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| Cornelius J. Sheehan Memorial |
This memorial is carved of marble on a limestone base
by Molloy of Dungarvan & Callan. It has the following inscription:
Erected by
Cornelius J. Sheehan
In memory of his
beloved wife, Catherine (Nee Landers)
Died 15 February
1920 aged 76 years.
The above Cornelius
J. Sheehan Died 12 March 1923 aged 78 years.
His son Patrick
Joseph Died 16 March 1932 aged 43 years.
John Sheehan died 20 May 1943.
Cornelius ran the celebrated woollen mill at
Ballinamuck, Dungarvan and had a shop at 22 Grattan Square which sold the
tweeds he produced. According to the 1911 census he was a native of Co.
Limerick and his wife Kate (Catherine) was from Co. Waterford. The following children are listed:
Dora (aged 22), Shop Assistant; John (aged 21), Wool
Spinner; Lena (aged 20), Shop Assistant; Patrick (aged 19), Factory Accountant;
Cornelius (aged 18), Wool Spinner.
Cornelius had a Woollen Mill at Kilbeheny near Mitchelstown
which he sold in November 1887 and moved to Dungarvan. The Dungarvan business was a success for a
period winning medals and certs at exhibitions such as: the Countess of
Cadogan’s Irish textile Exhibition held in Dublin in 1897; Glasgow International
Exhibition 1901; the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, 1904, and the
Irish International Exhibition held in Dublin in 1907.
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| Woollen Mill |
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| Cornelius J. Sheehan shop front |
His obituary in the Waterford News of 23 March
noted that he died unexpectedly: ‘For many years he had been contractor for woolen
goods to several establishments in the South. He was a man of the highest probity, an
exemplary liver, and a devout Catholic’. The Mill was sold in 1937.
Waterford County Museum has a small archive on the
firm including tweed samples, photos, account books etc. donated by Miss Nell
Cullinane.
