Paddy Murphy of Moskeigh holds Road-Bowling Trophy

Paddy Murphy of Moskeigh,Cork holds bowling trophy p 29-860

Paddy Murphy of Moskeigh, son of John Murphy and Margaret "Peggy" Sheehy frequently won bowling-on-the road trophies including Ireland-wide events in the 1970's. This inexpensive sport was very popular in rurual areas. His mother Peggy is a third cousin of John Barrett Harvard college l957. Her father Maurice Sheehy father of six passed away 1973 - he was a second cousin of Commander John Berchmans Barrettt USN 1888-1969. Maurice's wife Kate O HLLORAN was believed also to be a Buckley -Barrett third cousin through the "Quarry Murphy" clan and Catherine Murphy, great-grandmother of Commander Barrett and of Loretto Buckley of Moskeigh and her brother Richard and their cousins in Ilford, including Cyril Buckley. She was the wife of John Buckley, who was tenant of the sixty acre Moskeigh Buckley property in 1827 and 1852.This couple had seven sons and four daughters according to Richard Buckley of Newcestown l904-l998. Their great-grandchildren also include Tim and Ellen O Mahony Castle Lack, Bandon, and Maurice,Jack, and Jerry Sheehy born Moskeigh between l900 & l908