim used to keep pigs on the grassy area above the arches and how he used to push them up the stairs inside!!!
Then I came across a painting by chance in NUIG of a scene of the fish market at the Spanish Arch by the seascape painter T.R. Miles in which he has included the text of the Tim Shea sign over the door, so often seen in old postcards, which says ...ings and Entertainment, which my wife astutely thinks could be Lodgings and Entertainment.
Obviously this proves the public house to be true.
Anyway, the info on the links to Oranmore are interesting. Bridget is listed in the census document from 1911 as being from Maree. There's a note on the census form saying 'taken as Co. Mayo' which is obviously incorrect.
Anyway, would love to talk to both of you. I'm in Galway, if this thread becomes live again, mail me!
Ger
I was a bit confused by a sign on the top floor of Galway City Museum recently which points out Comerford House i.e. the old museum building at the Spanish Arch as occupied by Tim Shea and as a 'Public House'. I had been told stories by my father of how Tim used to keep pigs on the grassy area above the arches and how he used to push them up the stairs inside!!!
Then I came across a painting by chance in NUIG of a scene of the fish market at the Spanish Arch by the seascape painter T.R. Miles in which he has included the text of the Tim Shea sign over the door, so often seen in old postcards, which says ...ings and Entertainment, which my wife astutely thinks could be Lodgings and Entertainment.
Obviously this proves the public house to be true.
Anyway, the info on the links to Oranmore are interesting. Bridget is listed in the census document from 1911 as being from Maree. There's a note on the census form saying 'taken as Co. Mayo' which is obviously incorrect.
Anyway, would love to talk to both of you. I'm in Galway, if this thread becomes live again, mail me!
Ger