John and Jennifer Claffey from Colorado are on their honeymoon in Ireland and stopped off in Shannonbridge last evening. John was showing his new bride where The Claffey Family once lived in Shannonbridge. His grandfather was Mike Claffey who once lived on Prices Lane in what was afterwards turned into a workshop by the late Leslie Price. While living there Mike Claffey built a new house further down Price's Lane near the turn off point for the walk used by Moby on Sunday. The ruins of the house are still standing. The Claffey family moved to Turraun around 1940 and Mike's son Sean emigrated and worked in America but has now returned home and often calls to see old friends in Shannonbridge. John is a son of Sean.
See where Prices Lane is getting a facelift this morning. Glad to see the stone at the corner has not been moved. At the mouth of the road to the power plant a pedestrian crossing and yellow lollypops has been erected and yellow lines have been painted on the road in front of the church.The crossing means one has to walk about ten yards towards the power plant to access it from the river side. The lollypop support on the church side looks to be in an unfriendly position and last week a car was badly damaged when it hit the pole.
Terry Archibald and his wife and the next two generations of Archibalds have been revisiting Shannonbridge for the past few days.Terry and Mary plan to come back in September for their usual fishing holiday. Terry would want to improve as his grandson Bob caught twice as much fish as he did yesterday. His son in law works at websites and computers for a living and threatened to look at this site when he returns home and give us a good look over and maybe ideas.