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I’ve been looking through your excellent list of Emigrants from Scariff through Ellis Island on Clare Library website. I find that my grandmother Ellen Riordan Gurtaderra Scariff Is missing from list. She travelled to US with her sister Anna, arriving Ellis Island Sept 30th 1915. Anna is on your lis...

Hi
1901 census shows 364 moroneys in Clare
Please give more details if you can.


As I live in East, Clare Retired , have much time to Check Files etc.

Mike O'Gorman,Scariff historian states
that young Egan was one of the Scariff lads shot on the bridge at
Killaloe.

My Father Named person number 43 as Michael Egan one of the “ Scariff martyrs” I would appreciate if anyone can verify this.

Raheen Staff 1915 New scan of negative showing all 43 people including Conor Clune

The attached 3 pages were missing from previous post. Pages 43 and 44 are scanned from original , page 27 transcribed as original was damaged.

Gurtaderra by Martin Nugent Pages 25 to 35.

Please ignore page numbers on document as some pages are missing

Gurtaderra by Martin Nugent Pages 13 to 24.

Please ignore page numbers on document as some pages are missing

The attached was written by one Martin Nugent a native of Gortaderra townland which is next to Corrakyle townland. Martin was retired when he compiled this. At that time (1978) documents relating to family history were not as readily available as today, eg. to inspect the 1901 census it was necessar...

This photograph was in my fathers house in Tuamgraney . About 10 years ago I made a copy of it and asked my father who was app. 90 years old at the time, to give me its background. He thought that it was taken circa 1915; it was taken in front of Raheen House Tuamgraney and shows Edward McLysaght an...