Dromahair
WREATH MAKING WORKSHOP
A Christmas Wreath Making Workshop will take place in the Depot Back line Dromahair on Thursday night next December 13 at 7.30 p.m. Materials supplied and refreshments. €5 cover charge. Please give names in advance so Carol has an idea of numbers. Ring 9134986 any morning before 1 p.m. to book your place.
SANATA
Santa will be visiting Gala in Dromahair on Saturday, December 15, so boys and girls that’s a date to look forward to.
DRUMLEASE NS
We will be having our Christmas Celebrationin St Patrick’s Church, Dromahair on Wednesday, December 12, at 7 p.m.
LEITRIM GUARDIAN
The 2019 issue of the Leitrim Guardian carries articles and photos about Dromahair and its surrounding townlands. There are two photos of Micheál McGoldrick from Kilcoosey, who once again won the potato championship at Tullamore this year. Not only that, Micheál went to Moate and won first prize for growing onions. Micheál worked for several years at Gillmors supermarket and hardware store and is well-known in Dromahair.
There is a happy photo of seven siblings in the White family from Kilavoggy celebrating a meal together with spouses in 2017. It was the first time in 64 years that they all sat down to a meal together. Four of them had emigrated to the USA and a few managed to pay holiday visits during the intervening years, but 2017 was the first time all could come at the same time.
A sadder photo features friends and customers with the last postmistress of Killargue when the post office closed for good in August 2018. The post office first opened in the mid1850s. It is the end of an era.
Fr Gerry Comiskey, who hails from Newtownmanor-Leckaun, has an article about two notable people in Australia and the USA who had ancestral links with that beautiful hilly area.
Garreth Byrne gives a short history of the Breiffne Creamery Co-op that produced butter at Cleen near Dromahair between 1904 and its dissolution in the mid-1980s. His information is based on interviews given to him by the late Josie Torsney, who passed away early in 2018. Mr Torsney worked at Cleen creamery from 1945 till 1968. The article is illustrated with a photo of the empty building in the 1980s before it was demolished. A dancing school now operates on the site in a modern building. Another photo taken c.1960 shows the late James ‘ Jimmy’ Travers of Fawn near Dromahair with a donkey and cart carrying churns of fresh milk to the creamery. Mr Travers died in 1988.
The Leitrim Guardian is for sale at €12 is great value.
CALENDAR ON SALE
Killargue
‘Lives and Times’ Calendar 2019 is now on sale. Price €10. An ideal Christmas gift.
ASTROTURF
DARC are delighted to announce that the work to construct the Allweather astroturf playing surface has commenced in the park. Work will take 12 weeks to complete, so allowing for Christmas it should be completed by mid February.
During the construction, the playground will be accessible and will be fenced off from any works. The walkway around the park will not be available during this time. The main pitch is also unavailable till the spring while GAA carry out maintenance work.
This will be another excellent amenity for the whole of Dromahair, and we look forward to welcoming everyone to the new facility when it is completed.
THE DEPOT
Workshop for 15- to 18-yearolds in the Depot on Wednesdays 7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. This is a Peace Learning Project.
Edwina Guckian’s Áirc Damhsa Dance Club on Thursdays at 5 p.m. for beginners and 5.30 for improvers see aircdamhsa.com/ classes for more info.
Green Dragon Karate on Friday 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Contact Michael Sweeney for more details 087 9011233.
CONTACT
If you have any items you wish included in the local notes contact us Thursday before midday To book the venue for classes, parties, meetings: telephone 071 9134986, mobile: 085 8017943 or email dda.tidytowns@gmail. com.