Paddy Hannan

Patrick " Paddy " Hannan ( baptized April 26, 1840 * in Quin, County Clare, Ireland, † November 4, 1925 in Brunswick in Melbourne ) was a prospector on June 17, 1893 at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia by a Gold Fund a gold rush triggered.

Hannan's parents were John Hannan and Bridget Lynch. He emigrated in 1862 to Australia.

Hannan, Tom Flanagan and Daniel Shea discovered gold, 40 kilometers from the Coolgardie goldfields their horses lost their horseshoes near the Mount Charlotte. After they had their claim registered, they found more than 100 ounces of gold and three days after enrollment were 700 gold prospectors in this gold box.

In 1904, Hannan was awarded an annual pension of £ 100 from the Government of Western Australia. He ended his activities to search for gold in 1910 and went to Brunswick in Melbourne. He died there in 1925.

The main street and a suburb of Kalgoorlie bear his name and in 1929 a statue of him by the sculptor John MacLeod was stationed there. A public irishpub in Burswood Entertainment Complex is named after him as well.

A relief plate with his portrait is mounted on the Quin Abbey in Ireland Quin.