by designwest_a | Nov 25, 2016 | History
The Church. The original name of the Parish is Killedan which comes from the Irish Cill Liodáin, ‘the Church of Liodáin’. Killedan Church which was a Franciscan foundation would have been the centre of Christianity in this part of Co. Mayo from the 12th to the...
by designwest_a | Nov 25, 2016 | History
Fire Tragedy I suppose you could say that my association with fire fighting in Kiltimagh began when I wasn’t yet two years of age. You see I was, as my late mother always told me, born on the same day as Patrick Ruane, the youngest child of the Ruane...
by designwest_a | Nov 25, 2016 | People
Anthony Raftery Anthony Raftery was born in Killedan in 1779 or 1784, the son of a weaver. He was blinded by small pox while very young and is said to have worked as a stable boy for the landlord, Frank Taaffe. While he had no formal education, Frank...
by designwest_a | Nov 25, 2016 | People
Michael Hogarty Michael Hogarty, who emigrated from Pulroghnane in 1930, made a telling contribution to the defeat of Japan in World Ward II by discovering how to combine the computer from a Nordan bombsight to a radar bombsight which, when tested, was...
by designwest_a | Nov 25, 2016 | Sport
Kiltimagh GAA In 1887 three years after the foundation of the GAA, a club under the name of ‘O’Donnell Abu’s’ was established in the town but there is very little known of its activities or personnel until 1910 when the club was reformed under the...
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