Talk:Ballaghaderreen

Douglas Hyde
Is he not from Castlerea? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlerea#People http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hyde — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.61.69.4 (talk) 14:29, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Google suggests either Castlerea or Frenchpark, so I've removed his name from this article. Thanks. As an aside, please start new topics at the bottom of the talk page, and sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~ ). You are also free to edit the articles yourself! —WOFall (talk) 17:40, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

War of Independence
Is this the town where the Irish guy was dragged through it tied to the back of a British truck during the War? If so, who was the guy and is there any more somebody could write about this? 89.101.41.216 (talk) 21:02, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You may be referring to the Loughnane brothers. I'm not aware of a similar incident in this area. RashersTierney (talk) 21:48, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. There is something on Timeline_of_the_Irish_War_of_Independence: '23 September 1920: Two RIC men were killed in an ambush by East Mayo and South Sligo IRA brigades, at Ratra near Frenchpark, County Roscommon. One volunteer died in the action; Black and Tans mutilated his body and dragged it through the streets of Ballaghaderreen.' No name, though. I had always thought the Roscommon town where this happened was Ballinderry as I attended the Roscommon Fleadh there about 15 years ago and, as far as I remember, there was a plaque on a street house stating that two people had been dragged through the town during the war of independence. A google for Ballinderry only has one person being dragged through Ballaghaderreen.

Mayo/Roscommon
A much more interesting background to Balaghaderreen leaving Mayo is found in this Irish Times article: "The confused allegiances of its 2,000 citizens can be traced back to 1898 when John Dillon, the MP for East Mayo and a member of the town’s most powerful family, tabled an amendment to the Local Government Act in Westminster.It redrew the county boundaries, pushing Ballaghaderreen from Mayo into Roscommon. The reason? Rates were cheaper in Roscommon – but the GAA club had already been formed and it refused to budge." 89.101.41.216 (talk) 21:02, 28 February 2013 (UTC)