Photographs courtesy of Conrad Poirier
IRELAND, Antigonish County
A locality south west of Antigonish.
Part of the Ohio district, it was later called
Stewart's Mills and then named Ireland because of the numerous settlers
from the "Emerald Isle".
Among the early grantees were William, Patrick, Peter
and Daniel Murphy, Patrick Carrigan, Owen O'Callahan, Edmund O'Connor,
Owen O'Sullivan and Patrick Walsh.
About 1829 William and Patrick Murphy from County Cork,
Ireland and Owen O'Sullivan took up land in this hilly district, and
William Murphy walked twenty miles to Sherbrooke to buy a bushel of wheat
which he carried home on his back to plant in his clearing.
The school section is now consolidated with Cross
Roads, Ohio.
In 1898 it had a saw mill and a population of 70.
ISABELLA LAKE,
Antigonish & Guysborough Counties
See OGDEN LAKE