[1][disputed – discuss] Ardamullivan Castle is located nearby.

The Irish nationalist brothers, Patrick and Harry Loughnane, farmed in Shanaglish before they were kidnapped and executed by the Auxiliaries in November 1920.

Both found construction work on the Rockefeller Center and have been identified by documentary film maker, Seán Ó Cualáin, in the film Lón sa Spéir, as two of the eleven men in the iconic 1932 photograph, Lunch atop a Skyscraper.

A copy of the photograph hangs in Whelan's Bar in Shanaglish.

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