Hello Brendan,
Apologies for the delay in replying to your inquiry.
This has been a personal journey for me but am happy to share as you have expressed an interest. in hearing more.
In April last year I paid a visit to Tullamore and had a wonderful time including a very worthwhile visit to to the heritage centre. While there I was extremely fortunate to have an opportunity to meet with Michael Byrne, Secretary of the Offaly Historical and Archaelogy Society who is also a published author of local history.
At this particular time he was in the process of writing a series of articles on the subject of Tea Lane and on hearing that I was born in this very place we chatted about my father's family, mainly my McCormack side.
During our conversation it transpired that I may have been one of the last children, if not the last child born there before its demise and he kindly asked me to write down as much as I knew about Tea Lane but unfortunately my family moved away shortly after I was born so I did not have any personal recollections to share.
On reflection afterwards and mainly because my McCormack surname has not continued going forward I decided to write up a brief story of my father,his brothers and grandfather from what I had been told growing up,basically for personal use and to be shared within the family.It is anecdotal as well as incorporating names,dates etc from my family tree. At his time I cannot see it being published as a whole,although I did send a copy to the society for their records and subsequently my grandfather was mentioned briefly in the finished article along with his photograph and I too had a mention.
All in all it was a very worthwhile exercise and the family were delighted.
Once again thank you for your interest and very best wishes.
Best Wishes
Scatty