Mill Road, Westport
The late Kathleen Moogan (nee McNally) was born in the Demesne, Westport in August 1924 to Pat McNally and Nora (nee Conway from Luckaun, Aughagower). She was the fifth of eight in family. She left Westport when she was aged 18 with her sister Nora to join the ATS in Northern Ireland during the war years. She was in Belfast during the Blitz. She had great stories to tell from that part of her life.
It was during those years that she met her husband John who she married in 1944. After WW2 they came back to Westport and settled on the Mill Road. She had three children; Margaret, Sean and Patsy. She also cared for her father in his later years.
Kathleen loved nature and the outdoors and she loved to walk down by the river and listen to the water flowing; she said it made her feel relaxed and happy. She also loved listening to the birds and every day she would feed them.
She was a very religious woman and her faith mattered a lot to her. She was a regular mass-goer. She loved her grandchildren dearly, and later her great-grandchildren. She would tell them some wonderful stories which she made come alive with imagination and she always loved to spoil them.
Kathleen was pre-deceased by her husband John, her brothers Michael and Eanas and her sisters Ita, Nora, Emily and Margaret. She has one brother John still living in Wales who is in his 99th year; the eldest of the family.
She devoted her life to her family and everything she did revolved around them. She will be sadly missed by her sons and daughter, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, her son-in-law, daughters-in-law, nieces and nephews and all her relatives and friends. May she rest in peace.
