In 1887, Connell Cannon, cattle-dealer, Donegal, was listed as a subscriber to the Gweedore Prisoners Fair Relief Fund. Clipping below from the Derry Journal, 24 April 1889: Continue reading

This advertisement from the Freeman’s Journal of 16 April 1889 records Connell Cannon, cattle-dealer, of Main Street, Donegal, as one of the executors and trustees of Patrick McLaughlin, farmer, late of Castlemurray, otherwise Bahan Near, in the County of Donegal. Continue reading

The efforts of Connell Cannon, cattle-dealer, Donegal, to secure a decent railway service for the county, continued into 1887, when he appeared as a witness before the Railway Commission in Londonderry. In his evidence to the Commission, he refers to… Continue reading

The Londonderry Standard, 22 July 1884, records evidence given by Connell Cannon, cattle-dealer and grazier in Donegal Town, originally of Drimkeelan, in support of an extension of the West Donegal Railway from Druminin to Donegal Town. Although Connell felt that… Continue reading

By now the families of Patrick Cannon, farmer, of Drimkeelan, Mountcharles, County Donegal, and his brother Connell Cannon, cattle-dealer, of Donegal town, were starting to grow up, and newspaper reports contain occasional references to the presence of the new generation… Continue reading

The Derry Journal of 19th February 1883 reports brothers Patrick Cannon, farmer, of Drimkeelan, Mountcharles, Donegal and Connell Cannon, now a cattle dealer in Donegal Town, as both having attended, on 11th February 1883, the funeral of Nathaniel Scott of… Continue reading

Back in Drimkeelan, Mountcharles, Donegal, Connell Cannon’s brother Patrick was running the family farm. The Derry Journal of 27th January 1882 records Patrick as a subscriber to a testimonial in memory of the late Father Doherty. In a separate notice,… Continue reading