Denis McCarthy Mahony
Denis McCarthy Mahony, 46, and his wife Mary, 43, stayed in one of the grand rooms in the main part of the Hydro hotel the night of March 31st 1901. [...]
Denis McCarthy Mahony, 46, and his wife Mary, 43, stayed in one of the grand rooms in the main part of the Hydro hotel the night of March 31st 1901. [...]
Vintage postcard showing Shournagh Valley from St Ann's Hydro Hotel If you were to travel along the road between Tower Cross and Shournagh bridge before 6am any morning [...]
When I first started to collect the census information for the Tower area a number of years ago I made a list of people and names that caught my attention, [...]
The circus came to Tower over a hundred years ago and there is no doubt it would have been a cause for huge excitement and high spirits. In April 1911 [...]
Head up the Old Kerry Road from Tower Cross, take the very first turn on your right and you are on a cul de sac known locally as Buckers Lane. [...]
One of the people who stayed in St Ann’s Hydro on the night of the 1911 census was involved in one of the most talked about sex scandals in Dublin’s [...]
Mitchelstown Castle circa early 1900’s from the Great Irish Houses website There wasn’t too many children staying in St Anns’ Hydro hotel on the night of the census in 1901; [...]
We have very few photos of my grandfather as a child, I suspect like most families photos from the early 20th century are not plentiful. We do have this [...]
While gathering the data for use within this site I was led astray, on more than one occasion, by the interesting people who lived or visited the area. I [...]