Long ago the shops were not as plentiful as they are now but they were the same as they are now. The shop windows were not as big as they are now. They used be selling things outside the church on Sundays after Mass. There used a man named Brady come from Gort with spades on Sundays and sell them to the people after Mass. They used be a market in Corrofin every Wednesday for calves and pigs.

Landlords.
Saint George from Tyrone was the land lord in this place long ago They had it over a hundred years and about sixty years ago one of the Saint George girls married Brown of Corrofin and Beaghmore belonged to him. The bailifs put out the Shaughnessys of Wood Quay, the Connontons of Cloonsheen and Monaghan of Killganif. From the Frenches Saint George got the land first and they lived in the castle in Beaghmore. One of the Saint Georges married one of the Frenches and that is the way they got the land first. Some of the people who were put out of the land went to America. There was a song composed about one of the Frenches one time when he was hunting in Beaghmore named French of Tyrone.

Parish Priests in Bodyke from 1821-1938
Fr Daniel O'Brien 1821-27 - buried in Tuamgraney churchyard.
Fr Fahey P.P 1827-1832 - buried in Newmarket on Fergus
Fr Treacey P.P. 1832-48 - buried in Bodyke Church
Fr John Gleeson P.P. 1848-78 - buried in Bodyke Church
Fr Peter Murphy P.P. 1878-93 - buried in Quin Church
Canon John McNamara P.P. 1893-1923- buried in Bodyke Churchyard
Rev John O'Gorman P.P. 1923-1930 - priest in our diocese now not buried in Church but yard outside.
Rev McDinan P.P. 1930 -
Curates
Fr. Treacey P.P. had the first C.C. laer allowed after the Penal Days.
Fr Ambrose, Fr Hurley, Fr O'Brien, Fr. Gleeson
Fr. Carden, Fr. White (afterwards Dean of the Diocese & wrote history of Clare)
Fr Rode Kennedy, Fr James Vaughan, Fr John Vaughan (brothers)
Fr John McKenna, Fr Willis Dennane,
Fr John Hannon (very celebrated priest in the days of Bodyke eviction)
Fr Frank McMahon now P.P. Canon of Carraigholt .
Fr McBreen now Canon Breen, Kilkee
Fr Mc O'Connor now P.P. Pucerane Co. Tipperary
Fr McCrowe now P.P. Corrofin Co Clare
Fr John Greed now P.P. Ballinacally
Fr John McGuire
Fr McHogan, Fr James Campell, Fr John O'Dea, dead, Fr R Kennedy, Fr Brian McMalou, Fr James Kennedy