Mongey Opticians

The original practice was located at The Mall, Castlebar. An ophthalmologist and later a medical superintendent to The Sacred Heart home. Dr. Mongey played for Mayo, years before his illustrious nephew, also Eamonn, who played in 1950 and 1951. The firm was continued by his daughter Mary Rose Bourke (nee Mongey) at Ellison Street, near the old Post Office in 1948, and later by her brother Iarla who returned from London in 1962 where he did postgraduate training in orthoptics (non-surgical treatment of squint and other binocular vision defects). Iarla oversaw the relocation of the practice to its present premises next door to John O'Donnell's Pharmacy, Ellison Street in 1988. In 2005 Mongey Opticians was taken over by Aine Higgins from Co. Antrim and Damien Brehony from Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.