The premises were first mentioned in a lease from Charles William Bury to John Shaw in 1790. It became a brewery in 1805 when Richard Deverell acquired the property. The ownership changed again, i.e. to George Wilkinson, a baker, in the 1850s.
Michael McGinn (1879-1973) bought the premises in 1920 from the widow Brophy under whose ownership a pub was run by the Keeney family. McGinn was from Mountmellick and managed a D. E. Williams grocery shop there before he bought the pub in Tullamore. He continued the pub trade and also operated a bakery and a grocery on the premises. The licence was transferred in 1967 to his son Philip McGinn who renovated the pub in 1978 and changed the grocery part to an off-licence in 1980.
Father Provincial: 25 July 1968-9 March 1975
Neil Francis McDermott was born 16 July 1925 in North Dublin, Ireland. He married Barbara Elizabeth Tobias (1924-1996) in March of 1952, in North Dublin. They had six children. Neil Francis McDermott died 20 April 1989, in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
Barbara Elizabeth Tobias, eldest daughter of Theodore Cronhelm Tobias (1876-1959) and Eileen Muriel Smith (1886-1984), was born on 16 August 1924 in Clonskeagh, Dublin. She married Neil Francis McDermott (1925-1989) in North Dublin during March 1952. They had six children. Barbara Elizabeth McDermott died 11 October 1996 in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
John Bothwell McCutcheon, eldest son of Reverend Oliver McCutcheon (1826-1895) and Jane Tobias (1835-1914), was born 10 February 1861 in Bandon, County Cork. He married Mary Carty (1869-1948) on 23 August 1889 at Sandymount Methodist Church in Dublin. They had five children: John Cecil McCutcheon (1891-1916); Mary Olive McCutcheon (1896-1984); Phyllis Margaret McCutcheon (1902-1996); Oliver William McCutcheon (1905-1960); and Frances Lillian Joan McCutcheon (1911-1987). John Bothwell McCutcheon died 19 November 1953 in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Jane Tobias, eldest daughter of Reverend James Tobias (1803-1882) and Mary anne Rowe (1813-1881), was born 23 March 1835 in County Wexford. She married Reverend Oliver McCutcheon on 16 June 1857 in Drogheda, County Meath. They had eight children: Marion McCutcheon (1858-1959); Marian Rowe McCutcheon (1860-1865); John Bothwell McCutcheon (1861-1953); James Tobias McCutcheon (1865-1857); Jane Tobias McCutcheon (1869-1959); Oliver McCutcheon (1870-1950); Margaret Elizabeth McCutcheon (1874-1948); and Katharine Sarah Howard McCutcheon (1876-1956). Jane McCutcheon died on 31 October 1914 in Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland. She was buried in Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland.
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