Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-04-04
IRELAND.
Record Of the Most Important Of
the Recent Events Cuiled
From Exchanges.

Rev. d. O'Connor, Of Killarney,
has been appointed to the pastoral
charge Of Annascaul.
The burial took place of Daniel
Mullane, of ,Macroom, who had
reached his 10th year.
The business of the County
| Armagh Assizes was extremely light,
as there was but one criminal case.
The Navan Urban Council has
agreed to strike penny rate and
grant a free site for a free library.
To the Irvinestown Union belongs
the distinction of having for the
| financial year ending March 81,
1915, no poor rate to pay.
The dead body of James Mcintyre,
retired schoolmaster and old age
pensioner of Ballyclose, was found
on the roadside at Fenaghy.
Abbeyleix Guardians have elected
the Master, Michael Maher, Clerk
of the Union and District Council by
| twenty-nine votes to twenty-six for
J. Dunphy, Jr.. of Rathdowney.
DIR. p. NJ. Quinn. of Sligo, was
unanimously appointed Superlntend.
ent Medical Officer of Health for
the borough, in room of DIR. Laird
who resigned He was the only
applicant.
| On the recommendation of the
| Marquis of Ormonde. the Lord
Chancellor has appointed James P
Hughes, of Graigue-na-Managh, to
the Commission of the Peace for
Kilkenny county.
#. Mccarthy O'Connor, Tarbert
Island and Listowel, has been ap.
pointed a Magistrate. He is Chair.
the Listowel Rural District Coun-
ell and Guardians.
Patrick Kearns, of Smutternaugh
formerly a gamekeeper on the Rock.
ingham preserves, was found dead on
his farm, where he had gone to dc
| some work. 1t is believed he sue
cumbed to heart failure.
In opening the Leitrim Spring
| Assizes in Carrick, Justice Moloney
congratulated the grand jury on the
peaceful state of the county and on
the fact that the business of the
assizes was markedly light.
At a meeting held recently in
Navan a corps of the Irish National
Volunteers was formed. There was
large meeting, which was ad-
dressed by Prof. Mcneil. After the
meeting ITO men were enrolled.
Chief Justice Cherry, addressing
the Meath grand jury, said, there
were only three cases, none of which
presented any difficulty The po-
lice returns showed the county to be
in a generally peaceful condition.
The Clonmel, Tipperary, Carrick
and Fethard Councils contemplate
big housing schemes. In Tipperary
about 400 houses have been con-
demned by the medical officer.
About 200 houses are required in
Clonmel.
The late Very Rev. Father John
Furlong, ex-Provincial of the
Augustinian order, who died at New
Ross, aged about seventy-five, was
member of an old and respected
County Wexford family, being born
at QUEENSTOWN.
A representative committee has
been formed in Irishtown and
Doitihuiiic, viii D. d. Mulidrhcy do
Chairman, ]. Freeley as Treasurer
and P. Kirrane as Secretary, for the
purpose of presenting an address
and testimonial to the Rev. John
Hyland, of Moore, who was curate
in Irishtown for eleven years.
At a meeting of the Galway
Rural District Council, a report
from special committee appointed
to inquire into housing scheme for
North Aran Island was approved,
recommending that a scheme should
be adopted for the building of about
sixty houses, comprising cottages,
with and without land.