Site of the Home of James McGloin

The plaque gives the colony's dates; McGloin's own life was a run of exile and return. He came from the townland of Castlegal in County Sligo, where five generations of his family had farmed, and kept a store with John McMullen in Matamoros before their 1828 grant. He wrote an eyewitness account of the Matamoros expedition's ruin. After the revolution he took his family to San Antonio, where his wife Eliza died in 1844, the year McMullen sold him most of his San Patricio property for $5,000. The house site is private property with no public access.

What the plaque says

Site of the Home of James McGloin Born in County Sligo, Ireland - With John McMullen he secured a contract to settle 200 families August 17, 1828 - Landed his colonists at El Copano, 1830 - In 1834 laid out the town of San Patricio - His house on this site was built in 1855 - Died here, 1856

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lipantitlán State Historic Site — 1.7 mi
  Five undeveloped acres on the Nueces named for the Lipan Apaches who camped here, where Mexico built an earth-and-rail fort that Texans took early in the Revolution.
• Lake Corpus Christi State Park — 8.1 mi
  A lake park in the South Texas brush country above Mathis, on a reservoir of the Nueces, with a Civilian Conservation Corps refectory and more than 200 bird species.
• Texas State Aquarium — 27 mi
  A nonprofit aquarium on the tip of Corpus Christi Beach built around the Gulf and the Caribbean, with the largest coastal wildlife rescue center in Texas behind the exhibits.
• Art Museum of South Texas — 27 mi
  Philip Johnson's 1972 museum on the Corpus Christi bayfront, joined in 2006 by Ricardo Legorreta's Miller Wing, holding more than 2,000 works mostly from Texas and the Americas.

More markers nearby

• Old Dougherty House — 1.6 mi
• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — 1.6 mi
• On this site stood Fort Lipantitlan — 1.7 mi
• Battle of San Patricio — 1.7 mi