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The Way I See It

 

 

 

By Domhnall de Barra

 

 

 

I suppose I could say I have two great passions in life: music and golf.  For golf read sport because that’s the only game I can play at my age but at one time I was never off the playing fields. I remember a time, in England long ago, when I would play rugby on a Saturday, soccer on a Sunday morning and Gaelic football or hurling in the afternoon. It sounds exhausting now but, back then, I didn’t think twice about it and would go on to play music at the Kerryman’s Club in Coventry on Sunday night and end up at a dance until the small hours.  Oh, to have that energy back again but time waits for no man and all too soon you begin to realise that there are limits to what you can do. When I gave up playing football I decided to take up golf but it wasn’t as simple as that. There was the cost of equipment and joining a club so I started off doing a bit of pitch and putt. Having played hurling was a great advantage and I soon got the hang of the game called golf. Joining a club was the big problem. Unlike today, when everyone is welcome, back then golf clubs were elitist and did not cater for the working classes. There was also the cost of joining which made it almost impossible for the ordinary person to get started. The first time I applied to join a golf club came as an eye-opener to me. I put in my application and a couple of weeks later I got a letter telling me I wasn’t successful. There was no explanation as to why so I thought that was it until I met a cousin of mine who was already a member of the club. I told him about the club’s decision not to accept me and he said, “why didn’t you tell me, apply again and you will have no problem. They did not know who you were but I will put them in the picture.”  I told him I wouldn’t humiliate myself again and I though that was that until I got another letter from the club saying a mistake had been made and my application was now accepted. It really is about who you know!.  I have been playing ever since and it was the best move I ever made. Times have changed and now everyone is welcome, regardless of occupation or social standing. The advantages of playing golf are multiple. It is a game that can be played at any age and is probably one of the best physical exercises you can get. During a round of golf you will walk several miles and use every muscle in the body. You are out in the fresh air for about four hours and you will get to meet new friends and acquaintances. Over a round of golf you will get to know a lot about your playing partners and I must say that, over the years, I have made great friends. I am not saying for one moment that all golfers are nice people, far from it but you soon learn who you want to play with and who you want to avoid.  There is also the chance to be part of the club structure and work in committees to make the game and the course better for everybody. I have always liked being involved in organisations so during my time as a member of  seven different clubs I had the honour of being Club Captain on three occasions and President on another. You might ask why I was a member of so many clubs and the answer is simple. Over the years they closed one by one because, in modern times, it was too expensive to keep them going. In recent years golf courses in Newcastle West, Foynes, Abbeyfeale, Listowel, Castleisland and Ardfert had to close their gates and it is a great pity because they were a great asset, especially to young golfers who spent their summer holidays on the local fairways. While they were doing that they were avoiding hanging around towns and villages getting into all kinds of mischief. I am really enjoying playing golf at the moment and I will continue to do so as long as God leaves me my health.

 

 

 

As  I previously mentioned I have always been involved with voluntary organisations and it has brought me great satisfaction over the years. One of those is Athea Community Council which was set up over 40 years ago to make Athea a better pace for all who live in the parish. My first involvement was to be supervisor of a FÁS Scheme  that worked on building stone walls and creating the Giant’s Garden along with keeping the place as neat and tidy as possible. I moved on to take over as supervisor of Cairde Dúcais but I then took over from Thady Hunt as Chairman of the Council and I have filled that role ever since. I can look back with pride with what we have achieved over the years and I was blessed to have worked with a great committee. There is no comparison between the village as it was before the foundation of Athea Community Council and what it looks like today. This was achieved through the various CE schemes we sponsored and continue to do so. As I previously stated, time waits for no man, so at the next AGM I will not be seeking re-election as chairman. It is time for young blood to take over and we are blessed with a wealth of talent in the parish so I would urge anyone with a little bit of time to spare to please join the Community Council. I can guarantee you will get far more out of it than you put in. I will stay on the council for a while and continue doing the weekly Lotto, if I am required, so I would like to end by thanking all those who worked with me down through the years, especially our secretary, Lillian O’Carroll, who is also standing down. She has given Trojan service to the community and kept our financial affairs in perfect order for such a long time. A final thanks to all the people of Athea who have been more than willing to offer their support, financially and otherwise, when required. You can be proud to be from Athea.

 

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FREE TALK BY SEAN RONAYNE –

 

Fresh from his recent appearance on the Tommy Tiernan show, Sean Ronayne, who is an Ornithologist (a person who studies, or is an expert in birds) will visit Athea to deliver a multimedia presentation on Wednesday March 6th at Con Colbert Memorial Hall at 7pm, in collaboration with Limerick City & County Council. Sean will be discussing all things birds, whilst also playing sounds he has recorded over the years. Sean will be paying particular attention to the Hen Harrier – of which there are many residing in Athea

 

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The Way I See It

 

 

 

By Domhnall de Barra

 

 

 

At last we get the true figures for the top earners in RTE and it shows how out of touch they are with what is fair or equitable. In any other organisation would some  employees be paid more than the DG.?  I doubt it but the argument can be made that they are not really employees but contractors who have agents to fight their cases. That they were paid such outlandish figures is bad enough but the fact that they tried to cover it up and basically lied to everybody, including representatives of the government who own the station on our behalf, is unforgivable. I am all in favour of people getting a good salary but you’d have to ask yourself, what did the high earners actually do to merit such sums? They are treated as celebrities just because they are handy with the gab and can put a programme together. I have a huge problem with “celebrities” anyway. Look how we treat professional footballers. Fans ape their hairstyles and what they wear and they are regularly portrayed in newspapers and glossy magazines and why? Because they are able to kick a ball about better than others. Likewise we have the adoration of singers and actors at the top of their professions. Being able to sing is a God-given talent, you either have it or you don’t, but it does not mean that we have to hang on every word singers say on the many chat shows they grace with their presence.  At the moment everybody is talking about the Oscar nominations and the Irish hopefuls. At the end of the day, who cares?   Actors get well paid because they are good at imitating others, it’s as simple as that. When was the last time we saw a brain surgeon on a chat show. Now, they are the real “celebrities” who have life-saving skills beyond any entertainer but, if you asked the average person, I doubt if they could name one. The same goes for many others in the medical profession who keep us alive day after day but we don’t rate them at all it seems. There is no comparison between what they do and what the high earners in RTE do or indeed how much they get paid. RTE is a great radio station with fantastic workers, many behind the scenes, who provide us with a variety of programming. They are the ones who will suffer in the long run if changes are not made. I suggest four steps at least. First, get rid of the agents and contracts and make everyone an employee on good but realistic wages. Second, get rid of anybody who had a hand in trying to hoodwink us all about the squandering of money. Third, replace the board of RTE who should have been on top of this controversy from the beginning and fourth, introduce a license fee that is collectable by revenue to cover, not just TV sets but all types of devises that can capture programmes.  If everyone paid a share it could be much less that what it costs at the present time. Many people stopped renewing their licence when the truth about Ryan Tubridy’s wages broke but that was not the right thing to do. If we don’t fund the station it is the ordinary workers who will suffer, not the high earners who are protected by their contracts. There is also the fact that it is the law of the land and I’m sure that we will see a lot of people prosecuted in the near future. Let us hope that decisive action is taken and we can draw a line under the whole debacle.

 

 

 

Next weekend is our new bank holiday celebrating St. Brigid. Saint Brigid of Kildare, one of Ireland’s patron saints, is a prominent figure in Irish religious history and folklore. Known as the ‘Mary of the Gael,’ her legacy is marked by her dedication to the Christian faith, her founding of several monastic communities, and her legendary miracles  Born in the mid-5th century, Brigid was the daughter of a pagan chieftain and a Christian slave. Despite her father’s status, Brigid’s early years were marked by hardship. She was known for her piety from a young age, and after converting to Christianity, she dedicated her life to serving God and the poor.  There are many stories and legends about our patron saint but much of it can be taken with a pinch of salt. This is due to the oral passing from generation to generation (no Whatsapp in those days) where some story tellers were liable to embellish the narrative for good effect. What is true is that she was  a great Saint who was revered by the people. Many forms of her name are common throughout the country. My own grandmother was called Bridge, i have an aunt and a sister called Breda and a daughter called Bríd. The name was second only to Mary in popularity and there was hardly a family in the country at one time who didn’t have one or two children named after them. It is good to see that there is going to be celebrations in the Church this weekend to commemorate St. Brigid

 

 

 

There were a number of miracles attributed to her as well. These are just a few

 

The Miracle of the Cloak

 

One of the most famous miracles attributed to Saint Brigid is the spreading of her cloak over a large area of land. According to the legend, when Brigid asked the King of Leinster for land to build her monastery, he mockingly suggested she could have as much land as her cloak could cover. Miraculously, her cloak expanded to cover a vast tract of land, enough to establish her monastery.

 

The Healing Miracles

 

Saint Brigid is also known for performing miraculous healings. Stories speak of her curing the blind, healing lepers, and even bringing the dead back to life. These miracles often highlight her compassion for the sick and needy.

 

The Miracle of the Ale

 

In another miracle, Brigid is said to have turned water into beer for a visiting clergyman and his companions. This story reflects both her hospitality and her divine abilities.

 

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Railway Foynes

 

GSR days at Foynes, 1925-1945

 

 

 

On 1st January 1925 most of the railway companies in the Irish Free State were merged to form the Great Southern Railways Company. The government hoped that the merger would eliminate duplication and make the whole railway network more effective and profitable. Although the new company was aware of the rise of road transport that competition didn’t really start impacting on railway receipts until the 1930s. Although the end of the Great War saw a surplus of army lorries becoming available for road hauliers, the condition of the vast majority of the roads in Ireland was no better than medieval times. In the 1920s the government engaged with a major programme of road improvement which gave road transport the means to push ahead in the 1930s. The decline in freight movements after the 1929 depression and the economic war with Britain meant that freight was increasingly by small volumes and thus more suitable for road transport.[44]

 

 

 

One of the people who didn’t benefit from this government spending was Edward Coonan, an employee of the Great Southern Railways at Foynes. Along with Thomas Scully of Foynes, and a number of others in County Limerick, he was due back pay as an ex soldier in the National army in 1922. The Minister for Defence told Deputy Nolan that two of the people had receive payments but that no army records exist for Scully and Edward Coonan didn’t yet return his application form. The Minister said he would make further enquires the result of which we don’t have to hand.[45]

 

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William Trevor (died 2016),

 

He won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award at the Listowel Writers’ Week in 2003. A monument to Trevor was unveiled in his native Mitchelstown in 2004. It is a bronze sculpture by Liam Lavery and Eithne Ring in the form of a lectern, with an open book incorporating an image of the writer and a quotation, as well as the titles of his three Whitbread Prize-winning works and two other works of significance. He won the 2008 Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature, and on the eve of his eightieth birthday a commemorative plaque, indicating the house on Upper Cork Street, Mitchelstown where Trevor was born, was unveiled by Louis McRedmond. Trevor was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011 (died 2016): “I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”

 

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The Way I See It

 

 

 

By Domhnall de Barra

 

 

 

I am glad that I am living in Ireland, a republic that is run by the people for the people. We elect the people to form our government and if we don’t like what they are doing we have the option of not voting for them at the next election.  We also have a good police force and a judiciary that is independent of politics.  This was brought to my mind by the case in America where Molly Martens and her father Tom were on trial for the manslaughter of her husband Jason Corbett.  It was a shocking case and the evidence was so compelling that one would have to wonder why they were offered a plea bargaining deal to avoid a murder charge. We don’t have plea bargaining and that is a good thing because it takes the power away from the judiciary and sometimes lets people get away with very serious crimes. The Martens said that they were acting in self defence when they attacked and killed Jason Corbett. I can understand that her father would be justified in hitting the victim with a baseball bat if he thought his daughter was being assaulted but how many blows does it take to stop somebody?  Most of you will not have held a baseball bat in your hand but I have and I promise you it is a really heavy, dangerous object. One blow to the head would be sufficient to at least knock somebody out but Tom Martens continued to hit Jason Corbett until his skull was completely smashed. The pathologist in the case said that it was impossible to quantify how many blows were struck but it was at least 12 and the injury was so bad that pieces of the skull were falling out on the table when he was doing his examination. Molly Martens was unharmed, her clothes were not torn and she was wearing a fragile bracelet that was intact after the attack. She had been shown to be a liar and a manipulator yet the powers that be thought it was alright to accept their plea of manslaughter and drop the murder charge.  They will now be free within months which, to any reasonable understanding, is a travesty of justice. You would have to wonder if the fact that Tom Corbett was a former FBI  agent had any influence on the case or would it have been different if it was an ordinary Joe Soap.  People are treated in different ways. Look at the case involving Donald Trump in New York.  He called the judge in the case a fraud and complained of a witch hunt but despite being in contempt of court on several occasions he wasn’t punished for it. I know that if I went into the courthouse in Abbeyfeale a few years ago and called Justice Cyril Maguire a fraud I would be in jail before my feet could touch the ground. This is what happens when political parties in power appoint judges. Some will appoint liberal judges and others conservative ones. They will be expected to toe the party line and this is not good for justice. A true judge has to be completely impartial, regardless of the case before the court or the politics of the accused, otherwise the law does not work in the best interests of the people. Politics in America is so polarised that each side is convinced the other is corrupt. That is why, despite having several charges hanging over him, Donald Trump is still leading the race for the Republican nomination and is ahead of Joe Biden in the Presidential race according to most recent polls. They say the first casualty of war is truth but it isn’t doing so well in political circles either.

 

 

 

We were lucky to escape the worst of  storm Debbie as it crossed through the midlands on Monday night. We had some high winds alright but nothing compared to what happened in the West and across the country. You could not help feeling for people who have lost their livelihoods due to storm damage and flooding. One shop owner was standing in the midst of the devastation and said his business was ruined and he was not covered by insurance because they were flooded once before. There must be something done to provide some kind of cover for people who find themselves in a designated flood plane. You can’t blame the insurance companies because the risk is too high so I think the government should provide the cover even if it means a levy on all insurance policies. With the climate changing so rapidly things are going to get better before they get worse.

 

 

 

The shortage of priests is in the news again lately. Vocations are practically non-existent and the Church is relying more and more on retired priests to help out overworked curates and parish priests who have three or four parishes over vast areas to cover.  It is time that the old men who rule the roost are dragged into the current century and allow married men to be ordained. There is also the case for ordaining women and there is no reasonable argument against it. Maybe it is already too late with congregations dwindling in all parishes but if there are enough priests maybe Masses will be more frequent locally and Churches won’t have to close. Things have changed a lot since my young days when the priests ruled with an iron fist. We feared them more than anything else and that fear was  bolstered by their weekly sermons which were, on the whole, very negative and full of what would happen to us if we died in a state of sin. As time went on and people got more educated some began to question what was being taught and many chose not to attend Mass anymore except for baptisms, first communion, confirmation, weddings and funerals. They had a type of a-la-carte approach to the Church’s teachings so numbers attending on Sundays diminished. It wasn’t helped by the scandals either but there are still a large number of believers out there who would appreciate having a priest in the parish. Who knows, if the Catholic religion is made more relevant to modern society we may see the pews full again.

 

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Listowel Event

 

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15-week-old baby with hiccups jumps in the womb

 

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Reflection

The Presbytery, Abbeydorney (066 7135146; 087 6807197)

abbeydorney@dioceseofkerry.ie

22nd January 2023, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.

In the 1960s, many young Irish priests and religious (Brothers and Sisters – Nuns) left their native land, as they answered the call to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the furthest end of the earth.  The first part of a long article in this ‘Dear Parishioner’ gives an account of the life of a North Kerry priest and three companions, who arrived in Brazil, South America, to start a new mission in August 1960.  Fr. James Collins had already got a lot of missionary experience, having spent 13 years in the Philippines.  When I try to cast my mind back to August 1960, I know that I would have been thinking a little about (and worrying) about starting secondary school in St. Brendan’s College, Killarney, in the following September.

 

One of Fr. Collins’s three companions, Fr. Sean Myers, was also a Kerry man – from Barleymount, Killarney – from a parish that has been getting a good amount of publicity in recent times, because of the success of the Clifford brothers – Paudi and David – and the members of the Fossa Gaelic Football team, winners of the All-Ireland Junior Club Final in Croke Park last Sunday.  Fr. Myers is still alive and well in Brazil.  He was an unusual missionary, who worked in an isolated area of the country.  For those, who can recall the Radharc programmes, made by a team of priests from Dublin Diocese, Fr. Myers was the subject of one of them.  The progamme, with the title, ‘Padre Joao is a Kerry man’ was shown on RTE in 1977.

 

On another occasion, while he was at home on holidays from Brazil, Fr. Myers, with the help of some friends,  succeeded in finding old horse ploughs that were not being used and arranged for them to be transported to Brazil.  I am not sure did that happen before 1977 but I recall there was film footage of it, with, I think, Fr. Myers himself driving a truck carrying the ploughs.  A little bit on the internet that I found about Fr. Myers says ‘Fr. Seán Myers, Redemptorist missionary is, at once, priest, dentist, mechanic and guide to the 27,000 people, living in  a remote corner of the Brazilian interior.  There are some who think his approach to mission is outmoded.’  He says of himself, “I am just a cábóg from Barleymount, living and praying with cábógs in the Brazilian backwoods.”   ‘Cábóg’ in my Irish/English Dictionary is given to mean ‘Clown, Clodhopper and Migratory Labourer’.

(Fr. Denis O’Mahony)

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In an interview for Reality, Brazilian historian, Luciene Ribeiro, describes the life and ministry of Kerry-born Redemptorist Bishop, James Collins.

The story of Bishop Collins Cssr.

Luciene Ribeiro grew up on a farm about 250 kilometres from Pedro Afonso, a parish served by Redemptorists since establishing their mission in Brazil in 1960.  The farm was the last outpost on one of annual mule-back journeys the missionaries made to the vast hinterland of their parish.   Luciene later became Diocesan Secretary and worked with Bishop Collins for five years. Recently, she wrote a Master’s dissertation in the post-graduate ‘History of Amazonian Peoples Programme’ at the University of Tocantins, entitled ‘An historical analysis of the Episcopacy of Bishop Collins in the North of Goias (1960-1999)’.  She talks of her gratitude to the Redemptorists and Bishop Collins’ family for providing access to sources in places as far-flung as Moyvane, Co Kerry and Fortaleza, Brazil.   Anne Staunton and Pat O’Sullivan, who worked in Bishop Collins’ diocese, interviewed Luciene.

Tell us about Bishop Collins’ life before his arrival in Brazil. The first Irish Redemptorists, Frs. James Collins, Sean Myers, Michael Kirwan, and Jim McGrath, arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in May 1960.  The Redemptorists had been invited by Dom Alano du Noday, the French-born bishop of a vast region on the edge of the Amazon basin, with a backup letter from Dom Helder Camara, Secretary General of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference.  Fr Collins was leader of the new mission.  He was born in February 1921 in Moyvane, Co. Kerry, youngest son of Michael and Catherine Collins.  Sadly, James’ mother died in childbirth, when he was one year old.  Two of the eight Collins children became priests, and one became a religious sister. James attended two primary schools, St Michael’s in Moyvane and the CBS I in Tralee.  As a 12-year-old, he went to the Redemptorist Minor Seminary in Limerick, where he completed his secondary education.  On 3 September 1944, aged 23, he was ordained priest, after which he spent 18 months working on the Redemptorist Record.  From 1947 to 1960, he was part of the Redemptorist mission to the Philippines.  He was then recalled to Ireland to lead the Redemptorist’s new mission to Brazil, where he remained for 39 years.  In 1999, having retired as bishop, health reasons forced him to return to Ireland, where he died on 4 October 2002.

Describe life in the Brazilian mission in the early days. In August 1960, the four missionaries arrived in Pedro Afonso, where Fr. Collins was appointed parish priest.  According to the 1960 census, their parish covered an area of 37,000 kilometres – about half the size of Ireland - with a population of

 

34,279 or one inhabitant per square kilometre.  Eighty-five percent of the population lived in the sprawling countryside.  As they were far from Brazil’s political turmoil in the early sixties, the missionaries’ lives were largely unmarked by the intense polarisation between the political left and right, which eventually led to the 1964 military coup.  One memorable story of that time about Fr Collins and the military coup was a telegram he sent to the communities to “tóg an t-airgead amach, tá an banc briste,” as word spread of the currency’s collapse.  The pastoral praxis of the time was to celebrate Mass and hear confessions in the towns and villages on Sundays and feast days and visit the rural areas once a year in what was known as a ‘desobriga’ or helping the faithful fulfil their obligation to confess once a year.  They travelled on horseback or mules to get to know their parish.  After listening to the people’s expectations, they decided to increase the intake of students at the local secondary school in Pedro Afonso.  Fr Joe Hanrahan joined the mission as college headmaster and teacher.  An agricultural college was also built in the parish in partnership with the state government. Fr Collins was keen on living in a city with greater ease of communication with Ireland and where Redemptorist vocations could be fostered, so the vice provincial headquarters moved to Fortaleza in north-eastern Brazil, then considered the “breadbasket of religious vocations.”  The Vice Province of Fortaleza was founded with Fr Collins as its first vice provincial.

When was Fr Collins ordained bishop, and what were his priorities?  While still vice provincial, he was nominated Bishop of the Prelacy of Miracema by Pope Paul VI in October 1966.  In his inaugural sermon, he indicated that he planned to work to “promote a church in the image of Vatican II and put himself at the service of the people of the prelacy.” He already knew the region and was conscious of the problems it faced, so he pledged to strive for the spiritual and material welfare of its people.  Three Brazilian diocesan priests opted to remain in this new prelacy.  The Redemptorist parish of Pedro Afonso, with four priests, was also located within it, and there were two congregations of religious sisters. That year three more Irish Redemptorists, including Br Paschal Doherty, arrived in Brazil. The following year, Br. Paschal and Fr. Sean Lawlor were appointed to the new prelacy to collaborate directly with Bishop Collins.  Initially, they lived at the parish house, with few creature comforts as the region had no electricity, running water, or paved roads.  With the enormous pastoral challenge now facing him, Bishop Collins decided to try to expand his team.  (Contd. on back page)

 

He set about inviting Irish diocesan priests to join his prelacy.  He also wrote to superiors of religious congregations throughout Brazil, requesting priests and sisters to help in health, education, and pastoral care.  The presence of two indigenous tribes, the Xerente and the Krahô, presented a challenge in developing “indigenous pastoral care.” From 1970 onwards, two religious and some lay volunteers made up the Indigenous Pastoral team, with Sr Silvia ministering to the Xerente reservation and Fr Valber, a Brazilian Redemptorist, living with the Krahô. They reported to the annual diocesan assembly and presented the case for defending indigenous culture and the right of the indigenous to their ancestral lands. Other pastoral agents, including Bishop Collins, visited the reservations on special indigenous festive days.  He also began to think about formation for priests, seminarians, sisters, and laity.  The bishop’s house, the Centre for Leadership Formation (CTL), churches, parish houses, and community centres were built, through grant aid from German and Irish funding agencies and with the knowledge and skills of Br Paschal.  As regards Br Paschal’s role, Bishop Collins later wrote: “When Br Paschal began with ‘If I were you Dom Jaime, I’d…,’ I would sit up and listen, because it was always sound advice.”   ( Reality December 2022; To be continued next week.)

 

Seeing your life through the lens of the Gospel

(John Byrne OSA. Intercom magazine, December 2022/January 2023)

 

1.            ‘The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light’…Jesus applies this to himself and to his message.  Who have been the Jesus people, who have been a light to you?  Have you been such a light for others?

 

2.            His message was a call to repentance, to a change of attitude towards, from seeing God as one to be feared, to seeing God as a God of love.  When have you heard that call in your life?  What was it like for you?

 

3.            Jesus invited disciples to join him in his mission.  In responding, the disciples ‘left their nets’ to follow him.  Sometimes, we have to disentangle ourselves from other things to give ourselves freely  and wholeheartedly to a commitment.  Have you experienced being enmeshed and being free?  Where did you find life?

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 Michael Lynch, County Archivist,  provides us with this interesting account of the bike's provenance:

 

 

 

"I’ve had a look at our collection of RF.11 Registers of Registration and Licences for Road Vehicles, and have come up with some information on the motor cycle pictured below (Reg. No. IN 190).

 

 

 

Our collection doesn’t go back to the original registration for this vehicle, but picks it up on duty paid on it in 1927.

 

 

 

The owner is listed as William S. Moore, Listowel.  The vehicle is an AJS Cycle, (Engine No. 166660, manufactured in 1922).  It is a 2 ¾ HP cycle, weighing 197 lbs.

 

 

 

There is a back reference to an earlier register, but this doesn’t survive.  There is also a forward reference, which leads us to a new owner in 1928:

 

 

 

Partick J Birthistle, Market Street, Listowel.  Another forward reference sends us to a second entry under Birthistle’s ownership, and gives another forward reference to a register which doesn’t survive either.  I’m afraid that after that the trail runs cold."======================

 

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Jack Patrick Healy was live.

 

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The Kingdom Gospel Choir

 

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Gerard Fitzmaurice

 

April 22, 2019 - 10:20 pm

 

 

 

It seems to me that the premise of your research is somewhat tainted by the gossip of the 1700s. Falling in love, marrying an older women and a divorcee, is not abhorrent. Having much of your fortune confiscated in the French revolution is a tragedy that I would not call frivolous. Francis only received minimal compensation for his losses. Spending your money on worldly goods, especially when you have no children to leave it to, is normal. Almost all tenant farmers in Ireland were poor not just Francis’ Kerry tenants. Paupers were not buried in Westminster Abbey. I suspect Francis paid a grand sum to be buried with royalty. The story of Francis is far more than the negative quotes about him. Also, the earldom is not extinct but the title is held by Simon Henry George Petty-Fitzmaurice, born 1970, and heir apparent to his father, the Marquis of Lansdowne. In my opinion history has not been fair to Francis. I hope you can put his life in the context of the times. Thanks.

 

 

 

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Andrew McDonald

 

April 23, 2019 - 2:53 am

 

 

 

Good to hear that you are putting pen to paper re the FitzMaurices. I look forward to publication.

 

 

 

You may be interested in one much earlier tale about that family that has been passed down in Stack Family law. From around 1325 one key event burned its way into the Stack collective memory, emerging in the record made by Colonel Robert Stack in 1766 – a remarkable 441 years later. The event was a turning point for the FitzMaurice family in their dealings with the Earl of Desmond and was significant for the Errimore Stacks many of whom were able to trace descent to William Fitz Nicholas FitzMaurice, the “Blind Baron”.

 

 

 

The Annals of Inisfallen record that in 1325 Diarmait Mac Carthaig was slain, in the monastery of Tralee, by the son of Nicholas FitzMaurice and other septs including the son of Nicholas O Samragyn the Bishop of Ardfert. As became apparent William was exercising a warrant for Diarmait’s arrest. However the Earl of Desmond had welcomed Diarmait as his guest, and taking exception to these events took revenge on those taking part. “The Legal Proceedings Against the First Earl of Desmond” by G.O. Sayles (Analecta Hibernica, No.23 (1966) describes the consequences. It translates from the Latin as follows:

 

 

 

“It is also said that the Earl, in breach of the Kings peace, picked out the eyes of William son of Nicholas, who in furtherance of the Kings peace had killed the felon MacCarthy; and William’s people who had taken part in the felon’s death were captured and beheaded; some were hanged; some were drawn between horses; without judgement proving that it was beyond the justice of the King which will not punish or put to death without judgement or just cause.” (I suspect there were Stacks among “William’s people.)

 

 

 

The handwritten manuscript accompanying Colonel Robert Stack’s application for arms in 1766 details the impact for William Fitz Nicholas FitzMaurice of the loss of his eyes. Under Brehon law it also meant banishment from his homeland and loss of his right to be the Baron of Lixnaw. For the Stacks of Errimore the conflict with the Earl of Desmond would be long remembered, and would serve to strengthen their links with the FitzMaurice family.

 

Song by John Mcgrath

 

 

 

And when our streets are green again

 

When metalled roads are green

 

And girls walk barefoot through the weeds

 

Of Regent Street, Saint Martin's Lane

 

 

 

And children hide in factories

 

Where burdock blooms and vetch and rust,

 

And elms and oaks and chestnut trees

 

Are tall again and hope is lost

 

 

 

When up the Strand the foxes glide

 

And hedgehogs sniff and wildcats yell

 

And golden orioles come back

 

To flash through Barnes and Clerkenwell

 

 

 

When governments and industries

 

Lie choked by weeds in fertile rain

 

For sure the few who stay alive

 

Will laugh and grow to love again

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Herbert

 

 

 

When God at first made man,

 

Having a glass of blessings standing by,

 

“Let us,” said he, “pour on him all we can.

 

Let the world’s riches, which dispersèd lie,

 

Contract into a span.”

 

 

 

So strength first made a way;

 

Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure.

 

When almost all was out, God made a stay,

 

Perceiving that, alone of all his treasure,

 

Rest in the bottom lay.

 

 

 

“For if I should,” said he,

 

“Bestow this jewel also on my creature,

 

He would adore my gifts instead of me,

 

And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature;

 

So both should losers be.

 

 

 

“Yet let him keep the rest,

 

But keep them with repining restlessness;

 

Let him be rich and weary, that at least,

 

If goodness lead him not, yet weariness

 

May toss him to my breast.”

 

 

 

 

 

There’s a Brightness

 

 

 

As a child I remember small farmers

 

Being depressed at some times of the year,

 

With climatic conditions uncertain

 

Turning hopes of their harvest to fear.

 

Whenever they cursed the bad weather

 

As the elements failed to rescind

 

My father, with wisdom, would tell them:

 

"There's a brightness at the butt of the wind".

 

 

 

When teenage ambitions got twisted:

 

My identity crisis would loom.

 

Rejection and fantasy   mingled,

 

Resulting in pictures of doom.

 

Then.........the Power of Good to the rescue

 

To counter each negative trend.

 

My thoughts would somehow be diverted

 

To that brightness at the butt of the wind.

 

 

 

           Chorus;

 

When the weather of life it looks hopeless;

 

And dark clouds with disaster seem twinned,

 

Remember that God will send sunshine.

 

There's a brightness at the butt of the wind.                

 

 

 

When the storms of anguish are beating

 

And I'm lashed by the gales of defeat

 

When the forecast of life holds no promise

 

It's still not the time to retreat

 

A fresh glow appears in my vision

 

Like a night sky by bright stars sequined.

 

Then I know then I haven't forgotten

 

That brightness at the butt of the wind

 

 

 

At last when I'll see the horizon

 

And that mist (self-deception) has cleared

 

I'll ponder the journey before me

 

And confront all the things that I've feared,

 

Expecting a turbulent crossing

 

As the Clergy point out that I've sinned

 

But knowing that Salvation is certain

 

By the brightness at the butt of the wind

 

                  Chorus.

 

 

 

(c) Mattie Lennon 2005

 

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Civil Records Search for Listowel Area

 

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Wells and Place Names from Dúchas School Folklore Collection

 

 

 

There is a well situated in Mrs. David Dillon's farm. At this day the well goes by the name of Tobair na Giolláin. The people say the English of it is the well of the flies. At first the well was situated near a hedge in the field but one morning a woman rinsed clothes in it and when the people came to the well it was dried up but it sprang up about four perches from the place. The people are still taking water out of it but the old people always said it was a blessed well.

 

Collector- Martin Connelly,Address, Kilteean, Co. Kerry. From Drom Muirinn School

 

Informant, Mrs K. Quilter

 

 

 

 

 

GLEANN na BRÓN

 

The name is still used by the local inhabitants and probably means the Glen of the Quern. It is beside this glen the “brittlen” woman used to be heard.

 

 

 

In the farm of Pat Trant Jnr, Behins, there was a blessed well. This was known to the older people as Tobar Uí Leidhin. There was an old midwife living in Behins named Moll Barry. One May morning she went to the well for a can of water. She had hardly reached the well when she was lifted off the ground and the next place she found herself was below at the monument in Lixnaw, spirited away by the good people.

 

 

 

Beside the well there was a graveyard. A glen beside it is still known as Gleann Dóighte.

 

Beside our house is a place called Pike, on the main road between Listowel and Castleisland. Old Ned Prendiville use to say that there were two gates here and everybody who passed the way with cattle or cars had to pay a toll of a halfpenny. There was also a pound there. There is a Dispensary at Pike. In this building was the old National school whose first teacher was John O’Connor. O’Connor was not long there when he had to flee the country owing to his connection with the Fenians. Then came my Grandfather old Master Lynch who taught there for six years and who opened the school at Rathea in 1875.

 

 

 

My Grandfather was a native of Knockanure. He used to tell stories about a woman name Joan Grogan of Knockanure. This woman used to be “out” with the good people. One night they were on their way to Castleisland to decide whether a girl there name Brosnan was to be taken away or not. On their way they called in to my grandfather’s aunt the wife of Michéal Ruadh Kirby of Behins and took her snuff box as a joke. Micéal Ruad’s wife met her a few days after at the big fair in Listowel (13th May). Joan asked her did she miss her snuff box on such a morning and she said she did. Micheal Ruadh’s wife told her she heard them laughing in the kitchen that night.

 

Maureen Lynch

 

M’athair Muiris Ó Loingsig O.S a d’innis an méid sin dom. Rathea Listowel.

 

 

 

A Holy Well, a moving experience

 

 

 

(from the Dúchas folklore collection)

 

 

 

There was a blessed well in Jim Woulfe’s field and one day they washed clothes in it and that night the well changed out to Tom O’Connor field which was two fields away. People used go there on Sundays and especially Sundays of May. Some people used go there to get cured from some disease they had and they would leave a piece of cloth on the bushes round the well. They used also go around the well three times to every rosary they would say. It is called Sunday's Well. If you were to be cured at some wells you would see a fish.

 

Eileen Shine

 

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Scoil Chorp Chríost, Cnoc an Iúir is a rural school situated on top of a hill in the North Kerry parish of Moyvane/Knockanure. “Cnoc an Iúir” means the “Hill of the Yew Tree “. Our school is a mixed school with 85 pupils. Knockanure has a long history of education with the first school having opened in 1814. Scoil Chorp Chríost replaced that school in 1966. We are celebrating “50 Bliain ag fás “ this year. We play many sports, especially Gaelic football and basketball and we are very successful in quiz competitions. We have even participated in the All-Ireland Credit Union Quiz Final. We love having school concerts and doing Dramas. Visitors always complement us on our bright, happy, welcoming school. We do Irish social dancing and our Set Dancers qualified for the Co. Final of Scór na bPáistí last year. We participated in Peace Proms in 2014 and again this year ! It was a fantastic experience.

 

We have participated in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme. We have 3 Green Flags and just received the news that we have been awarded our 4th Green Flag. We are work towards our Active School Flag and are a Health Promoting School.

 

 

 

Our school motto is : “Ní Neart go Cur le Chéile” and we practice that motto every day in Scoil Chorp Chríost Knockanure

 

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MURHUR National School in Moyvane is named after Murhur (Muig Airthir – the eastern plain, named for the civil parish of Murhur which, with the civil parish of Knockanure, constitutes the Catholic parish of Moyvane, or Moyvane/Knockanure as it is commonly referred to now).

 

 

 

The original Murhur NS was built in 1888, consisting of a boys’ school and a girls’ school adjoining each other. The principal of the boys’ school was James Barry, a Corkman. The principal of the girls’ school was Miss Joanna Hederman. She died on November 30, 1889 and was succeeded as principal by Miss Lizzie Gleeson. An outbreak of typhoid fever closed the school from June 3, 1898 to June 30, 1898.

 

In 1919 , Tom O’Connell became Principal of Murhur Boys N.S., his wife, Mary, becoming Principal of Murhur Girls N.S. circa 1926. A National School was opened in Kilbaha in the Parish of Moyvane in 1929. Mr. Tom O’Callaghan who was teaching in Knockanure N.S. came in as Principal Teacher of Kilbaha. He transferred to Murhur Boys N.S. as Principal in 1944 and retired in 1969, whereupon Murhur Boys N.S., Murhur Girls N.S. and Kilbaha N.S. amalgamated, Cormac O’Leary being the new Principal. The 1888 school was closed in 1975 when the present school in Moyvane opened with Cormac O’Leary as Principal. Cormac O’Leary retired in 1982 and was succeeded as Principal by Mrs Nola Adams, daughter of Tom O’Callaghan.

 

 

 

At its peak, in 1990, there were 8 teachers (7 female, 1 male); now there are 6 (5 female, 1 male). A remedial teacher, Mrs Brenda Fitzmaurice, divides her time between Moyvane National School and Tarbert National school. In 1993 there were 217 (121 male and 96 female) pupils in the school. In the 1998-1999 school year, there were 163 pupils.

 

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SOME local church records; William Dore born March 1832 of Kilbaha, son of Michael Dore and Ellen Shanahan; James Dore , Moyvane born April 1830 to Nicholas Dore and Ann Connor; Bridget Dore, Moyvane born Dec. 1857 to John Dore and Nora Lindon; Tom O Connor Moyvane born Oct. 1822 to Tom Connor and Alice Dore; Margaret Dore, Gortdromosillihy born Feb. 1881 to John Dore and Mary O Connor; Mary Bridget Enright , Moyvane born Feb. 1883 to Brian Enright and Bridget Dore; Marriage Moyvane 1844 of John Pelican and Ellen Barrett; William Pelican born March 1840 Moyvane to Edward Pelican and Mary Regan; Edward Pelican born 1858; Marriage 1890 of Edward Pelican son of Edward Pelican and Nora Riordan; Nora Pelican born Moyvane 1877 daughter of Ned Pelican and Nora Riordan; Marriage Moyvane Feb. 1866 of Michael Kennelly son of James and Ann Pelican daughter of Edward pelican; James Kennelly born Feb. 1884 son of Michael Kennelly and Ann Pelican; Baptised in Listowel church Ned pelican, Moyvane son of William Pelican and Ann Cusack; Ellen Milane born Tubbertureen Feb. 1833 to John Milane and Catherine Moore, sponsors Pat Kennelly and Sarah Mulvihill; Marriage in Moyvane of Michael Kennelly Athea and Catherine Cunningham of Kilbaha Feb. 1860, Catherine was daughter of Dan Cunningham and sponsors were John Dore and John Stack; Denis Kennelly of Athea son of Pat Kennelly and Helen Mullane married Mary Leahy of Knockanure in Feb. 1861 Mary was daughter of James Leahy and sponsors were James Leahy and John Stack; David Neligan born 1837 Duagh, to David Neligan and Mary Moloney; More at irishgenealogy.ie/index.html

 

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THE DAWNING OF THE DAY

 

By; Paddy Drury

 

0, Holy Ireland, suffering still Your troubles now are great, From tyrants trained to shoot and kill; Whose mind are filled with hate; Who sold their souls for foreign gold To rob and steal away; It’s no wonder that our hearts are sad At the dawning of the day.

 

Sons of North Kerry, proud and true Step forward, every man; You know the foreign bloodhound crew, The murderous Black and Tan Who shot young Lyons and Dalton And Walsh, the proud and gay, As they left their gallant comrades At the dawning of the day.

 

On Gortaglanna’s rugged height Surrounded by that crew, How could they stand, how could they fight, What could our martyrs do? They showed no fear when death was near, When the tigers sought their prey, But our blood ran cold when the tale was told At the dawning of the day.

 

But Kerrymen are fighting still From Dingle to Tralee; I’m proud to be a Kerryman And I’m proud of sweet Athea; I’m proud of Lyons that noble lad Who gave his life away As he left his gallant comrades At the dawning day.

 

When writing down the Roll of Fame In old Ireland’s history, With green and gold illume the name Of gallant brave Con Dee. I’d give my life to clasp his hand And ‘tis with him I would stay And fight by his side for my native land At the dawning of the day.

 

 

THE GLEN OF KNOCKANURE

 

By: Paddy Drury

 

May the Lord have mercy on their souls, Their hearts were loyal and true. They were beat and shot in a lonely spot, In a glen near Knockanure.

 

There was Jerry Lyons now, from Duagh, There was Dalton from Athea, There was Walsh from Ballydonoghue And Con Dee, who ran away.

 

Through hill and vale, he did leg bail, As the bullets pierced the ground, ‘till he jumped the stream, at the Bog Lane, Where he blinked the devil’s hounds.

 

Through mountainside slow, he did tide Though wounded then and sore, And he shed a tear for his comrades dear, Who were bleeding in their gore.

 

For our martyrs bold, now dead and cold, To the lorries were thrown in, And Smith said there was an ambush at The Gortaglanna glen.

 

For now Sinn Fein prove that you’ll gain And remember those who died And let each man try to keep his eye, On Smith and on McBride.

 

Now we have two more, we sad deplore, That in this parish fell, They are Galvin and Sheahan, In Heaven they all dwell.

 

 

 

Have you ever been to Duagh? Here is a moving song by Thade Gowran

 

The Boys of Sweet Duagh.

 

Oh sad mournful, is the tale that I am forced to tell

 

From Ballheigue to Abbeyfeale we'll mourn there loss as well

 

Where are the men who raised the flag when freedom's sword did draw

 

Who trampled down the English flag, the boys of sweet Duagh.

 

When Kerryman from far and near attended the Brosna raid,

 

They were the first to appear and started the blockade,

 

With motor car prepare for war with hatchet rope and saw

 

They first came on to lead the van, the boys of sweet Duagh.

 

Sad was their fate I must relate no danger did they fear

 

In youth and bloom they met their doom the soldieries ambush near.

 

No friendly voice no warning sound advised them to withdraw,

The Saxon bayonets did surround our boys of sweet Duagh.

 

Surrounded by the Khakie clan, what could our fenians do.

 

I'm proud to say one Kerryman from the soldiers did break through

 

We warned the company in the rear and told them what he saw

 

He saved his comrades then and the there the boy from sweet Duagh.

 

McMahon brave, Fitzgerald true and Relihan also,

 

Mulcaire and Stack, brave heroes too were captured by the foe.

 

And Jimmy Joy that noble boy who broke the English law,

 

They died to see their country free those boys of sweet Duagh.

 

The car drove on, their leaders gone what rescue could they make,

 

The volunteers then did retreat, their hearts were fit to break.

 

The boys were trapped the raid was stopped the forces did withdraw

"Twas hard to face their native place the boys of sweet Duagh.

 

In wormwoodscrubs with labour hard two years to remain

 

But England's power is dead and gone we will have them back again.

 

God bless our men in jail within the bravest Ireland saw

 

So may we see old Ireland free and the boys of sweet Duagh.

 

In 1954 which can be described as a glorious year in Clounmacon football,
In this year Clounmacon won the North Kerry Senior Championship final beating Tarbert in Tarbert.
The victorious team were:Sean Mahony,Martin Scanlon,Tom Costello,Bobby Buckley,Mikie Lyons,Monty Leahy,
Paddy Connell,Ger Egan,Joe Scanlon,Bill Phealan,Joe Shanahan,Pat Kerins,Anthony 'Wax' Scanlan,
Michael 'Donal'O'Sullivan and Bill Egan, subs:Son Halpin,Brendan Lawlor.

SEEKING PERSON'S INFORMATION Name: Johanna Cleary Relation to missing: Mother Gender: Female Residence: Date of advertisement:01-22-1859 Contact name: Holland,Mrs. Contact address: OH, Cincinnati,6thst


MISSING PERSON'S INFORMATION
Name: Thomas Walsh
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POINT OF ORIGIN INFORMATION
Home County: Kerry
Parish: Knockanure
Townland: Coheredarigan,Kilmeany
Barony: Iraghticonnor
Poor-Law: Listowel

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LOCATION AFTER ARRIVAL
1st location: Ia,Dubuque
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IN AUSTRALIA

Bishop James Moore born in 1832 at Keylod Moyvane son of Patrick Moore and Alice Dunne appointed Bishop of Ballarat, Australia in 1884 he died in 1904



Fr. Patrick Moore. Ordained 1863. Born 1834. Died 1880. Ministered in Melbourne Diocese. Son of Patrick Moore and Alice Dunne. Brother of Bishop James Moore.
Fr. Patrick Moore. Ordained in Killamey 1874. Born 1852. Died 3rd May 1879 at his mothers home. Son of Tom Moore and Bridget Madigan of Shanagolden area.
Fr. Thomas Austin Moore. Born 1842. Son of Michael Moore and Mary Naughton. Gave his position to Fr. Moore in Summer of 1877 and left Ballarat.
Fr. Patrick Michael Moore. Born 1840. {brother of above Thomas. Registered in Melbourne 1863. Died Ballarat c.1880.

Fr Con Hanrahan worked all his Ministry in Melbourne Diocese d 1945


Fr. Richard Carr. Born in 1853. Died 23rd. May 1895 in Chiltern Australia.
Fr. John Collins. Born in 1869. Died in Melbourne, Australia in 1936. Son of William Collins and Mary Shanahan.


Fr. Thomas Moore. Ordained 1932 for Adelaide Diocese, Australia. Born 1907. Retired in 1986 and is living in Listowel.


Fr. Con Nolan. Ordained at Wexford 1940 for Perth, Australia. Chaplain to St. John of God Hospital, Salvado Road, Subioco, Western Australia.

 

TOM MOORE

 

Newtownsandes Famous People:
Thomas Moore his ancestors are said to have come from Newtownsandes.Tom Moore Poet born Dublin 28 of May 1779.He died 26th of Feb 1852 in his 73rd Year bured at Bromham near Devizes in Wiltshire England his Father was a Grocer till 1806 he later became a barrick master.It is thought his Mother had a great Influence on Him.After the Relief act of 1793 Catholics were allowed to enter TCD but were denied Degres.Mr Whyte Teacher of Tom Moore Entered him in TCD at the age of 15 as a Protestant.He left TCD in 1798 to Study Law in London.He Never Practiced Law writing was his Passion so in 1801 he Published his first Poems under the pen name of Thomas Little.Thomas Moore was Welcomed Everywhere he could Sing his own songs and Entertain in any Society.In 1803 he was Appointed as Registrar of the Admiralty Court at Bermuda.He stayed at his Post for a short while.Then put his Deputy in Charge while himself toured the U.S.A and Canada.More Poems were Published in 1806.Irish Melodies were Published in 1807.200 years Later his Irish Songs are still Popular all over the world.Actress Bessy Dyke Married Tom Moore in 1811.''Lalla Rookh'' was Published in 1817.Longmans Paid the Highest Price Ever for the Copy Right.About this time his Deputy in Bermuda Caused a huge loss and Moore was Liable to avoid Arrest he went to Paris and his Family Followed Him there.C 1822 he made a Bargain where the Claim Against him was Reduced to one sixth of the Original Claim which he paid he was now free to come home iifig .....
In 1823 he visited Ireland with Lord Lansdowne after which he wrote a history of Captain Rock and His Ancestors which was well Recived.He was a friend of Emmet and Remembers him in ''O Breathe Not his name''.Other Historical works of Tom Moore, Life of Sheridan Published in 1825 it took 7 years to write, Life of Byron Pub 1830. Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald Pub 1831.Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Seach of a Religion.Published 1834 also the History of Ireland was Published Later.
In 1845 all his Children and Sisters were Dead he said that he did not have a single Relative left in the world.

My Own Newcastlewest

By Garry McMahon

 

To a town in County Limerick where the river Arra flows,

My heart takes flight, each day and night, at work or in repose,

Cross sundering seas, fond memories of the place that I love best,

To roam again each hill and glen, round my own Newcastlewest.

 

From Barnagh Gap, spread like a map, I see Limerick, cork and Clare,

The Ashford Hills and Phelan's Mills, the verdant Golden Vale,

I hear the sound of the beagle hound, put fox and hare to test,

And in reverie I can clearly see my own Newcastle West.

 

And often in the evening when the summer sun went down,

With rod and reel I fished the Deel, a mile outside the town,

Through salty tears and lonely years, my heart ached in my breast,

As I laid my head on a foreign bed, far from Newcastle West.

 

Once more the clash of hurley ash re-echoes in my ears,

As I recall my comrades all, when I now roll back the years,

On the playing field we ne'er would yield and we always gave of our best,

To bring honour bright to the black and white of our own Newcastle West.

 

Through Nash's Land to the old Demesne, where my love she gave sigh,

In the grove of oak her voice it broke, as we kissed our last goodbye,

A stor mo chroi no more I'll see, you're going just like the rest,

And you never will return again to your own Newcastle West.

 

So I'll say slan to fair Knockane, Gortboy likewise I'll greet,

To Boherbee and sweet South Quay, Churchtown and Maiden Street,

But God is good and I' am sure he would grant an exile's last request,

And let me die ‘neath a limerick sky in my own Newcastle West.

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Knockanure Boys c 1942

 

Front L-R Maurice and Jerry Carroll, Dinny Lane, Mossie O Connor, Teddy Carroll, Paddy Larkin, Jimmy Cronin and Aeneas Lane.

2nd row; Tom McMahon, John O Carroll, Joe Goulding, Patsy Kelliher, Danny Barrett, Willie Dowd, Tom Finucane, Austin O Callaghan and Willie O Connor; Third row; Jimmy Ahern, Neddy Broderick, Jackie Costelloe, Patrick Stack, Paddy Cronin, Donal Goulding, Pat Sweeney and Jackie Cronin.

 

Old Knockanure Boys

 

Back row L-R Hugh Goulding, Mick Sullivan, Con Hunt, Willie G Stack, Paddy Carroll, Mick Mulvihill and Mick Lane; Second row; Ned and jack Murphy, Paddy Kearney, Lar Broderick, Bill Buckley, Bill Fitzmaurice, Mick Kearney; Front L-R Tommy stack, Paddy Horgan, Mick Moore, Jack Dunne, Mick White, Larry kearney, John Leahy Con Buckley.

 

 

 

 

Sullivans Derry

 

L to R.

Ellie O Sullivan Keane daughter of Tom Sullivan and Mary Lyons of Derry, Listowel; Her father Tom Sullivan son of Pat Sullivan and Mary Walsh of Blanemore, Listowel and Hannie O Sullivan a grand child of Tom Sullivan her mother O Donnell of Tullamore

 

 

 

Moyvane Football Team.
L-R: Standing, Stevie Stack, Davie Brassil, Jim Carmody, Dan Finucane, Con Brosnan, Jerry Nolan, Paddy Anty Kearney, Jer Carmody, Fr Jim Leahy, Fr John O Connor, kneeling Jimmy Stack, Tom Mahony, Jack Flavin, Josie Enright, John Collins and Denny Mclligott, in front Johnny McCabe.

 

 

 

Jack Leahy with Champion Bull with Maurice Stack a cousin from the Keane side,Mary Leahy nee O Connor, Pat Joe Stack of Knockathea, Julia Leahy nee McElligott of Moyvane, her husband Tom Leahy, Philip Donovan a nephew, chils Thomas Gerald Leahy died later in car crash.

 

 

 

Macra in School

Standing Jerry Enright, Patsy Broderick, Pat Kennelly, Jim Connor and Joe Stokes.

Meeting held in the Old School

 

Knockanure Macra 50 years ago

Seated L-R;Jack Leahy, Sean Broderick, Emmet Leahy, Joe Sweeney, Tom Flavin, Wm. O Connor of Kilbaha,Jack Goulding.

 

Catholic Church in Ballybunion, Killehenny Civil Parish, Iraghticonnor Barony Surname Child Father Mother Baptism Residence Sponsors Priest


Galvin Julianna Thomas Honora Maddin 4 Jul 1840 Garen John Mau'e Ellen Connell 12 Apr 1842 Lahesearh Mary Hefernan Geran John Martin Ellen Connell 29 Jan 1834 Lakhuserah Demetrius Scanlon & Catherine Geran Geran Mary Martin Ellen Connell 16 Aug 1836 Geran Catherine Ellen Connell 27 Mar 1839 Laheserach



Catholic Church in Ballybunion, Killehenny Civil Parish, Iraghticonnor Barony Surname Child Father Mother Birth Baptism Residence Sponsors Rev. Gallivin Elizabeth Ambrose Margaret no record 12 Jun 1835 Gortnaskehi Mary Lynch & Margaret Holly J. Buckley Gallivan Maurice Bernard Catherine Foley 11 Jun 1874 14 Jun 1874 Inch Julia Gallivan & no rec M. O'Connor Galvan Julia Brian Catherine Foley 2 Sep 1879 7 Sep 1879 Inch Julia Galvan & no rec J. O'Keefe Galvan Margaret Brian Catherine Foley 7 Jan 1882 8 Jan 1882 Inch Margaret Connor & no rec J. Mangan Gallivan Ellen Brian Catherine Foley 4 Aug 1883 5 Aug 1883 Inch Margaret Connor & no rec J. Ford Galvan Timothy Brian Catherine Foley 29 Mar 1885 4 Apr 1885 Inch Catherine Lyons & no rec. J. O'Keefe Gallivin Juliana Bryan Mary Breen no record 24 Oct 1832 Barracks Denis Enright & Hanora Breen J. Buckley Gallivan Bridget Bryan Catherine Foley 25 Jul 1872 27 Jul 1872 Inch Ellen Gallivan & no rec J. Lawler Gallivan Mary Bryan Catherine Foley 7 Feb 1877 10 Feb 1877 Inch Margaret Gallivan & no rec Thos Lawlor Galvan Bryan Daniel Margaret Neil no record 28 Jul 1865 Coolard Neil Thomas & Hanora Neil J. O'Connor Gallivan John Daniel Mary Neil no record 17 Jun 1866 Coolard John Sullivan & Mary Sullivan J. O'Keefe Gallivan Bridget Daniel Margaret Neil no record 00 Oct 1862 Galey James Murphy & Margaret Pembroke J. O'Keefe Galvan Margaret Daniel Margaret Neille 9 Mar 1870 12 Mar 1870 Coolard Thomas Nielle & Bridget Nielle C. Murphy Gallivin Denis Denis Ann Hayes no record 12 Nov 1833 Farranpierce Daniel Gallivin & Juliana Gallivin F. Enright Gallivan E. Denis Ann Hayes no record 3 Oct 1836 Farranpierce Bridget Kennelly & Michael Kennelly D. O'Sullivan Gallivan Michael Denis Ann Hayes no record 21 Dec 1838 Farranpierce Bridget Riordan & no rec J. Buckley Gallivin Ann Denis Ann Hayes no record 14 Jun 1841 Farranpierce Patrick McCoy & Mary Gallivin J. Buckley Gallivin Joanna Dermot Ellen Connor no record 22 Nov 1836 Coolkeragh John Connor & Ellen Connor D. O'Sullivan Gallivin Ellen Dermot Ellen Connor no record 30 Jun 1832 Glouri James Stack & Honora Corridan J. Buckley Gallivin Margaret Dermot ___ Connor no record 22 Dec 1834 no rec Patrick Burns & Mary Walsh J. Buckley Gallivan Mortimer Dermot Catherine Kenely no record 19 Nov 1848 Glorigh Patrick Kennelly & Mary Kennelly F. McCarthy Gallivan Catherine Dermot Catherine Lynch no record 6 Oct 1844 Lahasherragh Simon Lynch & Juliana Barry M. O'Sullivan Gallivan Maurice Dermot Mary McNamara no record 15 Dec 1844 Gloure Maurice Gallivan & Mary Enright D. O'Sullivan Galvin Hanora James Margaret Enright 8 Apr 1892 10 Apr 1892 Lahaserough Mary Francis & no rec H. O'Sullivan Galvin Daniel James Margaret Enright 10 Jan 1894 13 Jan 1894 Lahaserough Hanora Enright & no rec H. O'Sullivan Galvin Deneis James Margaret Enright 25 Jan 1896 26 Jan 1896 Lahaserough Honora Francis & no rec P. Browne Gallivan Mary James Margaret Enright 28 Feb 1897 28 Feb 1897 Lahaserough Hanora Lynch & no rec J. Connihan Galvin James James Margaret Enright 28 Mar 1899 1 Apr 1899 Lahaserough Ann Barry & no rec G. Behan Gallivan Jeremiah Jeremiah Margaret Dillon 16 Dec 1871 16 Dec 1871 Coolcearagh Mary Walsh & no rec J. Lawler Gallivan Daniel Jeremiah Debora Gallivan no record 15 Nov 1846 Lacka John Doran & Johanna Doran J. Walsh Gallivan John Jeremiah Mary Heffernan 8 Nov 1873 8 Nov 1873 Coolcearagh Honora Heffernan & no rec J. Lawler Gallivan Patrick Jeremiah Mary Heffernan 5 Mar 1875 6 Mar 1875 Coolcearagh Bridget Fitzgerald & no rec J. Lawler Gallivan Ellen Jeremiah Mary Heffernan 29 Oct 1880 1 Nov 1880 Coolcearagh Martin Moriarty & Honora McCabe Godley Gallivan Joanna Jeremiah Mary Heffernan 18 Aug 1883 26 Aug 1883 Coolcearagh Bridget Collins & no rec Ch. Godley Galvin Bridget Jeremiah Mary Heffernan 1 Nov 1886 6 Nov 1886 Coolcearagh Ellen Lovett & no rec Ch. Godley Gallivan John Jeremiah Mary Heffernan 21 Jun 1895 22 Jun 1895 Coolcearagh Johanna Lovett & no rec J. Connihan Gallivan Jeremiah Jeremiah Mary Heffernan 27 Dec 1876 31 Dec 1876 Knockenagh Bridget Heffernan & no rec Thos Lawlor Gallivan John Jeremiah Catherine Kenely no record 18 Aug 1854 Gehard John Gallivan & Honora Gallivan J. Walsh Gallivan Timothy Jeremiah Catherine Kennelly no record 11 Jul 1859 Gale John Gallivan & Johanna Quilter J. Walsh Gallivan Patrick Jeremiah Catherine Kennelly no record 12 Mar 1862 Galey Maurice Gallivan & Johanna Gallivan J. Walsh Gallivan Jeremiah Jeremiah Catherine Kennelly no record 25 Mar 1852 Gloura Patrick Kenelly & Mary Kenelly M. McMahon Gallivan John Jeremiah Catherine Kennelly no record 1 Oct 1851 Glouria Johanna Kennelly & no rec J. Walsh Gallivan Julia Jeremiah Catherine Lynch no record 24 May 1842 Ladoa John Gallavan & Julia Gallivan J. O'Connor




Catholic Church in Ballybunion, Killehenny Civil Parish, Iraghticonnor Barony Surname Child Father Mother Birth Baptism Residence Sponsors Rev. Gallivan John John Mary Burke no record 23 Nov 1852 Barrack Thomas Bourke & Ellen Bourke J. Walsh Gallivan Ambrose John Honora Burke no record 13 Jul 1856 Barrack Thomas Gallivan & Elizabeth Gallivan J. Walsh Galavin Honora John Mary Burke no record 15 Nov 1863 Barricks Patrick Fitzgibbon & Ellen Burke J. O'Keefe Gallivan Maurice John Mary Burke no record 16 Jan 1855 Gortnaskehy Maurice Burke & Ann Burke J. Walsh Galvan Martin John Mary Burke no record 28 Nov 1865 Gortnaskehy Patrick Fitzgibbon & Ellen Burke J. O'Connor Gallivan Michael John Mary Burke 13 Aug 1868 15 Aug 1868 Gortnaskehy Thomas Lyons & Mary Lynch C. Murphy Gallivan Ellen John Mary Burke no record 21 Jan 1859 Kilhiny Thomas Burke & Honora Burke M. Mahon Gallivan Michael John Mary Burke no record 00 Jul 1860 Killihiny John Francis & Mary Francis J. Walsh Galvin Jeremiah John Ellen Curran 4 Sep 1891 5 Sep 1891 Ballybunion Bridget Curran & no rec H. O'Sullivan Galvin John John Ellen Curran 25 Nov 1892 26 Nov 1892 Ballybunion Ellen Galvin & no rec Ch. Godley Galvin Patrick John Ellen Curran 22 Feb 1895 27 Feb 1895 Ballybunion Mary Browne & no rec P. Browne Galvin Margaret Mary John Ellen Curran 10 Oct 1896 11 Oct 1896 Ballybunion Honora Deenihan & no rec P. Browne Gallivan Margaret John Julia Enright 8 Sep 1885 13 Sep 1885 Dromerin Mary Enright & no rec Ch. Godley Galvin Catherine John Julia Enright 13 Dec 1889 17 Dec 1889 Dromerin Ellen Enright & no rec C. H.. Godley Galvin John John Margaret Enright 24 Oct 1890 26 Oct 1890 Lahaseragh Mary Lyons & no rec Ch. Godley Galvan Mary John Catherine Falvey no record 26 Mar 1864 Doon Patrick Connor & Mary Connor J. O'Connor Galivan Mortimer John Catherine Falvey 19 Mar 1866 24 Mar 1866 Doon John Stack & Mary Stack J. O'Keeffe Gallivan Ellen John Catherine Falvey 20 Jun 1868 21 Jun 1868 Doon John Flahive & Catherine Flahive M. O'Connor Gallivan Michael John Catherine Falvey 25 May 1871 28 May 1871 Doon Patrick Lyons & Joanna Lyons no entry Gallivan Jeremiah John Catherine Falvey 15 Sep 1873 20 Sep 1873 Doon Patrick Pearse & Mary O'Connor J. Lawler Gallivan Thomas John Catherine Falvey no record 26 Apr 1856 Gale Michael Lean & Elizabeth Gallivan J. Walsh Gallivan John John Ellen Falvey no record 00 Jul 1861 Killihiny Michael Connor & Elizabeth Connor J. Walsh Galvin John John Elizabeth Kennedy 2 Mar 1869 4 Mar 1869 Ballybunion Ellen Kennedy & no rec J. Lawler Gallivan Thomas John Elizabeth Kennedy 5 Oct 1870 9 Oct 1870 Ballybunion John Connor & Joanna Kenny C. Murphy Gallivan Ellen John Elizabeth Kennedy 19 Jun 1872 23 Jun 1872 Ballybunion Lucy McGrath & no rec M. O'Connor Gallivan Michael John Elizabeth Kennedy 26 Sep 1873 28 Sep 1873 Ballybunion Morgan O'Flaherty & Elizabeth Mahony J. Lawler Gallivan Robert John Elizabeth Kennedy 27 Sep 1875 3 Oct 1875 Ballybunion Patrick Buckley & Hanora Buckley Thos Lawlor Galvan Patrick John Elizabeth Kennedy 19 Aug 1877 26 Aug 1877 Ballybunion Mary Barrett & no rec J. O'Keeffe Galvan Mary John Catherine Kennelly no record 24 Jan 1857 illegible Patrick Kennelly & Mary Purcell J. Walsh Gallivin Stephen John Bridget Mahony no record 12 Jan 1844 Barna Mary Sullivan & no rec M. O'Sullivan Gallivin Bridget John Bridget Mahony no record 29 Jan 1847 Barna John Moloney & Ellen Fitzmaurice J. Scollard Gallivin Mary John Bridget Mahony no record 4 May 1836 Barno John Mahony & Catherine Murphy J. Buckley Gallivin Ellen John Bridget Mahony no record 16 Jan 1841 Barno James Fitzgerald & Margaret Whelan J. Buckley Gallivin John John Bridget Mahony no record 4 Dec 1833 Barnoyarrig Thomas Linane & Ellen Linane J. Buckley Gallivin Michael John Bridget Mahony no record 28 Apr 1839 Barnoyarrig Catherine Mahony & no rec D. O'Sullivan Gallivan Bridget John Catherine Molony no record 11 Jul 1859 Killihiny John Stack & Bridget Stack J. Walsh Galvin Michael John Mary Mulvihill 13 Jan 1887 15 Jan 1887 Ballybunion Bridget Lynch & no rec J. O'Keefe Galvan Deborah John Honora Murphy no record 4 Mar 1866 Laheseragh Michael Harman & Mary Harman J. O'Keefe Gallavin Michael John Honora Murphy no record 19 Apr 1849 Liselton John Francis & Margaret Francis J. Walsh Gallivan John John Honora Murphy no record 17 Jan 1859 Liselton Patrick Joy & Margaret Joy M. Mahon Gallivan Honora John Honora Murphy no record 00 Dec 1861 Liselton Michael Murphy & Catherine Murphy J. Walsh Gallivan James John Honora Murphy no record 26 Apr 1852 no rec Michael Gallivan & Joanna Murphy J. Walsh Gallivan Mary John Bridget Sheehy 24 Apr 1896 26 Apr 1896 Laheserough Mary Ferris & no rec J. Connihan Gallivan Catherine John Bridget Sheehy 11 Jan 1898 15 Jan 1898 Laheserough Johanna Browne & no rec J. Connihan Gallivin Bridget John Catherine Slattery no record 16 Sep 1849 Glouria Jeremiah Gallivan & Catherine Kennelly J. Walsh Gallivan Honora John Catherine Slattery no record 12 Nov 1850 Glouria Patrick McNamara & Mary Enright J. Walsh Gallivan Maurice John Catherine Slattery no record 29 Jul 1854 Glouria Maurice Gallivan & Johanna Gallivan J. Walsh Gallivan Margaret John Catherine Slattery no record 27 Feb 1857 Glouria Cornelius Slattery & Judith Connor M. McMahon Gallivan James John Catherine Slattery no record 27 Feb 1857 Glouria Martin Gallivan & Joanna Gallivan M. McMahon Gallivin Honora John Bridget Sullivan no record 29 Jan 1847 Glouria John Gallivan & Mary Sullivan J. Walsh Gallivan Honora John Elizabeth Sweeney 25 Mar 1870 26 Mar 1870 Ballyegan Julia Sweeney & no rec J. Lawler

Kilahenny Ballybunion

Killehenny Burial Grounds, Ballybunion Townland, Killehenny Name Age Residence Date
Cause of Death
Applicant for Grave Space/Notes Kavan, Margaret 65 Ballyeigh Jan. 22, 1915 Kavan, Martin Ballyeigh April 8, 1913 Kavanagh, Danial 61 Ballyeigh March 3, 1918 Keane, Bridget 75 Barraduff Feb. 21, 1938 Keane, Ellen 73 Ahabeg March 13, 1915 Keane, James 59 Loughanes Feb. 16, 1929
"69" crossed out. Keane, John 44 Ahabeg Dec. 8, 1912 Keane, Joseph 8 Ahabeg March 23, 1915 Keane, Margaret 3 m Commons Oct. 14, 1912 Keane, Margaret 45 Gortnaskeha April 13, 1919 Keane, Margaret 51 Gortnaskeha May 29, 1931 Keane, Mary 84 Gortnaskeha April 12, 1919 Keane, Mary 29 Kilconly June 5, 1921 Keane, Patrick 14 Commons March 27, 1922 Keating, Catherine 12 Tullamore Jan. 20, 1928 Keating, John 84 Gahard Sept. 29, 1915 Kelly, Bridget 25 Kinsale Aug. 5, 1927 Kelly, Ellen 62 Lahardane Sept. 1, 1920 Kelly, Thomas 21 Lahardane June 21, 1919 Kennelly, Ann 65 Beale Aug. 15, 1936
"Aug. 31st" crossed out. Kennelly, Annie 31 Ballybunion Feb. 4, 1937 Kennelly, Bridget 70 Gortnaskeha Sept. 30, 1923 Kennelly, Catherine 53 Mooneen July 10, 1922 Kennelly, Edward 46 Gortnaskeha Sept. 4, 1922 Kennelly, Johanna 77 Bromore May 11, 1916 Kennelly, Johanna 76 Killeen Aug. 30, 1942 Kennelly, John 48 Barraduff May 4, 1934 Kennelly, Martin 75 Dromin Sept. 8, 1940 Kennelly, Mary 20 Barraduff June 4, 1939 Kennelly, Michael 74 Gortnaskeha Dec. 24, 1927 Kennelly, Patrick 84 Liselton March 28, 1925 Kennelly, Timothy 71 Gullane July 18, 1943
Heart failure
Michael Kennelly Kiely, Johanna 67 Killehenny Feb. 12, 1912 Kiely, Mary 82 Moohane July 3, 1925 King, Thomas 78 Tripol Aug. 19, 1939 Kissane, Bridget 56 Astee Jan. 8, 1918 Kissane, Bridget 89 Lahardane Feb. 3, 1930 Kissane, Catherine 62 Kilcocks Feb. 26, 1916 Kissane, Edward 68 Rahavanig April 4, 1932 Kissane, Ellen 93 Kilmulhane Nov. 16, 1924 Kissane, Ellen 81 Kilflyn Dec. 23, 1926 Kissane, Ellen 37 Lacca July 20, 1940 Kissane, Ellen 71 Kilcox Dec. 20, 1944 Kissane, Hannah 5 Moybella June 6, 1916 Kissane, James 85 Newtown Nov. 13, 1929 Kissane, James 87 Moybella May 20, 1945
Old age
Anthony Ross Kissane, Jermiah 65 Ballybunion July 28, 1927 Kissane, Johanna 81 Kilmore Nov. 1, 1937 Kissane, Johanna 74 Lahashra Jan. 15, 1944
Cancer
John Kissane Kissane, John 48 Liselton Aug. 6, 1914 Kissane, John 82 Kilcocks March 31, 1916 Kissane, John 77 Rathoo Oct. 20, 1919 Kissane, John 19 Lahashra May 8, 1921 Kissane, John 67 Ballybunion July 9, 1921 Kissane, John 76 Kilcocks Oct. 5, 1921 Kissane, John 85 Kilcox Aug. 4, 1937 Kissane, John 54 Laheshra April 20, 1944
Heart failure
Patrick Kissane Kissane, Kate 43 Killarney Nov. 9, 1945
Insanity
Michael Kissane Kissane, Lizzie 70 Urlee Oct. 26, 1919 Kissane, Margaret 26 Astee April 10, 1915 Kissane, Margaret 50 Doon Jan. 16, 1918 Kissane, Mary 87 Ballyduff Feb. 10, 1912 Kissane, Mary (Mrs.) 76 Liselton March 9, 1918 Kissane, Mary 56 Listowel Jan. 29, 1924 Kissane, Mary 71 Lahashera March 27, 1930 Kissane, Mary 77 Killomeroe March 3, 1933 Kissane, Mary 75 Listowel Feb. 28, 1939 Kissane, Mary 84 Moybella May 11, 1946
Old age
John Kissane Kissane, Mary 76 Rathroe March 5, 1947
Heart disease
Daniel Kissane Kissane, Mary Ann 67 Kilteen May 27, 1929 Kissane, Maude 54 Urlee July 28, 1944
James Kissane Kissane, Michael 74 Moybella July 13, 1914 Kissane, Michael 62 Laccabee Nov. 23, 1914 Kissane, Michael 29 Urlee March 10, 1917 Kissane, Michael 78 Killomeroe Sept. 25, 1920 Kissane, Nora 21 Urlee Feb. 11, 1919 Kissane, Nora 75 Tullahenil April 21, 1933 Kissane, Nora 13 Laheshra March 17, 1939 Kissane, Patrick 71 Astee March 4, 1921 Kissane, Patrick 71 Farranfierce Sept. 8, 1921 Kissane, Patrick 87 Lahashra June 10, 1934 Kissane, Patrick 60 Ballybunion Feb. 26, 1938 Kissane, Richard 84 Lacca Dec. 12, 1915 Kissane, Richard 31 Astee Dec. 16, 1919 Kissane, Richard 69 Kilmore July 30, 1929 Kissane, Richard 86 Ahaskra April 19, 1936 Kissane, Thomas 74 Lacca April 18, 1919 Kissane, Thomas 62 Astee March 20, 1925 Kissane, Thomas 18 m Lacca Aug. 11, 1937 Kissane, William 12 Moybella April 29, 1918 Kissane, William 82 Rahoono March 8, 1922 Kullane, Johanna 74 Killehenny June 23, 1946
Stomach trouble
John Culhane





Killehenny Burial Grounds, Ballybunion Townland, Killehenny Name Age Residence Date
Cause of Death
Applicant for Grave/Notes Langford, Nora 65 Ballybunion Oct. 9, 1933 Langford, Patrick 79 Ballybunion Dec. 23, 1946
Old age
Lena Langford Larkin, Anne 18 Lahashera April 11, 1914 Larkin, Daniel 33 Lahashra Nov. 11, 1934 Larkin, Elizabeth 72 Laheshra Feb. 12, 1941 Larkin, Ellie 43 Lahashra Aug. 7, 1935 Larkin, James 52 Laheshra April 30, 1945
Stomach disease
Bob Larkin Larkin, Mary 2 Laheshra April 14, 1922 Larkin, Thomas 72 Lahashera Feb. 13, 1930 Lavery, Mary 79 Killehenny Jan. 24, 1926
Age given as "79th". Lawler, Timothy 40 Ballyconry March 24, 1924 Lawlor, Johanna 78 Killarney Jan. 25, 1940 Lawlor, John 79 Ballybunion April 30, 1935 Lawlor, Kate 77 Trippol Feb. 14, 1947
Old age
William Lawlor Leahy, Daniel 38 Bromore Feb. 18, 1936 Leahy, James 10 Ballyeigh July 22, 1918 Leahy, John 3 Ballyeigh May 4, 1933 Leahy, John 77 Gullane Feb. 28, 1944
Rheumatics
Ned Leahy Leahy, Patrick 67 Ballybunion March 22, 1916 Lenane, William 72 Derra Feb. 29, 1924 Lenane May 4, 1919 Linane, Hannah 31 Laca May 6, 1916 Linane, Patrick 60 Derra June 25, 1940 Long, Catherine 75 Gortnaskeha Nov. 28, 1912 Long, John 71 Gortnaskeha June 19, 1940 Long, Kitty 24 Ahafona July 6, 1939
"8th" crossed out. Long, Thomas 58 Ahafona Sept. 13, 1942 Lynch, Bridie 17 Urlee Jan. 26, 1937 Lynch, Daniel 93 Doon Jan. 31, 1933 Lynch, Denis 87 Doon Jan. 15, 1913 Lynch, Denis 63 Ballybunion Oct. 14, 1946
Kidney disease Lynch, Ellen 74 Doon May 22, 1917 Lynch, Ellie 46 Doon Nov. 18, 1917 Lynch, Hanora 80 Lahashra May 8, 1925 Lynch, James 74 Lahashra April 9, 1928 Lynch, Johanna 86 Doon Jan. 2, 1916 Lynch, John 65 Ballyeigh Jan. 8, 1919 Lynch, John 88 Lahashra Dec. 21, 1935 Lynch, John 91 Ballybunion May 31, 1945
Old age
Michael Lynch Lynch, Kate 76 Doon April 26, 1943
Old age
Patrick Nolan Lynch, Katherine 94 Doon Dec. 31, 1916 Lynch, Katherine 82 Laheshra April 24, 1937 Lynch, Margaret 50 Ballybunion Dec. 31, 1916 Lynch, Margaret 84 Gortnaskeha Jan. 21, 1929 Lynch, Mary 20 Urlee Aug. 4, 1937 Lynch, Maurice Lahashra Sept. 2, 1938 Lynch, Michael 11 m Abbeyfeale April 3, 1942 Lynch, Mortimer 52 Doon Dec. 28, 1917 Lynch, Patrick 72 Doon May 14, 1923 Lynch, Patrick 24 Lahashra Feb. 10, 1940 Lynch, Patrick 89 Urlee March 20, 1947
Old age
John Lynch Lynch, Thomas 59 Laheshra May 7, 1935 Lynch, Timothy 39 Barna Oct. 1, 1927 Lyons, Catherine 72 Gahard Nov. 22, 1930
"Kissane" crossed out. Lyons, Katie 27 Doon July 6, 1924 Lyons, Mary 82 Doon June 5, 1939 Lyons, Patrick 69 Doon Jan. 29, 1914 Lyons, Thomas 39 Doon March 9, 1933 Madagan, Mary 68 Barna Nov. 24, 1920 Madden, Elisabeth 24 Leenamoore April 7, 1922 Madden, John 64 Kilgarvin Jan. 5, 1915 Madden, John 85 Kilgarvan March 12, 1926 Madden, John 68 Kilgarvin March 7, 1942 Madden, Nicholas 72 Kilgarvin April 25, 1919 Madden, Nora 84 Kilgarvin Jan. 13, 1939 Madden, Thomas 31 Kilgarvin Aug. 22, 1912 Madden, Thomas 59 Kilgarvin Aug. 28, 1912 Maguire, Nora 85 Co Home Killarney Feb. 21, 1947
Old age Mahony, Ann 68 Rahonoo Feb. 15, 1912 Mahony, James 75 Urlee March 20, 1915 Mahony, James 63 Killarney March 30, 1935 Mahony, Margaret 18 m Ballybunion Dec. 19, 1915 Mahony, Mary Ann 83 Ballybunion May 29, 1929 Mahony, Patrick 86 Doonferrice June 22, 1931
"29th"Crossed out. Mangan, Bridget 1 Ballyeigh Feb. 11, 1922 Mangan, Ellen 73 Tullamore March 21, 1912 McCabe, Johanna 68 Ballybunion Dec. 3, 1928 McCabe, Michael 69 Ballybunion Nov. 23, 1943
Heart failure
William McCabe McCabe, Richard 10.5 Ballybunion Dec. 18, 1942
Heart
Kidneys
Liam McCabe McCarthy, Charles 92 Ballylongford Oct. 28, 1934 McCarthy, Jermiah 85 Doon May 23, 1927 McCarthy, John 79 Doon Oct. 24, 1926 McCarthy, Margaret 76 Doon June 21, 1920 McCarthy, Mary 80 Ballyoneen April 23, 1940
"Mrs T" crossed out. McCarthy, Patrick 56 Ballybunion Jan. 26, 1918 McCarthy, Patrick 81 Doon Nov. 30, 1924 McCarthy, Thomas 19 Doon Oct. 21, 1914 McCarthy, Thomas 80 Doon Feb. 18, 1921 McCarthy, Thomas 83 Ballyoneen Jan. 9, 1937 McCauley, John Anthony 7 Ballybunion March 29, 1932
"McAuliffe" crossed out. McElligot, John 82 Croughdarrig March 21, 1919 McElligott, Eugane 46 Kilcolman Feb. 16, 1924 McElligott, Margaret 70 Ballybunion May 16, 1943
Growth
Timothy McElligott McElligott, Timothy 76 Dromin May 24, 1923 McEnery, Catherine 70 Ballybunion Oct. 7, 1930 McKenna, Mary 64 Ballyeigh March 19, 1930 McKenna, Ned 67 Lahashra June 28, 1927 McMahon, Bridget 63 Crough Feb. 16, 1919 McMahon, Denis 80 Ballybunion Dec. 28, 1941 McMahon, Hannah 73 Ballybunion June 5, 1935 McMahon, James 84 Ballybunion Jan. 9, 1938 McMahon, Jermiah 95 Ballybunion Aug. 19, 1925 McMahon, Jermiah 65 Ballyoneen Sept. 12, 1926 McMahon, Joan 2 Ballybunion Nov. 1, 1946
Convulsions
Michael McMahon McMahon, Johanna 65 Ballybunion Aug. 10, 1915 McMahon, Johanna Ballybunion May 10, 1941 McMahon, Martin 36 Crough Sept. 26, 1929 McMahon, Martin 85 Crough March 18, 1943
Old age
Thomas McMahon McMahon, Mary 83 Ballynoneen June 23, 1915 McMahon, Richard 78 Ballybunion Nov. 25, 1940 McSweeney, Mary Ann 57 Kilarda Feb. 5, 1931 Moore, Elisabeth 91 Ballyeigh Oct. 10, 1946
Old age
Timothy Leahy Moran, Anne 56 Doon Sept. 27, 1913
Dropsy Moran, Mary 82 Larha July 25, 1920 Moran, Michael 84 Doon Dec. 24, 1933 Moriarty, Eugene 92 Gortnaskeha Jan. 25, 1925 Moriarty, Hanna 30 Lacabee May 30, 1916 Moriarty, Micheal 84 Lacca Jan. 8, 1926 Moriarty, Mrs 75 Ballingown May 6, 1918
"April" crossed out. Moriarty, Nora 85 Lahanes May 25, 1919 Mulvihill, Cornelious 54 Leenchaune Nov. 25, 1914 Mulvihill, Daniel 72 Gortnaskeha March 3, 1942 Mulvihill, Daniel 27 Gullane Jan. 8, 1944
Diphtheria
Thomas Mulvihill Mulvihill, Deborah 59 Rahoono March 1, 1937 Mulvihill, Delia 17 Leansaghane June 10, 1912 Mulvihill, Ellen 84 Ballyconry Jan. 15, 1942 Mulvihill, Hanna 75 Laccabee Feb. 3, 1940 Mulvihill, Hanna 54 Ballybunion Aug. 31, 1942 Mulvihill, Johanna 75 Gortnaskeha Feb. 26, 1921 Mulvihill, Johanna 70 Gortnaskeha March 12, 1944
Cancer
James O'Connor Mulvihill, John 98 Gortnaskeha Feb. 9, 1917 Mulvihill, John 68 Mevoo Jan. 20, 1924 Mulvihill, Julia 85 Ballybunion March 15, 1947
Old age
Cornelious Mulvihill Mulvihill, Margaret 73 Kilconly Jan. 24, 1932 Mulvihill, Mary 75 Doon Dec. 3, 1913 Mulvihill, Mary 26 Lynchaun Feb. 17, 1918 Mulvihill, Michael 51 Union Oct. 11, 1922 Mulvihill, Michael 3 Rahoono Sept. 21, 1944
Meningitis
Patrick Mulvihill Mulvihill, Norah 84 Lacabee April 23, 1916 Mulvihill, Patrick 30 Mevoo Aug. 14, 1926 Mulvihill, Patrick 70 Tarbert May 14, 1931 Mulvihill, Robin 75 Gortnaskeha March 20, 1919 Mulvihill, William 49 Gortnaskeha July 2, 1926 Murphy, Catherine Carmel 10 m Lahardane April 24, 1947
Stomach
Joseph Murphy Murphy, Daniel 77 Dromin Sept. 26, 1920 Murphy, Daniel 43 Ballybunion June 11, 1928 Murphy, Edmond 11 Laheshra Aug. 3, 1918 Murphy, Edward 65 Ballybunion Nov. 11, 1929 Murphy, Gerthie 27 Ballybunion Dec. 14, 1930 Murphy, Hanna 56 Ballynoneen Feb. 27, 1925 Murphy, Johanna 78 Dromin March 23, 1923 Murphy, John 41 Ballyeigh Oct. 15, 1918 Murphy, John 26 Lahardane June 23, 1930 Murphy, John Francis 1 day Ballyeigh Oct. 4, 1945
Weak heart
John Murphy Murphy, Mary 40 Lahardane July 17, 1915 Murphy, Mary 54 Commons May 20, 1927 Murphy, Michael 94 Doon June 19, 1913 Murphy, Michael 35 Doon July 22, 1927 Murphy, Michael 74 Lahardane July 31, 1932 Murphy, Michael 86 Lahardane Feb. 4, 1944
Old age
Joseph Murphy Murphy, Ned 74 Lahardan March 11, 1919 Murphy, Ned 2 m Doon March 17, 1926 Murphy, Nora 51 Ballyeigh June 20, 1928 Murphy, Nora 46 Doon Feb. 25, 1934 Murphy, Patrick 8 m Doon Oct. 3, 1930 Murphy, Willie 4 m Doon Oct. 13, 1922




Killehenny Burial Grounds, Ballybunion Townland, Killehenny
Name Age Residence Date
Cause of Death
Applicant for Grave
Nagle, Patrick 17 Ahafona July 17, 1912
Nash, Bridget 78 Dromin May 6, 1915
Neenan, John 26 Gullane July 12, 1914
Neenan, Mary (Mrs.) 85 Gullane July 19, 1938
Neenan, Patrick 81 Gullane Dec. 7, 1935
Nelin, Mary 65 Hopogue July 20, 1913
Newman, Ellen 1 Ballybunion July 24, 1918
Nolan, Cornelious 79 Moybella Oct. 10, 1929
Nolan, Cris 25 Moybella March 31, 1939
Nolan, Johanna 77 Moybella Nov. 25, 1911
Nolan, Mary 25 Moybella Oct. 2, 1912
Nolan, Mary 79 Moybella May 7, 1943
Paralysis
Maurice Nolan
Nolan, Michael 85 Moybella March 2, 1942
Nolan, Norah 45 Moybella March 31, 1918
Nolan, Patrick 69 Liselton Jan. 23, 1938
Nolan, Timothy 70 Moybella June 23, 1921
Nolan, Veronica M 69 Liselton Aug. 24, 1945
Rheumatics
George Nolan
Nolan, William 63 Moybella May 26, 1928
Nunan, Johanna 33 Ardfert Oct. 18, 1912

Thanks to Michael Anthony Hartney for this contribution.

 

286

William (Bill) Keane (John1) was born at Ballygrennan. He married three times. His first wife was Mary Woulfe. (For the parents of William, please refer to page 284 John Keane and Margaret Hanrahan).

William (Bill) Keane and Mary Woulfe had the following daughter.

Mary Keane. She married Mr. Mullane.

2nd wife. Ellen Shanahan.

William (Bill) Keane and Ellen Shanahan had the following son.

John Keane. He married Nano Stack. (Please refer to page 303 for the continuation line for John Keane and Nano Stack).

3rd wife. Mary Henigan.

William (Bill) Keane and Mary Henigan had the following children:

Fr. Patrick Keane. He was born in 1841. Fr. Patrick Keane went to America and became concerned at how the native Indian's were being treated by the white people. Fr. Patrick died in Sacramento, California in 1926.

Johanna Keane. She married Danny Flavin. Johanna died at 34 years of age. Danny remarried again to Kathleen Nolan. (Please see page 754).

Michael Keane. He was born in 1840. Michael married Catherine Shanahan. (Poleagh in Galey)

William (Bill) Keane. He married Margaret Moore. (Please see page 288 for the continuation line for Bill Keane and Margaret Moore).

Thade Keane. He married Margaret Gilbert.

287

Continuation of the children of William (Bill) Keane and Mary Henigan.

Jeremiah Keane. He married Mary Kissane. They lived at Lisselton and were the parents of Patrick Keane, Bishop of Sacramento, California and Sir. Michael Keane. (Please refer to page 301 for the continuation line for Jer Keane and Mary Kissane).

James Keane. He married Miss. Harty. (Public House in Listowel)

Maurice Keane. He was born in 1849. Maurice married Margaret Moore. Keylod, Moyvane. (Margaret is the daughter of Thomas Moore and Bridget Madigan. Please see page 720).

Frank Keane. He remained single.

Con Keane. He was born in 1833. Con married Mai O'Connor of Tullamore. (Please refer to page 305 for the continuation line for Con Keane and Mai O'Connor).

Pydge Keane.

Ellen Keane. She married Mr. Michael J. Nolan. MCC, JP. Newtownsandes. He first married Maria Moore from Keylod, Moyvane. She was a near cousin of Bishop James Moore of Melbourne, Australia. (Please see page 747 for Michael Nolan's 1st. wife, Maria Moore).

(Please see page 708 for the continuation line for Michael Nolan and Ellen Keane).
288

 

William (Bill) Keane. He married Margaret Moore. He was the son of William (Bill) Keane and Mary Henigan. (Please see page 286).

 

William (Bill) Keane and Margaret Moore had the following children.

Mary Keane. She married William (Bill) Stack of Moynsha, Duagh. (Please see page 289 for the continuation line for Bill Stack and Mary Keane).
289

William (Bill) Stack of Moynsha, Duagh. He married Mary Keane. She is the daughter of Wiiliam (Bill) Keane and Margaret Moore. (Please see page 288).

 

Bill Stack and Mary Keane had the following children.

Maurice Stack.

Moore/ Kennelly

As far as I know, Johanna Kennelly of Newtownsandes (b. 1843?) married Patrick Moore in Ireland. Their Children were Catherine, Honorah Mary (my great-grandmother), Mary, Michael, and William. Patrick Moore seems to have died in Ireland, whereupon the rest of the family emigrated to the U.S. Here I have conflicting information - it may have been 1872 or 1881, but the former is more likely. The family came through Philadelphia and went to Pittsburgh, PA, later moving to New York, which is where my family's from.

 

 

 

Name MICHAEL MOORE Date of Birth 13 May 1869 (BASED ON OTHER DATE INFORMATION) Address CLAAR Father PATRICK MOORE Mother JOHANNA KINNELLY

 

Name MICHAEL MOORE Date of Birth 13 May 1869 (BASED ON OTHER DATE INFORMATION) Address CLAAR Father PATRICK MOORE Mother JOHANNA KINNELLY

 

 

 

Moyvane; Name MARY MOORE Date of Birth 6 January 1862 (BASED ON OTHER DATE INFORMATION) Address MOYVANE Father PATRICK MOORE Mother JOHANNA KENNELLY

 

 

Name WILLIAM MOORE Date of Birth 31 January 1864 (BASED ON OTHER DATE INFORMATION) Address MOYVANE Father PATRICK MOORE Mother JOHANNA KENNELLY

 

Name CATHERINE MOORE Date of Birth 24 April 1867 (BASED ON OTHER DATE INFORMATION) Address CLAAR Father PATRICK MOORE Mother JOHANNA KENNELLY

 

 

Name BRIDGET KENNELLY Date of Birth 1 September 1855 (BASED ON OTHER DATE INFORMATION) Address LEITRIM Father CORNELIUS KENNELLY Mother MARGARET MOORE

 

 

 

Gortdromagowna; Name JAMES MOORE Date of Birth 13 December 1841 (BASED ON OTHER DATE INFORMATION) Address GORTAMAGONA Father WILLIAM MOORE Mother JOHANNA CONNELL

 

Name MARGARET MOORE Date of Birth 3 June 1849 (BASED ON OTHER DATE INFORMATION) Address GORTAMAGONA Father WILLIAM MOORE Mother MARGARET CONNELL

 

 

7th Feb. 1836 ; HusbandWifeName WILLIAM MOORE JOHANNA CONNELL Address NR AUGHRIM Occupation NR NR Father NR MOORE NR NR

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 1825 a faction fight took place at Shanagolden, County Limerick -- the O'Briens and the MacMahons on one side, the Griffins and Sheehans on the other. The encounter involved an estimated 500 combatants.

 

fights took place on June 24, 1834, , when 3,000 participants, the Coolens on one side, with Lawlors, Blacks and Mulvihills fought each other at Ballyeigh Races

 

 

 

 

 

STACK Family Group Record

(O'CONNOR, LYNCH , MURPHY)

Donated by: Peggy Stack Kimbell

 

Husband:

John STACK

b. 24 June 1824 Co Kerry, Ireland

Father: James STACK, Mother: Mary MURPHY

d. 13 Feb 1899 El Paso, Woodford Co, Illinois, USA

Catholic, emigrated 1841 Co Kerry>America>Illinois

 

Spouse:

Winnefred O'CONNOR

b. Sept 1841 Co Mayo

Father: Martin O'CONNOR, Mother: Margaret MULDOWNEY

d. 16 June 1900 El Paso, Woodford Co, Illinois, USA

Catholic, emigrated 1852 Co Mayo> America> Illinois

 

Children:

 

1) female Mary STACK

b. 1 March 1857 Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois

d. 9 Oct 1879 Gridley Township, McLean Co, Illinois

 

2) female Margaret STACK

b. 10 June 1859 Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois

m. 21 June 1893 William KEENAN Peoria, Illinois

d. 15 Jan 1932 Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois

 

3) male James Thomas STACK

b. 13 Sept 1861 Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois

m. 21 Jan 1899 Catherine Teresa LYNCH Tippecanoe Co, Indiana

d. 9 Sept 1929 Shelton, Nebraska

 

4) female Anna STACK

b. 3 Oct 1863 Peoria, Illinois

m. 1906 Frank Michael MAHONEY Denver, Colorado

d. 1 Feb 1950 Peoria, Illinois

 

5) male James S. STACK

b. 18 Dec 1864 Peoria, Illinois

d. 1 June 1937 Peoria, Illinois

 

6) male Bartholomew Matthew STACK

b. 3 May 1868 Peoria, Illinois

m. 1899 Julia BONNER Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois

d. 1 Sept 1939 Manistee, Michigan

 

7) female Winnefred Bernice STACK

b. 9 Sept 1870 El Paso, Woodford Co, Illinois

m. 6 July 1906 John Mark HANIFIN Denver, Colorado

d. 22 Feb 1933 Peoria, Illinois

 

8) male Edward STACK

b. 4 Aug 1873 Gridley Township, McLean Co, Illinois

d. 19 April 1874 Gridley Township, McLean Co, Illinois

 

9) male Martin Andrew STACK

b. 31 Mar 1875 Gridley Township, McLean Co, Illinois

m. 24 Jan 1900 Catherine CLEARY El Paso, Woodford Co, Illinois

d. 15 Oct 1951 El Paso, Woodford Co, Illinois

 

10) male William STACK

b. 2 Oct 1877 Gridley Township, McLean Co, Illinois

d. 29 April 1910 Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois

 

 

 

O FLAHERTY teacher diary

 

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/diaryfla.html

 

Kildaremen at the battle of Malplaquet, 11 September 1709

 

By James Durney

 

‘The most sanguinary battle of the War of the Spanish Succession was fought

at Malplaquet, a place nearly astride the modern Franco-Belgian border. The

fate of France hung in the balance, the reputations of Marlborough

(1650-1722) and Prince Eugene (1663-1736) were at stake, France was

virtually bankrupt and a decisive outcome in favour of the Allies would have

led to the occupation of Paris. The Irish regiments in the pay of France

played an important role in this battle, as they did in many other major

encounters during the War of the Spanish Succession,’ so wrote Eoghan Ó

hAnnracháin in ‘The battle of Malplaquet, 11 September 1709,’ in Vol. xxvi

of The Irish Sword (Winter 2009).

The Spanish king, Charles II ruled a vast empire, which included Spain,

Latin America (except for Brazil), the Philippines, Belgium, Sardinia, and

large rich parts of Italy – Milan, Tuscany, Naples, and Sicily. As Charles

was childless and in poor health there were four potential heirs – Philip

Duke of Anjou, grandson of France’s Louis XIV; the Emperor Joseph I; the

Archduke Charles VI; and Joseph Ferdinand, Prince of Bavaria. On his

deathbed Charles II named the Duke of Anjou (who spoke no Spanish) as his

successor. Anjou was now Philip V of Spain and through right of succession

heir to the throne of France, and while Louis XIV had signed an earlier

peace with England and Holland the spectre of a united kingdom of France and

Spain was worrying. A major war was inevitable.

There were four main theatres of war: northern Italy, Germany, the Spanish

Netherlands, and Spain. Irish troops, in the armies of France and Spain, the

famed Wild Geese, fought in all the major engagements and suffered heavy

casualties. Early in 1702 the reputation of the Irish regiments was enhanced

by the successful defence of Cremona. A major role in the defence was played

by the regiments of Dillon and Burke. (The Austrian army at Cremona also

contained Irishmen, who tried to parley with their compatriots on the

opposite side.) Three Irish regiments fought at Blenheim: Clare’s, Lee’s,

and the guards. Clare’s was singled out for praise by the French for its

work in covering the retreat of the French army. At Ramilles Clare’s

regiment again distinguished itself, capturing a colour, which was presented

to the Irish nuns at Ypres. At Almanza (1707), the major battle in the

Spanish sector, Berwick with his Irish regiment defeated an English army

under the Huguenot earl of Galway. (The British army had several regular

Irish regiments and another twenty were raised during the war.)

After some initial successes by 1709 the French were on the verge of defeat

and sought desperately to obtain peace. At Malplaquet 120,000 British and

Dutch troops faced a French army of 80,000, which included five Irish

regiments of infantry and one of cavalry. Here the Allied momentum was lost

against a solid French defence which turned defeat into victory. The Irish

fought well, capturing many English standards, and their steadfastness and

courage under fire won them much praise. The Irish were brigaded together,

and the marquis de Quincy, in his account of the battle, refers to them as

the Irish brigade ‘which overthrew everything before it’. The battle was one

of the bloodiest and was not surpassed in violence until battles of the

Napoleonic war of a century later.

While no detailed account of the Irish rank and file losses exists a

detailed listing of the officer casualties does exist. A total of 850

officers were killed, wounded and captured, of whom 85 were Irish – 23

killed, 60 wounded and 2 captured. Two of the Irish mentioned in the

registers of the Invalides were Kildaremen – Garret Fitzgerald and Hugo

Lalor. To obtain the status of an invalid one had to have sustained a

serious injury, and (usually) had to have twenty years’ service and an

honourable discharge from his regiment.

Garret Fitzgerald; 47 years; Castledermot, County Kildare; soldier,

Christopher Fitzgerald’s company, Clare [formerly Lee and Rothe] regiment,

where he served 21 years, per his certificate dated 12.12.1723. He suffered

from a blow of a musket butt to his right arm which he received at

Malplaquet and which made him unfit for service. Admitted 23.12.1723.

Hugo Lalor; 45 years; Kildare; soldier, Butler’s company, Dorrington

[formerly the King of England’s Guards] regiment, where he served over 20

years per his certificate. He said he had served 4 years previously in

Ireland. His left leg was crippled and his right leg was badly injured by

gunshot wounds at Malplaquet; unfit for service; admitted 12.6.1711.

After Malplaquet there were no more major battles and in Spain the war took

a turn for the worse for the Allies. The conflict ended in 1713 with the

signing of the Treaty of Utrecht bringing the War of the Spanish Succession

to a close.

 

 

 

 

More Shine Knockanure

info

 

Firstly, an Alien Immigration Manifest. 13 May 1899 SS Campania. Queenstown Co Cork to New York.

 

Line 25 Ticket No 4711 Bridget Moore Age- 14 (?) Sex- F.

Married or Single- S. Calling or Occupation- Servant.

Able to Read- yes. Write- yes. Nationality- Irish.

Last Residence- NewtownSandes.

Seaport for landing in the United States- New York.

Final destination in the United States- New Jersey.

Whether having a ticket to such destination- yes.

By whom was passage paid- self.

Whether in possession of money. If so, whether more than $30 and how much if $30 or less- $0 (?)

Whether over before to the United States . . . No.

Whether going to join a relative . . . (appears blank)

Ever in Prison or Almshouse or supported by charity . . . No.

Whether a Polygamist- No.

Whether under Contract, express or implied . . . No.

Condition of Health, Mental and Physical- Good.

Deformed or Crippled . . . No.

 

I googled "NewtownSandes" and found you! I am sorry to say that I never have heard of NewtownSandes although I have lived in Co. Mayo for the last 22 years. I now realise that the village's name has been officially changed to Moyvane.

 

another document . . .

Ellis Island Certificate. Found the same Bridget Moore.

 

and a transcript of a Baptismal Record. Same Bridget. Her address given as "Benanaspug". I've seen "Benanaspug" spelled as "Beenanaspig" in other sources.

 

Father: William Moore. Mother: Margaret Shine.

 

 

 

By Peg Prendeville

 

A little bit of local history: I was interested to hear my neighbour, Jack O’Grady, talking about the “Broken Bridges” recently. For those of you who do not know, the Broken Bridges are in the little road connecting the Clounleharde Ballyhahill road below Kenrick’s to “Mary Mairtín’s cross” on the Kearney’s Bakery road. The road was built shortly before 1807 (Recollections of our Native Valley – page 302). The present concrete bridge over the river Abha Bhán was built in 1925 – ninety years ago. Before that there were two timber bridges, one over the Abha Bhán and one over the Abha Dubh. Jack says his father used to tell him that the people then, including Jack’s father, used them as dancing platforms due to the timber structure. They obviously broke down necessitating the building of one concrete one but the name “Broken Bridges” remain to this day.