So Mike gave the trowel a twirl on his bicycle and went home, up to Cappataggle, dressed and washed himself and came down at the time appointed. Tom Monaghan met him at the gate of Killaan House, known that time as Cannon’s or Killaan House. In they go and introduce themselves and they were made very welcome, Tom Monaghan being well known to them o’ course. Mrs. Cannon and her son and daughter were there. So in the course of the conversation, Tom told Mrs. Cannon his business.
“This young man is working with his father, building a residence down the road and I said I’ll introduce him to your daughter.” So Mrs. Cannon was all for it and she said, “Okay, there’s a dance here in the barn on Sunday evening.” There was a barn at the end of the house. ‘Twas part of the old grinding mill and they used to have dances in the barn. The local people would come dancing, boys and girls. I think ‘twas a small mill. I remember in later years seeing the wheel before it was demolished. Anyway, that Sunday evening, Mike Mitchell came down to the dance and he danced with the Cannon lady, Rose-Ann Cannon, and they started going out together. Six months later, they were married in the church in New Inn. Mike Mitchell married into the house because Rose-Ann got the farm from her mother. Her brother (Dudley) moved to Ballyfa, where he inherited a farm belonging to his uncle. The family of (the late) Tom Joe Cannon live there now.