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• 28/Nov/2022 09:08:09

Postcard worth €110 ! www.whytes.ie/art/1913-18-november-barrys-fort-listowel-t... Like the grafitti bottom right - " Shoot him. "

Niall McAuley

• 28/Nov/2022 09:58:53

I like this row of shops on William St. Listowel: streetview because: from the catalogue, Handwritten entry on reverse reads : '18th Nov, 1913, Patrick ? Shaughnessy, Listowel. The Van Houten's Cocoa signs usually mean a pub/retaraunt, and I only see one Barry pub in Listowel, on William St.

suckindeesel

• 28/Nov/2022 10:39:10

Looks good “Notes • There is a building on this site on OS3 (1888-1913). This building appears in Lawrence Collection photograph – console brackets and cornice but no quoins or architraves.” No. 57 William St. www.kerryheritage.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Listowel-...

Niall McAuley

• 28/Nov/2022 11:18:04

Another possible Streetview

Niall McAuley

• 28/Nov/2022 11:22:49

For anyone with newspaper archive access, there is an article with LISTOWEL BRANCH TOWN TENANT LEAGUE on Nov. 1st 1913 in the Kerryman.

John Spooner

• 28/Nov/2022 11:24:02

Kerry Reporter - Saturday 20 December 1913

TOWN TENANTS' LEAGUE LISTOWEL BRANCH. STARTING A BAND. Since the fortification of Barry's Fort. the members of the Listowel Town Tenants' Association have been exceedingly active holding meetings. Large and enthusiastic gatherings have been held, and addressed in vigorous terms by the Chairman of the brunch, Mr. Maurice Kerin, as well as Messrs. . J. J. O'Quigley and E. J. Gleeson. The action of Lord Listowel in allowing such a number of his delapidated hovels to exist in Convent-lane in such an utterly unsanitary and dangerous condition has been determinedly denounced, and the members are directing their attention towards the expediency of making an effort to buy out the town for the tenantry of the town, thus making them the owners of their houses and securing for them a real and much-needed fixity of tenure. A number of the members of the Association collected the town on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings for the means of establishing a fife and drum hand, and as a practical indication of the interest taken in the town tenants' movement in Listowel' and the enthusiasm evoked in the cause. the whole cost of the band has been collected and a band master. Mr. P. Salmon, the instructor of the Duagh band, appointed.

The following year . Kerry Reporter - Saturday 08 August 1914:

VALUE OF HOUSE PROPERTY IN LASTOWEL. Within the last week the sale by private treaty has taken place of the licensed premises situate in William-street, Listowel, and known as " Barry's Fort " by reason of the stubborn and successful fight made by the local branch of the Town Tenants" Association against the landlord some months ago. Some time ago the house was put up by public auction, whoa the sum of £650 was offered, but there being a reserve of £800 on the premises no sale took place. Since then the house has been sold by private treaty to Mr. Michael Fitzgerald. manager at Mr. John Murphy's hardware establishment, Market-street, and who intends embarking on the same line of business with the host of good wishes of his numerous friends and acquaint" fumes.

and then, Kerry Evening Post - Wednesday 02 September 1914

Barry's Fort. Mr J Byne, solr, on behalf of Mr Michael Fitzmaurice, Main Street, applied for transfer of the publican's's licence held by Mrs Bridget Barry, Wiliam Street, attached to the premises well known as "Barry’s Fort,” and recently re-christened the Listowel. The police offered no objection, and the transfer was granted.

O Mac

• 28/Nov/2022 11:42:29

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/] I think your first Streetview is right. notice the asymmetrical windows... RH windows closer to building on right than LH windows are to building on the left. maps.app.goo.gl/wSPEvJehfTA4t9dH8

Niall McAuley

• 28/Nov/2022 12:30:11

Bridget Barry is 41 and a widow in the 1911 census. She is a widow in 1901 too

suckindeesel

• 28/Nov/2022 12:53:27

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ No, your first one is correct, no. 57

John Spooner

• 28/Nov/2022 13:52:13

In 1900 a Mrs Bridget Barry won a contract for supplying certain groceries to the Listowel Board of Guardians (i..e the workhouse authorities). Kerry Reporter - Saturday 07 April 1900:

The following were accepted:— Mrs Bridget Barry---soft sugar, at 13s 10d per cwt.; ground pepper, at 10d per lb; mould candles, at 4s 9d per doz lbs ; lump salt, at 2s 6d per cwt; rum at 2s 6d a bottle; porter, at 1s a dozen; gin, at 2s 5d a bottle ; soda water, at 2s a dozen; lemonade, at 1s 6d a dozen.

4 other suppliers were contracted to supply other other groceries. I'm surprised that they required alcohol for the workhouse. Perhaps it was for the Board of Guardians' meetings. I know that the workhouse where my GGG grandfather was resident needed special permission to supply a bottle of beer to each man on the occasion of a concert performed by the local music hall

Niall McAuley

• 28/Nov/2022 14:55:55

1888 marriage of David Barry and Bridget Keane, he is a shopkeeper in Listowel, 33, she is the daughter of a shopkeeper in Listowel, aged 18. Their address was William Street in May 1889 for the birth of son John, also Feb 1891 for son James (died at 3 months), David in 1892 (died at 5 weeks), Mary in 1894 (died at 5 months). Still William Street at the death of husband David from enteritis in 1899. So it is possible Bridget was in this shop since her marriage in 1888. David is recorded as a Shopkeeper at his death, sons birth and in the census, but as a Publican in the Calendar of Wills. He left £566 to Bridget, quite a lot.

suckindeesel

• 28/Nov/2022 17:15:13

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Lots of premises were both grocery and bar. I remember being in ‘Signal Box’ bar in Ballybrophy many moons ago where the bar was separated from the shop by a door.