Kilmartin’s Land/Buildings, Carfin

[MollyC]

The pictures are very helpful.  The first two pictures seem to show the Carfin Cross corner with an open space where the small houses had been demolished.  The block of buildings with a red dot included the pub at the far end.  What appeared to be four houses on the maps up to 1939 seems more likely to be two tenement buildings with staircases projecting from the rear.  The street numbering in 1957 shows there were 14 properties within three adjoining buildings, including the pub - Kilmartin's/Reilly's.  So perhaps there had been another 8 beyond the pub, of which only 2 were still standing by 1957, to total 22.

In the third picture the Redpath Bar is the pub numbered 128 on the 1957 map, apparently joined with 126 as well, but standing separately from other buildings, on the opposite side of the road.

[Lodger]

amelialen, I think you would mean Saint Francis Xavier 

This is the interior of the church as it was in your grandparents time, it was built in the 1860's.  They would have been married at morning mass, perhaps with one or two other couples, they didn't have special wedding masses in those days. Sadly, this lovely little church was demolished about 1972 and a much larger church was erected on the opposite side of the road.

[Lodger]

This is the outside of that church. On the extreme left is the parish hall, still standing (it now has a front door where the windows were) and is known as "The Little Flower Hall", named so as a tribute to
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. The large parish house is still standing, it is still the same, outside and inside! It is now occupied by the Spiritian Fathers, (The Holy Ghost Fathers) a religious order of priests, who have been there since 1973, after the the parish priest moved across to the new house.
The space where the church was is now a car park.