Characters series: Some of the memorable personalities who have frequented Fenor pub down through the decades
A regular in Fenor Pub in the seventies and eighties, Jack Sherry (left) came from County Meath. He was a carpenter by trade and did a lot of work locally for farmers and families, back in the day when CVs travelled by word of mouth.
He lived at The Rectory, Westown initially and then with the Whelans of ‘Church House’ in lslandkeane, where he saw out the rest of his days on the edge of the Celtic Sea.
A genius when it came to woodwork, the many jobs Jack did around the place included the ‘music lounge’ extension at his then-local, Rockett’s of Westown, in 1969-’70. Tony Rockett remembered how he would work every day of the week — apart from Mondays — but only up until 4 o’clock, “when he would retire to his black tea.” When the mood took him, “Roaming in the Gloamin’” (written when Jack was a baby) was his song.
The son of a farm worker brought up in the rural Trim townland of Corporationland North, Jack was the last born of eight children. Predeceased by all his siblings, he passed away in October 1990, not long after his 80th birthday.
Jack is pictured here c. 1976/’77 with another native of the Royal County, namely Finian Englishby, who was a frequent visitor to O’Mahonys in those years, along with his wife Mary and their eleven children, including daughter Dara (front).
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