Many of the people who lived in the early 1900s around Tierworker are featured in the photos in this article. We need help to identify students at the old national school at Edendugally in 1913. Fortunately, Willie O’Brien at age 95 is able to identify many of the students in Edengora National School in the 1920s. We only have a few names of women and men of Tierworker who went on an excursion of pioneers in the 1930s or 1940s.
HELP NEEDED TO IDENTIFY THESE WOMEN OF TIERWORKER, AND DATE?
Your name: Sharon D’Arcy
Phone number: 0868941007
Your e-mail: shasclarke@hotmail.com
Your message: Hiya Philip,
I am a grand-daughter of Anne Marie (Nan) Clarke of Doon. You have a photograph of what you presume is a probably a Pioneer excursion c1940, although Kathleen Cooney guesses 1954/6. My father rang Tom French in Navan Library to inform him that his mother, Anne Marie was present in the photo and told him where she was standing. We think she is listed as the wrong person on the photo. We would have said her position in the photo was sixth on the back row, left to right. She is wearing a small hat with one curl visible on her forehead and all you see in the photo is her head as the shoulders or the rest of her body is not visible.
She died in 1999 aged 92 and I would have gauged her age in the photo to be in her late teens or early 20s so I would say c1930s but that would just be a guess.
I have done some family research in the Clarkes of Doon. Do you have any information on the names on headstones in Moybolgue cemetery? I would be very interested in you have any?
Sharon D’Arcy
Response – Sharon, I think your description fits with #4 in back row. Only her head is visible.
HELP NEEDED TO IDENTIFY THESE MEN OF TIERWORKER, AND DATE?
HELP NEEDED TO IDENTIFY THESE PEOPLE AT EDENDUGALLY NATIONAL SCHOOL C1913
Willie O`Brien of Edengora at 95 years is the oldest living person in Tierworker Parish. Photo taken c2009. Submitted by Richard Barber April 17, 2010.
