Let me take you back to Feenagh as it was in days of yore if you had a sow with a problem, Tom Hayes was the man with the boar
Dan Meehan was the cycle agent, the harness maker was Jim Gayer Brassil’s had a grocer shop, a pub and a little hardware
Griffins also had a pub as well as flour and meal Mick Long and Jack Bresnihan worked the Forge craftsmen’s in iron and steel
Tom Chawke was the local butcher, so you always had meat on your plate people would meet at night and talk at the chapel gate
Sextons had a joinery as well as a grocer shop they even had a dance-hall if you ever fancied a hop
O’Grady’s too had a pub, some people might call it a bar Reynolds’s had a shop and a garage, petrol pumps and a hackney car
Trehy’s had a shop and Mulcahy’s before them as well next door Mrs Mac had a drapery with her assistant Katie O’Dell
Dan Egan was a tradesman of outstanding fame Ned Kiely was the tailor who resided down the lane
Power’s owned the Post Office, a long established family and not forgetting the school house across the road from the library
Out the road was Neenan’s shop and Tom Meehan’s Motor Trade situated near the Creamery where butter and cheese was made
Further up in Highmount you needn’t go hungry to bed you could always call to Tierney’s to buy a loaf of bread
The Postman’s hut was down the lane very neat and compact and if you wanted insurance cover, Paddy McCarthy was the man to contact
There were a few haulage contractors who would shift almost anything John Sexton and Paddy Murrihy and later came Jack Flynn
If the sole was leaving the upper or you were feeling down at heel Jack Spratt or Willie Roche would put you back on an even keel
I remember the Feenagh Races and the pictures in Reynolds Hall and when the carnival came to Ned Long’s field it was the greatest attraction of all
Now I will finish my story, that’s as far back as I can go I hope someone can go back before me, and tell us what they know
By: Jim Moloney