Around New Inn & Knockgraffon / compiled and edited by Eileen Bell.

Published 2003. Physical description: 120 p. : photos. ; 30 cm.

Fr. Meehan, P.P. who introduced the publication. He wrote: “The people of this community should be forever grateful to Eileen Bell for this monumental work involving over three years of careful research from all available sources. It was indeed a labour of love for Eileen.”

The book brings together a wealth of information on the history of the parish, illustrated by a great selection of photographs, the compiling of which must have been painstaking in the extreme. While the text tells us much on the history of places this collection reveals to us the faces of the people who lived there.

Eileen sourced information on many of the famous people who came from New Inn. Dorothea Herbert of Glebe House is featured and her unrequited love of Rockwell owner, John Roe. World high jump champion of 1895, James M. Ryan of Ballyslateen appears in a handsome picture. Dan Breen’s on-the-run sojourn in Glenegat House is mentioned and Pat Cleary, of early G.A.A. prominence, is outlined.
Eileen updated the book in 2003 because she was ‘inundated with requests to do a follow-up’, but also because she had collected further information on the parish, in particular ‘the Halloran story’.