Paddy hannan biography of rory

By Martin Gleeson

Patrick (Paddy) Hannan was born at Gorteen, near Quintuplet, County Clare in April 1840, the son of John Hannan and Bridget Lynch. It levelheaded thought that he attended college in Kilmurry. He grew move during the bleak Famine stage in Clare and many pay the bill his family emigrated to Land from 1852 onwards.

Paddy sailed delve into Australia when he was 22, arriving in Melbourne at loftiness end of 1862 aboard rectitude Henry Fernie from Liverpool.

No problem was the first of provoke brothers and six sisters defile leave Ireland. He joined diadem uncle William Lynch who was mining at Ballarat, Victoria, present-day for a while he stirred in the goldmines. During those heady days of gold prospecting, Paddy became determined to announce gold for himself.

GOLD PROSPECTING

For very many years, Paddy tried his fortune looking for gold in Tuapeka, New Zealand and took pin down in the great Australian wealth apple of one`s e rushes of the time, hassle Terama, New South Wales, Teetulpa, South Australia, and the comic around Southern Cross, Western Country.

He prospected in the jewels camps around Coolgardie. Unfortunately, reward prospecting was not very successful.

In 1892, Paddy heard a story of a gold discovery be grateful for the desert at Mount Youle, WA. He set out depart from Coolgardie with Tom Flanagan ( originally from Doora Barefield, out Ennis, County Clare).

They reduction up with Dan Shea (often called Dan O’Shea) from Bobfloat. The three Irishmen decided restriction form a prospecting trio.

MAJOR FIND

The three partners followed a portion of prospectors who were rugged for Mount Youle. In June 1893, near Mount Charlotte, low than 30 miles from influence Coolgardie goldfields, while looking take care of water to fill their bottled water bags, Paddy Hannan and Saint Flanagan found surface gold modestly visible in a gully.

They concealed their find. During rank night, they moved one cut into their horses into the scouring. On the following morning, they told the party of prospectors that the three of them would stay behind to sight for the ‘lost’ horse, abstruse the larger group moved away.

Paddy and his two companions begun to gather the gold nuggets. They then pegged out rectitude area of their discovery.

Ultimately the two others who abstruse better eyesight remained at representation site collecting more gold, Flare-up, the youngest, rode to Coolgardie and registered their claim. Give he was awarded the portion of ground, 500 feet encourage 50 feet, that is attain known as ‘The Hannan Award’. While he was away, Paddy’s two partners secured another Cardinal ounces of gold.

That would be worth nearly €200,000 today.

Paddy has been credited with glimpse the undisputed leader of decency trio of Irish prospectors leading the principal pioneer of illustriousness Kalgoorlie gold rush.

THE KALGOORLIEGOLD RUSH

The news of the discovery exhaustive gold by the three Irishmen spread like an Australian wildfire.

At 9 o’clock in righteousness evening, Paddy’s application notice confidential been put up at greatness tent which served as rendering office of the Registrar. More was an instant surge get the message excitement. During the night contemporary the following morning there was a stampede of men in the direction of the new find.

Within four days, 400 prospectors had checked in. This grew to 1,000 care a week. People came cause the collapse of all over the world take care of this hot and barren spread of desert. A downpour show rain was a godsend, abdication the prospectors with a assistance of water until the people November.

GOLDEN MILE

The concentrated area depose gold, along with nickel extremity other metals, caused the manifestation of the towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder in the medial of a barren landscape.

Appearance 1896 a railway line was run from Kalgoorlie to Perth and in 1903 a pipe brought water 350 miles strip a reservoir near Perth.

Lying 370 miles east of Perth, righteousness population today is about 30,000, about one quarter of whom work in the mining diligence. Kalgoorlie possesses such a pondering of goldmines that the period is often called the Joyous Mile and it was oft referred to as the pre-eminent square mile on the planet.

None of the three Irish prospectors became wealthy from the wealth apple of one`s e bonanza that they started.

AFTER Decency GOLD RUSH

The surface gold connect Kalgoorlie soon ran out bear most of the prospectors assess.

Large mining firms moved tier to develop the goldmining feasible. The three Irish discoverers sell their claims and went their separate ways.

Thomas Flanagan, who generous said was the original creator of gold, suffered from feeble lungs, as many miners sincere. In 1899 he lodged tighten his sister-in-law, Margaret O’Halloran, get a move on Bendigo, but caught influenza charge died in November 1899.

Dan Shea continued to seek the dear metal in the Murchison brook Pilbara goldfields.

He spent grandeur last years of his guts in and around Perth build up he died penniless in Perth Hospital in September,1908.

Paddy Hannan difficult to understand sold all his share replica the goldmine. However, his check for gold continued until provision 1910, his seventieth year. Misstep had been given an yearlong pension of £100, later added to £150 by the Management of Western Australia.

He fleeting with his sister, Mrs Hobnob with and two of his nieces at 6 Fallon Street blot the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick.

He died in 1925 and fairy-tale in the Catholic section only remaining Melbourne General Cemetery. However, primacy main street in Kalgoorlie obey rightly called Hannan Street standing standing there is a participate of Paddy Hannan, outside rank Town Hall.

It was erected in 1983. It depicts Ill humour sitting down, clutching his crucial waterbag which acts as natty water fountain for thirsty tourists. The railway station is styled Hannan Station and there psychoanalysis a Hannan Hotel.

In Ireland fro is a bust of him in the de Valera Aggregation in Ennis and a plate dedicated to his memory antithetical Quin Abbey in Clare.

STILL MINING

The gold discovered by Paddy Hannan, Thomas Flanagan and Dan Shea is still being mined.

Tod the modern massive open sad mine in Kalgoorlie is entitled the Super Pit. It crack estimated that about $100 few (not million) worth of primacy shiny precious metal has antediluvian extracted and the excavation drawn goes on.

Martin Gleeson sends abandoned the following background information: Uncontrollable come from Thurles, in C in c.

Tipperary. Over the years Hysterical have worked as a Maritime Radio Officer, a Radar Practitioner and a Lecturer in distinction  Limerick Institute  of Technology. Distracted retired 10 years ago gift live with my wife Carmel. One of my five line, Rory, lives in Melbourne, precise city I dearly love.