Olive Breen nee Dier, Co Wexford

johnny_doyle

Olive Breen nee Dier passed away earlier this year aged 109.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/our-oldest-person-dies-just-days-before-turning-110-2884097.html

A couple of news papers mentioned that she lost a brother Richard in WW1 so decided to follow up.

He's in the 1911 census aged 18

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Wexford/Clonroche/Clonroche/676928/


Found him on CWGC as having served/died with the Canadians

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1567198

Attestation paper confirms from Wexford

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-119.02-e.php?image_url=http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc002/291780a.gif&id_nbr=355066

Her father, James Richard Dier JP, appears to have bought Castleboro House in 1917 only for it to be burnt down in 1923 by the IRA

http://www.nobodyhome.ie/33ch/castleborohouse.html

http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/Surveys/Buildings/BuildingoftheMonth/Archive/Name,853,en.html

JohnDier

James Dier, my great grandfather didn't by Castleboro, he bought Coolbawn from the Bruin family in Oakpark in Carlow. Coolbawn was the Bruin family country retreat. It was one of three farms he intended pass on to his three sons. Coolbawn was passed to Bob, possibly meant to have gone to Dick. Clonroche House went to my grandfather Sam. Sculabogue was the third but as Dick was killed, was sold to the Watchorn family, his relatives by marriage, Eliza was a Watchorn. He had a farm in Kilgibbon in Bree of his own as well. Coolbawn was burned down during the civil war, an apology was issued by the IRA later as the house was burned "by mistake". The land in Coolbawn still remains in his descendants hands, as does the house in Clonroche, the land there having been sold.