Loup & District Historical Society meeting and talk at 8 pm

The next meeting of the Loup & District Historical Society is scheduled for Thursday, 30th January 2020 in St Patrick’s GAC, Loup at 8 pm.

Aidan Fee will talk about Marcus Costello who originated from the area.

Marcus Costello was a native of Tamlaght parish. Born at the beginning of the nineteenth century in Ballymoyle townland, he went to school in Coagh, entered Trinity College Dublin and qualified as a barrister in 1830. He was Daniel O'Connell's deputy at a time when the Liberator was leading the movement to repeal the Act of Union and to restore an Irish Parliament to Dublin.