Tim O Mahony 1977 photo by his wife Norah (Hickey) O Mahony

Timothy O Mahony of "The Lake" Castle Lack near Bandon, county Cork Ireland, - photo by his wife Norah Hickey O Mahony 1975. web page 103 photo 1434

Tim O Mahony was a first cousin of Ann Loretto Buckley, where John Barrett jr. visited in 1970s in Moskeigh Templemartin and a second cousin of Commander John Berchmans Barrett USN. His mother Catherine Buckley O Mahony was one of three daughters of Michael Buckley of Moskeigh 1834-1918 and his wife Mary O Reilly. She had brothers Patrick and Michael Buckley and a sister Ellen in Presentation nuns in Aberdeen South Dakota. Tim had younger brothers James and John who moved with their families to Preston, Lancashire, England. Tim's sister Mary Ellen O Mahony became an American citizen for some years living in Cambridge Massachusetts about 1925-1932 but returned to live with her family in Castle Lack. There were hard times in Ireland in 1930s and during World War II, so Tim did not marry until he was able to offer Norah Hickey her own home on the farm but after he was fifty years of age, they had a son John now operating the farm and duaghters Catherine and Ann O Mahony. John Barrett saw Tim and Norah and their three children many times in the 1970s and met Tim's sister who passed away 1973 and his brother James on a visit. John O Mahony has four children as of 1990s and his sisters are married and have families also. Norah O Mahony was in the habit of saying "Better an old man's darling than a young man's slave". Loretto and May Buckley were frequent visitors at the Castle Lack farm. In 1977 John Barrett accompanied the Catle Lack O Mahony family to an O Mahony genealogical gathering at the Castle Mor limstone works where bricks are manufactured. The name O Mahony goes back at least to their ancestor the Ard Ri (high king) Brian Boru, who repulsed at Danish invasion in 1013 or 1014 at Clontarf on the east coast of Dublin when he was eighty-eght years old. The principal site of the O Mahonys was nearby in Gurranes townland of Templemartin parish. Jack Barrett's mother's mother's mother Ellen O Mahony was some relation to Tim's family, but the precise connection does not appear in available records. They were second cousins through the Buckley link.