Edmund Concanon
Edmund Concanon was Irish solicitor and town commissioner from 1816 to 1902.[1]
Concanon was reputedly descended from the kings of Uí Díarmata.<fact|date=October 2020|date=October 2020] By the 18th century their property was much reduced, and they converted from Catholicism to the established Protestant church.<fact|date=October 2020|date=October 2020] In this way they held onto the remnant of the property in the parish of Killascobe; Concanon's father named the family home "Waterloo" in commemoration of Wellington's victory.<fact|date=October 2020|date=October 2020]
Because he was a younger son, Concanon did not inherit the family property. He gained employment at the ecclesiastical court of Archbishop Trench in Tuam. In time he acquired properties himself around the town. He set up business as a land agent at The Mall in the early 1850s and within ten years began practising in the local courts. In this capacity, he defended the Fenian, Michael Fahy, in 1865.<who?|date=October 2020] He was also a defence solicitor in the Maamtrasna murders case in 1882.[2]
He married a Roman Catholic, Catherine Parsons of Dublin. The first child was baptised as a Catholic, but the following nine were raised Protestant.<fact|date=October 2020|date=October 2020]
Concanon was a member of the town's cricket club (the town ran two teams), spoke Irish and was a noted step-dancer.<fact|date=May 2020|date=May 2020] On his death he was interred in the family vault at Killascobe.<fact|date=October 2020|date=October 2020]
References
- ↑ Claffey, Tony (1992). "Edmund Concannon, 1816-1902". The Great Tuam Annual 3.
- ↑ "About Us". conmeagher.ie. Concanon & Meagher Solicitors. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
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