The final part of a 4 Part Series of Ann O'Driscoll's virtual tour ( Part 01 here , Part 02 here and Part 03 here. ) of 1940s - 1960s Togher. This article gives a brief lookback at Pouladuff Road from Marieville to Casey's Cross. Items marker RED are either gone or have been radically altered.
1 - Marieville
This was a two storied house which is still in situ today though modernised. It was the first house after The Laurels heading along Pouladuff Road and out towards Casey's Cross. It was lived in by Phil Hussey and her family and their land backed onto Long's Farm on Togher Road. On their property were two other cottages lived in by the O'Briens and the Sheehans.
2 - Sarahville
This workmans cottage is still extant today and was originally lived in by Peggy Crowley. Originally a small house was adjoined to the gable end and was known locally as " The Castle ". * Ironically an estate across the road from the house in the modern suburb of Ballyphehane was named Sarahville Place. As was another estate further up Pouladuff Road and bisected by same - Joe Murphy Road.
owned and operated by Delaney family
3 - Delaney's
The Delaney family lived in the " Blue House " which was built adjacent and joined to Joe Murphy house. It should be noted that Ann O'Driscoll's father John Joe Hegarty had a placue erected on Joe Murphy house in 1960. In the late 1960s , Harry Delaney opened Pouladuff Motors on land to the right of Joe Murphy house which is now Lee Metals.
now Industrial Park
4 -Mrs. Edwards
She lived in a small cottage where the Industrial Park is now. All of that land was owned by the Delaney's.
* It should be noted that all of the land between The Laurels and Casey's Cross was for the most part either bought by Compulsory Purchase Order in the early 1960s for Corporation housing schemes or sold on for Industrial Parks.
Note old stone wall in background
now Garda Station with extention
5 - O'Sullivans
Initially the O'Sullivan family lived in a small cottage behind a wall in what is now the remnants of Youngline shoe factory. Later in the 1960s they would move across the road near Casey's Cross and build a 2 story house which would later become the new Garda Station in 1983. Ann recalls that they were a large family and all very tall. She jokingly remembers who they would all fill up the bus coming up Pouladuff Road at Casey's Cross.
