Clock tower memorial to 'a good landlord' is restored

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 1999 / October 28 1999: Clock tower memorial to 'a good landlord' is restored

Work is nearing completion in Keenagh, Co Longford, on what must be one of the most unusual monuments of its size in the Republic. In a month or so, work will be completed on the millennium project to restore the clock tower which dominates the village, a few miles west of Longford town.

The clock tower was built as a tribute to "a good landlord" by the citizens of the village which has a population of more than 300. The landlord in question was Lord King-Harmon who controlled thousands of acres of land and the lives of tens of thousands of people in the last century. His family owned estates in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, Boyle, Co Roscommon, Straffan, Co Kildare, and his family seat near Ballymahon, Co Longford.

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