"Shannon View", Moruya

This house, visible from Larry's Mountain Road, off the Princes Highway to the north of Moruya, sits on the banks of Mullenderee Creek, part of the Moruya River system. It was the property of the first non-Aboriginal resident of Moruya, an Irish tailor named Patrick Flanagan, who settled there in 1829.  Flanagan leased farms to Irish migrants and established a Catholic school for their children.

History writes that Flanagan arrived in NSW in 1827, with enough capital to qualify for a land grant. Governor Darling, however, refused to grant land to a man of Flanagan's class. Flanagan travelled to Ulladulla by boat and then travelled overland with the help of Aboriginal guides.