The novel Castle Daly was published in 1875. Set in a great house in Galway during the famine, its author Annie Keary was a popular novelist in her time, but has been sadly overlooked since. She was celebrated as an author of travel guides, historical fiction and for her adapting of myths and legends for schoolchildren. Of interest to Tuam Herald readers is that, although Annie spent most of her life in England, she was born to a family that played a central role in the life of Tuam in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Disentangling the various generations of the Kearys is complicated by the habit of the family naming all of their successive eldest sons William. They had a house and land at Clough in Corofin. Her great-grandfather established a brewing business at Waterslade Place in the 1740s. In time, owing to the rise of the Guinnesses, his business suffered and he was bought out by the Blakes.
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