Anyone from Bantry, ND? (Towner, Upham: house, rent, work)

[kidshamrock1997]

Hi all,

Just realised that ND has a Bantry, just like Ireland!
Can anyone tell me anything about the place other than the weather conditions and distance to nearest city (all I have been finding!)?
I think its wild that somewhere so far away has the same name. Is there an historical connection or just conincidence?

Cheers!
D

[blackkat]

nobody is from bantry.... it is a dried up little town just outside of Towner, ND. I went to highschool in Towner and I think maybe in 2000 4 or so people lived there....

[sandj]

Theres more than 4 people that live in Bantry, ND... Yes it is very, very small and as the person ahead did say its a dried up town. There are atleast 11 people that live in the town, maybe a couple more. These are people I know. And there are farms around, close by the town. There arent stores or any sort in town. There is a honey business starting up there. It was a booming town back in the early 1900. As I had lots of relatives that lived there. In fact my mom went to school there for most of her school years then the family moved to Upham, ND - 8 miles down the road.

[ssgoodman]

i was raised about 5 miles from Bantry. In the early days Bantry was large compared to the other surrounding towns. I remember seeing pictures when I was a kid of it back in the old days, used to have a few grain elevators, a few banks, a few bars and a few stores. I remember one picture taken from the grain elevator and the surrounding area of Bantry looked like a desert with no trees in site.

Sutton

[George Lloyd]

Originally Posted by kidshamrock1997

Hi all,

Just realised that ND has a Bantry, just like Ireland!
Can anyone tell me anything about the place other than the weather conditions and distance to nearest city (all I have been finding!)?
I think its wild that somewhere so far away has the same name. Is there an historical connection or just conincidence?

Cheers!
D

Bantry is well named, after Bantry Cork Ireland, it was settled by a majority of expatriated Irish, just as other ND towns have their cultural identity, Scandinavian, German, etc. Immigrants often found it comforting and necessary to be close to other families of like culture, to understand quickly farming land, and socially to preserve and further their cultural values. My 90 year old friend tells me that growing up as a girl, in Bantry ND there were dances every weekend, and people would come from nearby towns, to visit, and tell stories. Upham was the closest town with stores, and services by the 1940s. Can any one post some ground photos of Bantry, today she would love to see them.

[ssgoodman]

next time i get back that way i will try to remember to get some pictures. i remember as a kid going to bantry in the 80's for firework shows that the bar used to put on. also the bar still had the hitching post across the street up until it closed.

[alaska315]

I live in Upham,and met the Bantry Postmaster the other day and she said there are 13 residents there.I can get photos sometime,but there's not much there anymore.

[George Lloyd]

the 90 year old lady hasn't seen her house in 30 years and wonders if its still standing.