Castleblakeney Village Timeline
Valerie Kinsella
- Co. Galway – County
Over 25 years of the history of Castleblakeney and the people who lived and worked here over the centuries from the Gallagh Bog man, 2,040 years old, the O'Kelly Family, the Blakeney Family and the Orphans of the Famine from the Course, Castleblakeney who went to Australia in 1852 on the ship, Palestine. Horse Fairs, Famine and the First World War and the Restoration of the Church of Ireland from a Ruin in 1997 into a Heritage Centre in the present day. The Scottish connection with Stirling and the Battle of Culloden 1746.