Rural Garda Duties in Ballycroy, Co. Mayo, Ireland 1973

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  • @seanflynn5830
    @seanflynn5830 2 роки тому +100

    The funeral shown in this footage is that of my Great Grandfather, Peter Leneghan. Many thanks for sharing.

    • @markcantemail8018
      @markcantemail8018 2 роки тому +8

      Sean It is Amazing to be able to see his Funeral all these years Later .

    • @seanflynn5830
      @seanflynn5830 2 роки тому +6

      @@markcantemail8018 my brother slowed down the footage, as the funeral was going through the Church gates, and we found my Grandmother walking past. It was a, great find.

    • @seanflynn5830
      @seanflynn5830 2 роки тому +4

      @@markcantemail8018 are you related to the Leneghan family too?

    • @rockyzrockyx917
      @rockyzrockyx917 2 роки тому +3

      R.I.P. Peter Leneghan.

    • @markcantemail8018
      @markcantemail8018 2 роки тому +4

      @@seanflynn5830 That is Wonderful , seeing this footage is what gets Me . My Mother last year saw a Photo of Her Grandmother for the first Time . She died before 1920 and the Photo was a Family Gathering with about a Hundred people . I could recognize my Grand mother and Her Sister shown as Teenagers . My Mother was Thrilled to see the Image of Her Grandmother . I am not a Relative . I know some of my Relatives were from the Wexford area . Yes it is a Great Find !

  • @gerardleahy6946
    @gerardleahy6946 2 роки тому +11

    Your videos are treasures and play a huge role in the preservation of our history and heritage.

  • @niamhne8046
    @niamhne8046 3 роки тому +78

    This is such a lovely channel. It makes me think to what life would have been for my grandparents, their parents and also my dad. Thank you

    • @fergal2424
      @fergal2424 3 роки тому +5

      Imagine how crazy Ireland is to them and their generation now.

    • @discoveryman59
      @discoveryman59 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah it was MUCH better than today! Believe me!!

  • @HollywoodandHeffron
    @HollywoodandHeffron Рік тому +1

    Fr Boland. Lovely man. These are great glimpses of past lives.

  • @goldilocks913
    @goldilocks913 2 роки тому +22

    No stab vests and a bandalero of weapons. What a change- and the wonderful Honda cub made it a joy for me!

    • @Patmofar
      @Patmofar 2 роки тому +5

      The unbreakable and unbeatable Honda Cub, the greatest motorbike ever made. 100,000,000 made and still counting.

  • @amongstourowntheinniskeas5152
    @amongstourowntheinniskeas5152 2 роки тому +8

    I met this gentleman Garda Chambers back around that time c.1973 . Kevin 'Delia' Monaghan and I were on our way to Achill on Kevins motorbike.
    for a week of fun.We stopped at Clearys in Ballycroy and we got talking to this gent in the bar. He was not in uniform and we got drinking together but he then told me he was the local Garda so i told we 'were in good hands so'.In the mean time who would call in but Tommy Garrett from Glosh Tower and he had the accordian with him. Tommy was on holidays from England with his wife who is a Ballycroy lady. The session and craic began and it was continued in Mulranny that night and Garda Chambers said he 'ed be there and he was.
    Kevin and my self continued on to Achill the next day but that is another story. Garda Chambers was nice jovial fellow.

  • @annagilda1
    @annagilda1 3 роки тому +24

    So amazing to see, my Granny is from Mulranny and although she moved away, we've spent so much time as a family in Ballycroy and Newport. So wonderful to get a snapshot of the time and to hear of some familiar names that I've heard stories of, but never had the opportunity to meet.

  • @CC856
    @CC856 3 роки тому +30

    2:52 the man taking his hat off beside the Guard is my Great Grandfather.

  • @martinmoran89
    @martinmoran89 3 роки тому +16

    Absolutely love this channel and all your uploads, this one especially as my Mum is from Ballycroy and many summers I spent down here at my Grandparents house.

    • @alanodonnell4788
      @alanodonnell4788 3 роки тому +3

      My mum came from Ballycroy to she has seven brothers and sisters. And one of her sisters my aunt is Rose Conway Walsh the TD.

  • @BodyGuardOfLies1
    @BodyGuardOfLies1 2 роки тому +7

    My mother is from Mayo but she had already been in England for a decade when this was filmed.

  • @marykategraham.205
    @marykategraham.205 3 роки тому +35

    """I'm from Belmullet In Co. Mayo on the wild majestic Atlantic Coast Line. Your video CR'S---- is Beautiful - the mountains- Bogs- is steeped in our tragic History but we survived thanks to Our Creator..""" Diá dháoibh agus Béannácht -Léat---...🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

    • @newyorkwanderer3290
      @newyorkwanderer3290 3 роки тому +5

      Greetings from New York City.

    • @clario2178
      @clario2178 3 роки тому +7

      And from Birmingham

    • @tomasofaolain3117
      @tomasofaolain3117 3 роки тому +5

      Greetings from South Carolina

    • @clario2178
      @clario2178 3 роки тому +2

      @@tomasofaolain3117 nice one Tomas

    • @clario2178
      @clario2178 3 роки тому +7

      @@newyorkwanderer3290 Hi mate ,used to play Gaelic in Bay Ridge down by Verresona bridge .

  • @mickosullivan3827
    @mickosullivan3827 3 роки тому +65

    Country Folk had more fear of the Priest than any other authority.

    • @charlesdickens6706
      @charlesdickens6706 3 роки тому +3

      Is the double-entendre intended ?

    • @marylynch951
      @marylynch951 3 роки тому +3

      They used to

    • @marylynch951
      @marylynch951 3 роки тому

      @@terryboot7777 absolutely agree 100 %

    • @jamesurquhart1142
      @jamesurquhart1142 3 роки тому +4

      Justifiably so, a number were tyrants and serial sexual and physical abusers.

    • @missadda8890
      @missadda8890 3 роки тому +2

      They sold what everyone wanted desperately eternal salvation.

  • @judymanning2538
    @judymanning2538 3 роки тому +26

    Lovely country 🍀

  • @brigitnunez6735
    @brigitnunez6735 2 роки тому +2

    Great video thanks for sharing. Love it.

  • @johnbrett8788
    @johnbrett8788 2 роки тому +5

    Great upload and narrated by the late great cathal o Shannon.

  • @johncronin1082
    @johncronin1082 2 роки тому +6

    love the sound of the turf being cut

  • @alanodonnell4788
    @alanodonnell4788 3 роки тому +10

    I live in County Mayo I'm a 23 year old man who is living with his family. And I work at this Shellfish Farm called Sofi Shellfish Ltd. It's a place where oysters are sorted. And it's runned by two joint managers who are a married couple and French to. It's hard working there and I don't get payed that much. But that is my first job in life. And I'm thinking about what I'll do in the future. Like when I get to my 30's I'll be a middle aged by then. I'll resign from my job buy a place of my own to live in. Like in anther part of Ireland or in anther Country. And I can try and get a new job or go to College.

    • @wilfredwilde161
      @wilfredwilde161 3 роки тому +4

      Alan,You'll still be a young guy in your thirties.Small places make you feel old before your time .Its only when you get into your fifties that big changes happen with fitness levels and recovery rates etc.
      Get away from those two you are working for .You're young ,they know it and are working the fk out of you it sounds .

    • @Kevin-rw4yw
      @Kevin-rw4yw 2 роки тому +3

      30 is still very young. Find what you love to do. Life goes fast.

  • @jayd1974
    @jayd1974 3 роки тому +15

    Nice part of da world 👍I had a grand uncle who was a garda on Achill in da 60’s

  • @DevRSVR
    @DevRSVR 3 роки тому +11

    God be with the days.

  • @gregoryhamblett9071
    @gregoryhamblett9071 3 роки тому +21

    Great bit of history. I know he was a gardener! At a glance, of him signing the Dole Cards.. lol

  • @andyarmstrong1493
    @andyarmstrong1493 3 роки тому +17

    Different time, different world.

  • @freemindthinkerezrapound5071
    @freemindthinkerezrapound5071 2 роки тому +15

    They were rich in more ways than they knew, Growing Your own vegetables cutting your very own turf catching fish, very little of the poisonous processed food that everyone eats today

    • @schmittyconstanz
      @schmittyconstanz Рік тому +2

      And thinking not shaped by social media .Books were held in high esteem.

    • @noelfleming3567
      @noelfleming3567 2 місяці тому +1

      So very true what a lovely country we had look at d state of it now 😢

  • @78bollox
    @78bollox 3 роки тому +39

    I'd take him over any of the handbags on duty in Dublin these days

    • @rerite2
      @rerite2 3 роки тому +6

      -- "handbags"....LOL, I fell off my chair, Jaysus help me, laughing til I cry.

    • @marylynch951
      @marylynch951 3 роки тому +1

      Lol

    • @wilfredwilde161
      @wilfredwilde161 3 роки тому +2

      All they do is get decent people in trouble

    • @celticdodge5282
      @celticdodge5282 2 роки тому +3

      This is true, here in Dublin you will see them drive by open drug dealing, assualts etc and do nothing. While they harrass average Joe soaps on their way back from work for going a couple of Kms over the speed limit.

  • @gulfstream7235
    @gulfstream7235 3 роки тому +17

    lots of unemployment but very little crime back then.....

    • @Munklers
      @Munklers 3 роки тому +1

      Less disparity. Most people were in the same boat, also in that area everyone knew everyone.

    • @alanodonnell4788
      @alanodonnell4788 3 роки тому

      My Aunt is Rose Conway Walsh the TD. She was born in Ballycroy and she lives in Bellmullet. I did give her idea's and plan's on how to help Ireland and it's people and idea's for the future. And many of the idea's is about bringing loads of work and employment to Ireland.

  • @choctaw6838
    @choctaw6838 3 роки тому +13

    A legend!!

  • @charleswalsh9895
    @charleswalsh9895 3 роки тому +4

    My grandfather came from Mayo, Castlebar

  • @sherp2u1
    @sherp2u1 2 роки тому +3

    He might have felt bored and lonely at times, but that man probably didn't know how lucky he was...The only Garda around for 40 miles, who is going to bother you...? LOL"

  • @khiggins7231
    @khiggins7231 Рік тому +2

    That Guard would had a contract that would have allowed him to retire up to 63 years. He wouldn’t be far off that at the time of filming. If he joined when he was in his early twenties I would have been around the early 1930s.

  • @braille5575
    @braille5575 3 роки тому +22

    Not a mosque in sight

    • @burntbacon7995
      @burntbacon7995 3 роки тому +4

      True. How's Islam working out in Europe?

    • @braille5575
      @braille5575 3 роки тому +6

      @@burntbacon7995 Not very well.

    • @rerite2
      @rerite2 3 роки тому

      -- Are there minarets in IRL? I understand that Switzerland outlawed them not too long ago.

    • @feidhlimidhmacanaltha3644
      @feidhlimidhmacanaltha3644 3 роки тому

      The mosque was in Ballyhaunis sure.

    • @davekeating.
      @davekeating. 3 роки тому

      Can't see much on a cloudy day...

  • @herculesv1.247
    @herculesv1.247 3 роки тому +17

    Hands like baseball mitts on that guard @ 2.07

  • @whitetim1835
    @whitetim1835 3 роки тому +12

    a day in the bog good exercise

  • @Team-fabulous
    @Team-fabulous 3 роки тому +5

    I'm sure old Garda Tom has long since shuffled of this moral coil...

  • @ClaudioBenassi
    @ClaudioBenassi 3 роки тому +2

    This is the man from the future.

  • @df289
    @df289 3 роки тому +9

    Never to be lived or seen again

    • @michaelf4506
      @michaelf4506 3 роки тому +1

      Never say never

    • @alanodonnell4788
      @alanodonnell4788 3 роки тому

      That was nearly 50 years ago and a lot has changed since then. The 70's was the age of disco and dancing. The Vietnam War coming to an end and The Muppet Show.

  • @charliekavanagh1217
    @charliekavanagh1217 3 роки тому +6

    My little Honda 50 she's rapid and she's nifty

    • @jayd1974
      @jayd1974 3 роки тому +1

      Great song by Seamus Moore🇮🇪👍

  • @richardgiles2484
    @richardgiles2484 2 роки тому +3

    When life was simple but hard and much safer times when you leave your doors unlocked and walk home in the dark 👍

  • @pagantree
    @pagantree 3 роки тому +11

    I'd love to see more Shrimping

  • @dianastevenson131
    @dianastevenson131 2 роки тому +1

    Such a wonderful world before computers dehumanised us. How much nicer it was.

  • @georgel74
    @georgel74 3 роки тому +16

    Rapid reaction cop..
    The normal copper is on a pushbike.. 👮😁

  • @robg71
    @robg71 2 роки тому +1

    He was the police officer who found Mr Bensons Whistle.

  • @malcolmmoffat2108
    @malcolmmoffat2108 2 роки тому +4

    Not anymore same as England those days are gone.⚰️

  • @jimfreyne
    @jimfreyne 3 роки тому +5

    And what is so esoteric about not buying food from tesco.

  • @haeuptlingaberja4927
    @haeuptlingaberja4927 3 роки тому +3

    We're all hunting the great red shrimp in our own ways.

  • @ciatangallaghe2485
    @ciatangallaghe2485 3 роки тому +6

    Nice Honda 50

    • @rahan9886
      @rahan9886 3 роки тому +1

      Four stroke?

    • @ciatangallaghe2485
      @ciatangallaghe2485 3 роки тому

      I don't have a clue

    • @timber8403
      @timber8403 3 роки тому

      A nifty fifty ...

    • @Captain_Lockheed
      @Captain_Lockheed 3 роки тому

      @@rahan9886 yes, it's a four stroke. Very collectable here in the uk. Take a look on ebay, they fetch silly money.

    • @johnniethepom2905
      @johnniethepom2905 3 роки тому

      @@rahan9886 The Honda C50 , C70 and C90 were 4 stroke engines . Yamaha made a similar style ' step thru ' but they were a two stroke .

  • @gaughantony
    @gaughantony 8 місяців тому

    From a Mayo family and my aunt is from Ballycroy

  • @eyeconphotographyandproduction
    @eyeconphotographyandproduction 2 роки тому +1

    ♥️💚♥️💚

  • @cbrider726
    @cbrider726 8 місяців тому

    The typical Honda 50 . Now that little bike if worth 20x what it cost new . Great stream. 👍👍👍This is back in the day that the local was the law .lol Pitty we cant go back to those days . it would be much safer for us all. 👍👍👍Now in Rural Ireland everynight is a worry .Not like back then . No one locked there doors or cars . Bring back our local cops and put a stop to our crime wave.

  • @jimfreyne
    @jimfreyne 3 роки тому +6

    The west British accent of the the narrators makes one wonder if our independence may only have been an illusion. God bless the country folk.

    • @johngilmore6688
      @johngilmore6688 3 роки тому +19

      He can't help the accent of an educated man.
      He's Irish, not English.

    • @tonemc6047
      @tonemc6047 3 роки тому +1

      We are beyond the pale and thank God.

    • @johngilmore6688
      @johngilmore6688 3 роки тому +2

      @@FolkloreIreland
      Few people might understand a broad Dublin or Clare accent. lol

    • @gilactico
      @gilactico 3 роки тому +12

      @@johngilmore6688 and a fine TV presenter he was. Rip Cathal ó Shannann.

    • @dechannigan2980
      @dechannigan2980 3 роки тому +4

      Lovely clear Irish accent

  • @123malichi
    @123malichi 2 роки тому

    Convoys and McAndrews here of Rathmorgan and Ederglen .....Bangor Erris Co Mayo

  • @noelmaher4633
    @noelmaher4633 3 роки тому +4

    Tom, will you come up to HQ, were doing Jerursalema...Get the F="".....

  • @CosmicTurbo949
    @CosmicTurbo949 3 роки тому +1

    Where is the presenter from? I've never heard an accent like that.

    • @DevRSVR
      @DevRSVR 3 роки тому +1

      Trans Atlantic/North county Dublin I feel. Quite manufactured.

    • @davekeating.
      @davekeating. 3 роки тому +6

      @@DevRSVR There was nothing manufactured about Cathal O’Shannon…

    • @ctmac9404
      @ctmac9404 3 роки тому

      no truer words spoken. I disliked him for his service in the British army, but there was nothing fake about Cathal O Shannon.

  • @patrickball2493
    @patrickball2493 Рік тому

    Signing dole cards ! . I remember the guards doing that , No longer do it though. Stopped in the late 90s .

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 3 місяці тому

    No crimes were committed in Ballycroy, or the surrounding areas of Co. Mayo, Ireland between the 5th of September 1950 and the 30th of August 1973, the local Garda had nothing to do but put on their finest pure white cotton shirts, fancy full wool uniform, hand made leather boots, cap and silk tie and then walk around town for few short minutes two times each day with their hand clasped behind their backs looking like the local headmaster, when they returned back to their barracks after their walk on the wind side then they would copy on the Beetles John George, Ringo and Pauls signatures on to club members cards and post them off to fans all around Ireland, the UK and Japan

  • @margaretnesbeth593
    @margaretnesbeth593 2 роки тому

    Is that big house just for 2 Guardi, is it still there, it's the same with priest house, one rural priest one big house.

  • @UFOUAPMagnet
    @UFOUAPMagnet 3 роки тому

    Everyone else directed here from Hardy Bucks?

    • @patfraser3869
      @patfraser3869 3 роки тому

      Nobody

    • @jayd1974
      @jayd1974 3 роки тому

      I actually know one of daHardy Bucks very funny

  • @lindahughes4409
    @lindahughes4409 3 роки тому +1

    Signing on day

  • @bristolfashion4421
    @bristolfashion4421 2 роки тому

    they operate the machine they never think beyond the next change then they see that there is no more we are all at the end we fizzle and twitch and jerk then the 'roach and the rat do pick our dried and dessicated corpses clean - blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth, innit...

  • @brianfitzpatrick9949
    @brianfitzpatrick9949 2 роки тому

    Brian Lacken is actually a native of mayo

  • @johnmcentegart007
    @johnmcentegart007 2 роки тому

    The University of Texas was here.

  • @hugostiglitz6914
    @hugostiglitz6914 2 роки тому

    His job was more like a mayor than a policeman!

  • @James_BAlert
    @James_BAlert 2 роки тому

    I see nobody so far is claiming that's their grandfather or father getting their welfare papers stamped in the Garda barracks.....just wondering why one of the fellows in that particular queue didn't ask the RTE camera man to have their backs to the camera and not be on the box later that night? Maybe they did!
    Yes there was crime in his beat, it was behind closed doors a lot of it, with others there was 'local' justice, again with other crime the Gardai decided to dispense out the justice!🤔

  • @paulkielty3800
    @paulkielty3800 2 роки тому

    Honda 90 the chariot of the gods.

  • @charlesdickens6706
    @charlesdickens6706 3 роки тому +1

    .....I heard word conception used instead of concept. I think concept and perception got confused after a stay at the local . For sure Ireland is also famous for it's perception on conception . . . .The rubber on the car's foot pedals is a touch worn .It's however all in keeping with the intended zeitgeist. Anyway I glue sandpaper on my pedals for extra safety .

    • @michaelf4506
      @michaelf4506 3 роки тому +1

      Never heard it called a pedal before haha

  • @madcarew5168
    @madcarew5168 2 роки тому +1

    Father Jack's escaped again!!

  • @falihsaukhan5365
    @falihsaukhan5365 3 роки тому

    0:47 remind me of super cub anime lol

  • @jimmcfarlane5611
    @jimmcfarlane5611 2 роки тому

    Is this Heartbeat?

  • @residentevil8893
    @residentevil8893 2 роки тому +1

    Idk how they police without guns not evan a pistol

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 9 місяців тому

    The Garda in Rural areas or in other words Speed kIngs, Pothole water splashers, Showoffs, Know it alls, Man about town, Sheep stealers, Cattle rustlers, Potin drinkers, Protection gangs, Money launders, Band and post office robbers, Nosey parkers, Bossy boots, Men not in charge, Traffic diverts, well dressed men in suites, Beer drinkers, Smokers and many others. Or have I got all this wrong

  • @CliftonHicksbanjo
    @CliftonHicksbanjo 3 роки тому +3

    AGAB

  • @u.s.militia7682
    @u.s.militia7682 3 роки тому +1

    I guess color film hadn’t quite made it over there yet.

  • @coliekeane1463
    @coliekeane1463 3 роки тому

    No

  • @ifyouvote.5005
    @ifyouvote.5005 2 роки тому +2

    Don't be fooled these people are british and proud.

    • @odonnchada9994
      @odonnchada9994 2 роки тому +3

      Lol 😆 ☘🇮🇪

    • @patrickball2493
      @patrickball2493 Рік тому

      Everyone in ROI associate being British as being English and hence being from England only not Wales as they are Welsh , not Scotland as they are Scottish , not Northern Ireland as they are Irish .

  • @Del-yv1qy
    @Del-yv1qy 3 роки тому

    Plenty of lay abouts around then as well.

    • @johnniethepom2905
      @johnniethepom2905 3 роки тому +5

      That's not very fair . Mostly the farms had been split up in small parcels of land and generally afforded a meagre existence . With large families being the norm , lot of the young people emigrated at the first opportunity .
      My Grandfather walked to Dublin and caught the ferry to Holyhead . Then he walked to Surrey looking for work ( where he met my Grandmother ) . This was mid 1920's . He worked all his life . The last four generations of our tribe has emigrated somewhere for a better life . Lazy we are not !

  • @Mack-bc3sp
    @Mack-bc3sp 6 місяців тому

    By christ that honda brings back happy memories