About Richard Rahilly
Born 1839. Richard Rahilly was an Irish politician.
Richard Rahilly (1839β1896), was a grocer, entrepreneur, justice of the peace and nationalist public representative in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in the latter part of the 19th century.
At a nationalist meeting in 1877 in Ballylongford, he seconded a vote of confidence in the nationalist MP, Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1890 and was a member of the Board of Guardians of Listowel Poor Law Union.
As a grocer and entrepreneur he was innovative and was said to be the first person in Ireland with a domestic fridge, as well as to have had the first cash register in Munster. He was involved in setting up Listowel creamery co-operative, and Anno O'Rahilly.
He died as a result of pneumonia contracted after cycling home to Ballylongford in torrential rain from a meeting of Listowel Board of Guardians in March 1896.
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