SUMMERHILL

" From Loemans Corner (Spout Road) to the Military Barracks, hitherto a part of Castle St, to be called Summerhill." - Nenagh Guardian 14/09/1839

Nowadays these stonebuilt houses would be prime examples of Vernacular Architecture and very sought after.....

.....the alternative as progress moves steadily forward.

The Garjin Office on the left .....

Lynch's Shop - popular venue for spending your penny on sweets as you returned to school after dinnertime

Once a cinema, then a warehouse and now a cinema once again

1966 at Church Road corner

Military on Parade down Summerhill

One of the many processions that have marched down Summerhill

Fogartys as I knew it when growing up and also previously home to Persian Diplomat Serope Seropian. His son Charles Oliver Foley was a recipient of an O.B.E for his work on trawlers in the North Sea against German Submarines in WW1. He adopted his mothers name, Foley in 1923

No 14 Summerhill.

This was at one time a Police barracks and was attacked during the Militia Mutiny of 1856

Quality Georgian Architecture in Summerhill. Just look at those Fanlights

No 15 Summerhill

No 32 Summerhill - built 1840

Stunning Georgian Fanlight in Summerhill

48/49 Summerhill

The magnificently voiced Val Power who lived opposite the Military Barracks. He was a firm favourite at any variety concert and often sang at the Church choir and at the Ex-servicemens "Hut"

No 16 Summerhill

The steps and doorway of No 16 Summerhill

The legendary Moon & Sixpence, later The Brady Carmel, where many of us learned to drink. Previously The Carmel Hotel and watering hole for Eamonn DeValera whenever he passed through town.

Willie Ryan's work van parked outside 38 Summerhill with the awning for the Carmel Hotel showingbehind the pole

Gordan Wetmore sketch of Church Road and Lower Summerhill junction. The cyclist looks suspiciously like W.J. Heaney

A wet day in Summerhill. Note the cobbles outside the houses and in the gutters

Summers Day in Summerhill

Old & new transport and Military with Swagger Stick and Pouch making his way up to the Military Barracks

View from Gibbons House

Postman outside the Postbox in the wall

A good natter and no problem with the child playing on the pavement

Summerville House, demolished to make way for the C.B.S.

Gibbons, previously Morgan's and birth home of E.H.Sheehan, author of Nenagh & its Neighbourhood

Summerhill House built 1836 (or Moynan's as I knew it)

The C.B.S.

The pupils of St Joseph's Christian Brothers School, fresh and excited after marching through town from Johns Lane Old school to the new school premises in Summerhill. Sadly Summerville House had to be demolished to make space for the new build. The new school meant a new regime and Boys had to change into slippers each morning to protect the new polished parquet flooring. Inevitably, shoes and slippers went missing or else slipper fights down the school corridors resulted in your hunting for your footwear.

The Christian Brothers Community House. The community finally left Nenagh in 2023 ending a 160 year presence in the town.

Making their way to school on a misty wintry morning.

Brother Cass had us tasked with each boy had to bring in a jamjar of earthworms in order to rejuvenate the soil in the hurling pitch that had been newly created. Easy enough if you were a country lad and had access to ready made compost heaps, but as for us townies...we failed miserably and were punished for our failure

Figgerty's Bar

One of the many Ordnance Survey Markers that surrounded the Military Barracks

Una Powell behind her bar

Interior

Powells Pub

Fogarty's or Molly Ban's pub, directly opposite the Military Barracks. It has gone through a number of re-incarnations in it's time. I remember it as Kenna's and then Jack & Mamie Sherlock had it

Summerhill & Turnpike taken from 1856 Encumbered Estate Map