The Lodge. (Bradley)

St. Anne`s Church of Ireland was opened around 1847 and this house would have been built at the same time as the Rectory for the Minister. Although it is a refurbished  home for the Bradley boys, Sean, Aiden and Carl, it is an historic building worth studying. A formidable building for it`s time, it includes stables for the horses and a few acres of land. When the congregation of St Anne`s had shrunk somewhat, the parish authorities no longer afforded the church a Minister and so the Rectory became unoccupied for some time. Eventually, the Kinley family bought it, to be used as a hunting lodge. Hence the house became to be known as the Lodge and still is today. This Kinley family were reputed to have had money. Local folklore has it that there were two Kinley brothers who lived somewhere in America. In the area in which they lived, a serious outbreak of Yellow Fever occurred causing the deaths of many people. The local authorities could not get men to bury the dead because people  were terrified of catching it. The two Kinleys volunteered to carry out the work of burying the corpses, but at a huge fee. The authorities had no choice but to pay out and the two men are said to have made a huge amount of money and miraculously survived as well. They came home again to Ireland and bought the Rectory in Sixtowns. They must also have bought the hunting and fishing rights from Stevenson, the landlord,  because they hired Wash Deane (Owenreagh) as their gamekeeper. The Lodge was used to cater for hunting parties of friends of the Kinleys, for years. Eventually, the Kinleys left Sixtowns and the Lodge came into the possession of Wash Deane.  He did not stay there very long either and when he emigrated to Canada, the house lay direlect for some years. Then, Joe Bradley, (Moneyconey) came home from New York and bought the place. The Bradley family still live there today.