A couple of HICKEY bits....
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Extracts from “Sliab
Luacra” magazines 2015
Nos 1, 7, 8, 9, & 11 never sighted.
From Kenmare Lib
No 12 (Nov 2006) –
“The Irish language was
largely gone by 900, literally buried in the graveyards.”
The Hollymount Bridge was
a yellow meal bridge, linking Cork and Kerry on the Aunaskirtaun River
No 14 (Dec 2010) –
(A
Donal Hickey – Editor – article) “My grandfather Dan Sean Gabha Hickey came
from a family of smiths... a native of Knockduff, came to Gneeveguilla in the
second half of 1800s”
Nos 5, 6, 10, 18 also seen but nothing
relevant
No 16 (Nov 2014) we bought in Kiskeam - nothing relevant
From Killarney Lib
No 13 –
Clashagarrane School 1836-38 – No
Hickey kids
Gullane Creamery 1960s – None
Mountcain 1950s – Mary (shop), Batt Dan
(farmer)
No 2 –
Knocknagree School 1912 – (of abt 60
kids) Lilly, Molly, Hannah,
Kingwilliamstown School 1931 – None
Ballydesmond School 1915 – None
Gneeveguilla School 1926 – None
Gneeveguilla 1938 – blacksmith was
Daniel Hickey
Tureencahill School 1929 – None
Rathmore East Coop 1921 – Tim J, John
T, Denis (Aunaskirtane),
Tim, Larry, Corney, John
H, Andrew H (Rathmore)
Knockanes School 1931 – None
No 3 –
Knocknagree
School 1925 – Denis, Tim, Willie (Village)
No 4 –
In
the 1940s the locals “...hired Timmy Hickey’s hackney car in Gneeveguilla after
the dance... to Ballydesmond...”
In
1926 the Gneeveguilla dance hall was owned by “...the Dan Sean Gabha
Hickeys...”
In
the 1920s, after the Gneeveguilla dance on Sunday nights, Tim Hickeys hackney
car was used, he charged 1/- to take them to Ballydesmond.
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From the DAN BATTIE
HICKEY “LIVING VOICES” CD
(Recorded in Dec 2002,
when he looks about 60-65)
Dan Battie Hickey of Knocknagree, but
he was born in Mountcain. His father was the “Battie” part (as 5 Danls at the
time (in Knocknagree?), and his father was Daniel.
The Hickeys came from Cullen –
Lisnabee.
They came down from Co Clare
(historicaslly?), settled in Cullen (parish?), 5-6 townlands down there, became
too numerous for down there, so my (Dan’s) grandfather came to Mountcain when
it came up for letting in 1825 and he got over 200 acres of land there and
farmed. He was certainly there in 1830 (Tithes).
His grandfather was born around the
time the school was built in Knocknagree, around 1840.
We’re really Kerry people here
There was a monastery a mile down the
road, the Blackfriars,
A lot of traffic passed through
Knocknagree, they had a lot of smiths there, Sweeneys forge down the road
Photo of Eileen’s grandparents, gfather
died 1903 (aged 53), gmother died 1910, he was the principle of Knocnagree School,
All family history was passed on
orally, sessions in the bar “still”,
It was my “great-grandfather” that came
up from Lisnabee in 1825, and his father was an Andy Hickey, and there’s a
headstone in the Cullen burial place to him, “he died in 1870, 1870 48
something like that, he was 76 years of age”
People would meet around the forge and
pass on information.
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From Old Cullen graveyard tombstones –
ERECTED BY ANDREW DAN & JOHN HICKEY
IN MEMORY OF THEIR FATHER ANDREW HICKEY OF LISNABEE WHO DIED AD 1839 AGED 75
YEARS
THEIR SISTER JOHA CRONIN ALIAS HICKEY
DIED AD 1832 AGED 24 YEARS
DANIEL D HICKEY MOUNTCAIN 1800 - 1887
DANIEL D HICKEY MOUNTCAIN 1840 - 1924
ERECTED BY THE BATTIE DAN HICKEYS
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