CO-CVEE-0010

Record Date: 
8 July 2014
Graveyard: 
Canovee (Cannaway)
Exact wording of epitaph: 

In Loving Memory of

the SHEEHAN family

LEADES, AGHINAGH

  R.I.P.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.887176388889
Longitude: 
-8.8725397222222
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
Sheehan
Address: 
Leades, Aghinagh
Notes: 

The Irish Press 14/4/1949 gave the following report: Mr. Daniel Sheehan, Main Street, Macroom, whose funeral took place to Canovee Cemetery, served with the I.R.A. during the fight for Independence and was once held as a hostage after an ambush in the Macroom district. Former I.R.A. comrades supplied a Guard of Honour and a firing party under Lieut. J. Burke, F.C.A.

Chief Mourners: J. Sheehan (brother); Miss Ann Sheehan, Mrs. Twohig and Mrs. Murphy (sisters), Joseph Murphy, Cork (brother-in-law), Abina and Mary Sheehan (nieces), Robert and John Twohig (nephews), John Shine, Joseph Shine, Mrs. Twomey and Mrs. Hayes (relatives).

Dan owned a public house in Macroom, later owned by Joe Shine and his son Jackie when it was changed to a shop. The shop was situated at the end of Chapel Hill and was removed to widen the road.

The 1901 Census records a Jeremiah Sheehan, National Teacher, 51, living in Leadawillin (Leades), Aghinagh . Also in the household were his wife Norah, 42, his sons Jeremiah, 16, John, 12, Daniel, 8, and daughters Mary Anne, 15, Norah, 13, Eliza, 10, Anne, 5. In the 1911 Census for the same townland James Twohig, farmer, 31, his wife Eliza, 20 and son Jeremiah are recorded.