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Carrick-on-Shannon Golf Club, County Leitrim. (1910 - 1944)

Founded 1910 on a course at Ballinamoney.

Throughout the 1930s the secretary was J Ennis, Northern Bank, Carrick-on-Shannon. The club had a membership of 60. A nine-hole course one mile from the railway station. Visitors' fees - 1s a day, 5s a week, 15s a month. Sunday play allowed without caddies. Local hotel was The Bush.

Report on the annual meeting in April 1931.

 

Carrick-on-Shannon Golf Club, County Leitrim. Report on the annual meeting in April 1931.

Belfast Telegraph Thursday 23 April 1931. Image © Independent News and Media PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

 

Report On the annual meeting in May 1933.

 

Carrick-on-Shannon Golf Club, County Leitrim. Report on the annual meeting in May 1933.

Belfast Telegraph Tuesday 2 May 1933. Image © Independent News and Media PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

 

A stroke competition for the Bankers' Cup was played in May 1933. Herbert Harman won with a score of 58, his brother, Teddy Harman scored 59 and Mrs T F Maher winner the previous year, 60.

The club continued at the Ballinamoney site until 1936 when it moved to Lisnagot, this area now forms part of the St Patricks housing estate, it was just a six hole course with fewer than 20 members.

The club moved to its present location at Woodbrook in 1944.

The Google Map below shows St Patricks.