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HISTROY OF THE GUILEEN PUB
19?? to 1931
Mary and Michael Wafer passed away — still being researched. Mary Ellen and Michael Ryan inherited what was then known as -the ‘Serious Drinkers Pub' to distinguish it from Willie and Mollie Hegarty's flakily Pub' down by the strand.
Michael was tall and thin while Mary Ellen was Tory portly indeed. It was commented that whoa they stood side by side they looked like the number 10. It was outside Ryan's Pub that people would congregate for surely if anything were about to happen in the village it would most certainly start from there.
Mary Ellen was very popular with the patrons and loved to swim. On warm summer afternoons she would be surrounded by the local children on the strand or in the water. Sadly she had no children of her own.
Mary Ellen passed away on 19 February 1931 (43) and Michael Ryan sold the Pub shortly afterwards, remained in the area, married a Miss Stevens and had two daughters.
1931 to 1932
Coughlan of Ballinacurra . The Pub then had a corrugated iron roof.
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