The Founder of Tillystown Tillystown is named for Benjamin Tilly, who lived at Chantilly on Ballybride Road. In about 1860, he laid out the streets of a new village on 20 hectares he held in the townland of Shanganagh, just west of this station.[1] He then invited less affluent members of the community to […]
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