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Michael Joseph Howley was born in Oranmore in 1895. His father died when Joe was just two years old. His mother was a sister of Peter Rabbitt, the proprietor of Rabbitt’s provision shop, licensed premises, and lodgings in Forster Street. She later married William Keane, the owner of Keane’s Bar in Oranmore. Joe, as he was popularly known, attended the local primary school and later went to the Bish in Galway. He obviously worked at farming as his mother once wrote, “He made a good lot with trading with cattle and sheep”.

A night of terror filled tales and scary stories of ghoulish sitings along the coast road into Oranmore and haunted happenings in Ardrahan, will be told around the fire in the front bar of Keane’s Pub, Oranmore, this evening at 8.30pm.