Deane, Patrick
June 21, 2011Patrick (Paddy) Deane, Kyleballyhue, Killistown, Carlow, who passed away at his home on Tuesday 7 June was a well-known and highly respected man, who had an abiding love of country life and rural pursuits.
Aged 87, Paddy suffered a stroke in March 2010. Following periods of hospitalisation at St Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny at the Rehab unit in Carlow's Sacred Heart Hospital, Paddy spent the final year of his life at home, where he received wonderful round-the-clock care and attention from his loving family.
Born on 16 December 1923 at Kellistown to John and Margaret Deane, Paddy spent his early days growing up in the fields and meadows that surrounded his parent's home. It was here that his love of the country took root. Paddy together with his brothers and sisters, spent many summers fishing, hunting and farming the land. It was this love of the country that eventually led Paddy into the animal farm collection and agricultural contract business.
Paddy was only a child when his mother passed away,leaving their father to raise a large family of four boys and three girls. It was during that time that Paddy and his siblings developed a very close relationship with his uncle George and his sisters, who helped to raise the family.
Paddy attended Tinryland National School and was a popular student, playing on the school football team in the 1930s. He was later to play Gaelic football for the Tinryland club, lining out on the junior team during the 1940s.
He would ride his bicycle as far as Dublin, Wexford, Laois and Kilkenny to see Carlow county teams play. He was a life-long supporter of Tinryland GFC and Carlow county teams.
Paddy possessed a mischievous sense of humour. His humour and wit stood him in good stead and he made many abiding friendships throughout his life.
A keen dog man, Paddy's children often related stories of their father rearing and training greyhounds at the family home.
Like many young people of the 1940s, Paddy joined the Moyle branch of the LSF(Local Security Force), and subsequently joined the Tinryland branch of the Local Defence Force(LDF) and the FCA (Foras Cosanta Aitiuil). During The Emergency, the group trained in Tramore, Gormanston and Courtown camps and also in Tinryland parish hall. Paddy loved to relive those days and tell stories of the good times they had.
In the late 1940s, when Paddy had returned to farming, he started collecting dead farm animals from Mrs Hall, master of the Carlow Hunt at the time. Paddy went on to develop this venture into a strong business, eventually handing it over to his son, Ned, who still runs and owns the enterprise.
An industrious man all his life, Paddy Deane passed on that work ethic to his children, Paddy was always on hand as a source of advice and support.
Paddy greatest love was Maggie Pender from Killane, Ballon, whom he married in October 1951. They raised a family of 12 children, spending many happy years together until Maggie's sad passing in 2006.
Maggie and Paddy were very proud of their children and were delighted with the arrival of grandchildren. There is also a generation of nine great-grandchildren.
They were devastated at the tragic death in 1997 of their grandson Robert.
As a dedicated family man, that love was fully reciprocated by the magnificent nursing care received by Paddy from the family during the last year of his illness.
He was waked at home and his remains were removed to St Joseph's Church, Tinryland - where Paddy worshiped all his life- on Thursday 9 June for requiem Mass celebrated by Fr John McEvoy, PP, Tinryland who was assisted by Mgr Brendan Byrne, PP, Tullow and Fr Brendan Howard, PP, Ballon-Rathoe.
The readings and prayers were by family members, as were the offertory gifts, which was brought to the altar.
Singing during Mass was by Josie Kelly with the adult Tinryland Church Choir, while Paddy's grandaughter Rosalind Deane played the flute.
Another grandaughter, Anne Marie Roche, read a special poem appropriate to her grandad at the end of Mass.
Paddy was laid to rest in the adjoining cemetery immediately after Mass, with Fr McEvoy reciting the final prayers at the graveside.
The huge numbers who attended Paddy's wake, removal, funeral Mass and burial, testified to the popularity of the man and of the Deane family.
he is survived by his children Ethna O'Toole (Rathbawn, Tullow) Mary Roche (Moyle, Carlow), John (Moyle), Ann Donoghue (Rathvarn, Ardattin), Ned (JKL Avenue, Carlow) George (Moyle) Mike (Rathcrogue, Carlow) Tess Dowling (Burton Hall), Geraldine Hegarty (Killerig Cross), Pat (Kildavin) Martin (Milton, Boston, Massachusetts USA) and Joe (Moyle Avenue).
Paddy is also mourned by his brother Jim (Tinryland), sister Margaret (Ciss) Brennan (Newtown), by his sister-in-law Annie (Babs) Malone (Kilbride, Co. Carlow), his 45 grandchildren, nine-great-grandchildren, nephews, nieces, other relatives neighbours and many friends.
Courtesy of The Carlow Nationalist
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