Thoms look-up request: 1922 and 1937

[Earth.Traveller]

Shane and eadaoin kindly offered to do look-ups in Thoms. I would be very grateful for a look-up on a business run by my ggrandmother.  Here are the details I know:

Name: Mary Anne Kearney (or possibly Philip Kearney);
Business: shop/newsagent;
Dates: about 1920 to 1940;
Location: Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8 (or possibly neighbouring streets: Tyrconnell Street, Tyrconnell Park, Ring Terrace, O'Donoghue Street);
Other information: the same building also housed a business run by a family called Gillet.

Sorry to be vague about the street.  The shop was close to the Oblate Church of Saint Mary Immaculate, which is on Tyrconnell Road.

[eadaoin]

1922 Thoms - can't find Gillet or Kearney on these streets - for the last two it just says small houses - likewise for a lot of Tyrconnell Rd.

There are Kearney newsagents in Capel St, Georges St and Stephens St.

1937 .. no. 84 Tyrconnell Road has O'Loughlin, Kearney, tobacconist.
No mention of Gillet

regards eadaoin

[Earth.Traveller]

Many thanks eadaoin. The 1937 entry sounds on target. The eldest daughter of Mary Anne Kearney married a man called O'Loughlin. I must check the road out some time and see what is standing there now.

[shanew147]

Thom's of 1949 has the same listing for number 84

The Church of Saint Mary Immaculate that you mentioned is on the same side of the road at number 70 (all even numbers on that side).


Shane

[Earth.Traveller]

Thanks Shane! That is good to know. My g-grandmother died in 1952 aged 92, so it seems she was still running the shop in her late eighties.

[myluck!]

I have a relative who was Philip Kearney b 1886 d 1947

He was born in Stillorgan and in later life lived in Kilmainham, Inchicore and Drimnagh
His wife was Kathleen Bourke from Kilkenny

Any chance there is a connection to your Mary Anne on Tyrconnell Road??

[Earth.Traveller]

My great-grandfather was Philip Kearney b. 1853 in County Meath and d. 1923. So it looks like your relation is a different Philip Kearney.