Lahardaun, commonly written Lahardane, has made public remembrance a central part of village life through its Titanic memorials and Father Conroy cross.
Illustration, Addergoole Titanic Memorial Park, Lahardane, County Mayo
⊕Recorded locationLahardaun54.03259° N · 9.32307° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
Leathardán· Irish · main form · validated name
Lahardaun· English · main form
Lahardane· English · main form · local name
Place & story
The Addergoole Fourteen
Fourteen people from Addergoole parish travelled aboard Titanic in 1912; eleven died and three survived. Lahardane’s Titanic Society placed a memorial plaque in Saint Patrick’s church in 2002 and began an annual bell-ringing commemoration. Descendants helped develop the events and permanent memorials. The village’s association with the disaster therefore concerns emigrants from the surrounding parish, remembered together through names, home townlands and surviving family connections.[2]
A memorial built from home and departure
The Addergoole Titanic Memorial Park opened in April 2012. Its bronze ship’s bow faces figures dressed as early twentieth-century emigrants. A recreated cottage hearth incorporates stone from the passengers’ ruined homes, and a door came from James Flynn’s house. A lighted gable window evokes both the homes people left and a welcome for returning emigrants. The park places the domestic experience of departure beside the scale of the ship and its loss.[2]
The Titanic windows
Two memorial windows were installed in Saint Patrick’s church in 2011 for the approaching centenary. Local artist Michael Coleman designed Emigration and The Titanic Rescue, and Art Glass in Derry constructed them. Descendants of the three survivors funded the rescue window; relatives of those who died supported the emigration window. These contemporary works stand beside an earlier Clarke Studio window, linking different generations of stained-glass craftsmanship within the same church.[3]
People & connections
Michael Timony’s tribute to Father Conroy
Irish-language author Michael Timony paid for the Celtic cross erected in Lahardane in 1937 to commemorate Father Andrew Conroy. The Addergoole parish priest had been hanged in Castlebar after the 1798 rebellion for his association with Humbert’s forces. An account of the unveiling records an eighteen-foot limestone cross and an Irish-language oration. Timony’s gift gave the village a lasting monument to a figure remembered locally for language, education and the rebellion.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Lahardane — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
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Lahardane, Mayo
Published census settlement populations
178people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
Addergoole Titanic Memorial Park, Lahardane, County Mayo illustration: based on a Lahardane: Addergoole Titanic Memorial Park (2) by Pamela Norrington. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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