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Drumsna
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OS Map Ref. N 011 965
Road: N4 County Leitrim Tom Dunphy's
fame explains this elaborate memorial. The Royal Showband, of which he was a
founder member, was the most succesful of all the Irish showbands in the
showband era of the sixties and seventies.
The memorial is on a short
bypassed section of the old N4. A mile south of Drumsna the R201 meets the N4.
Turn on to the road which is directly opposite this junction and follow the
road bending to the right for a few yards.
TOM DUNPHY
MEMORIAL
Erected to the memory of one of Ireland's leading Country Music
stars
who was fatally injured near this spot
on the 29th July
1975
aged 39 years
"The melody lingers on ..."
Ní bheidh
a leithéid arís ann
(His likes will not
be seen again) |
29th July 1975 was a Tuesday
Erected by his
friends
in the Jimmy Magee Allstars
-- July 1978 |
