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by darrenoconaill
Sat Oct 30, 2021 10:16 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Question Kilfenora ? Ennis ?
Replies: 1
Views: 2442

Re: Question Kilfenora ? Ennis ?

Hi Margaret,

I'm coming to this a bit late so you might have figured it out already.

I've been looking at the army records for John Lawrence Lingard - he enlisted in a place called St. Paul's Churchyard which is in London.

Whitechapel Road is around 1.5 miles east of here.

Regards,

Darren
by darrenoconaill
Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:29 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Plunder & Piracy
Replies: 3
Views: 3179

Re: Plunder & Piracy

Hi again Kerry, the four men mentioned in the article https://roundaboutshannon.clareheritage.org/new-contributions/the-cearnach-mcmahon all appear in the National Archives Irish Transportation Database: Pat Hickey - http://findingaids.nationalarchives.ie/index.php?simpleSearchSbm=true&searchDescTxt...
by darrenoconaill
Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:00 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Smith's Island
Replies: 13
Views: 7589

Re: Smith's Island

Glad you enjoyed it Sheila.

Credit for the map and presentation to John O’Brien on the site.

Darren
by darrenoconaill
Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:58 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Plunder & Piracy
Replies: 3
Views: 3179

Re: Plunder & Piracy

Thanks Kerry. Is there a possibility you might have connections to some of the people mentioned in the article? I first became interested in the story as my mother is a McMahon whose folks came from that area and I was trying to prove a link to the Cearnach - which I haven’t been able to do :( Darren
by darrenoconaill
Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:22 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Smith's Island
Replies: 13
Views: 7589

Re: Smith's Island

Hi Sheila, the piece about plunder and piracy that I referred to in my previous post was recently published on the link below. Unfortunately the article was submitted before you solved the puzzle of Smith’s Island so it hasn’t been amended to reflect your detective work! Thanks again for your help i...
by darrenoconaill
Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:00 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Smith's Island
Replies: 13
Views: 7589

Re: Smith's Island

Hi Sheila, That’s some incredible investigative work you have done there! I’ve found some more references to a John Greene living on Smith’s Island in 1867 in the Petty Sessions and two references to a John Smith living on Smith’s Island in 1841 and 1843! I also found this from the Clare Journal of ...
by darrenoconaill
Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:32 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Smith's Island
Replies: 13
Views: 7589

Re: Smith's Island

Thanks Sheila,

I hadn't considered that translation. I will investigate further.

Regards,

Darren
by darrenoconaill
Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:51 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Smith's Island
Replies: 13
Views: 7589

Smith's Island

Hi Folks, I've come across some references in the newspaper archives (1840s) to a Smith's Island in the River Fergus. I know some islands were often named after those families living there at the time (eg. Melican's Island, Nix's Island) but Smith's has me stumped. One suggestion is that it's not an...
by darrenoconaill
Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:44 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: migration from county to county
Replies: 4
Views: 10180

Re: migration from county to county

I also have ancestors who moved counties. In my case my great-grandmother and her sister moved from Caherciveen in Co.Kerry to Cratloe in the late 1800s to work as domestic servants. At the risk of repeating Blondie's original question, how common was it for people to move such a long distance (in t...
by darrenoconaill
Sun Oct 16, 2016 9:18 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Monastic Surnames?
Replies: 1
Views: 6518

Re: Monastic Surnames?

Not sure about your second question but in relation to your first there are two interesting Irish surnames both of which may show evidence of Irish clergy having wifes and indeed children: McTaggart (Mac an tSagairt) meaning 'son of the priest' and McAnespie (Mac an Easpaig) meaning 'son of the bish...
by darrenoconaill
Mon Jun 20, 2016 9:32 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: 'Cearnach' McMahon
Replies: 10
Views: 23118

Re: 'Cearnach' McMahon

Thanks to all for your replies. This is becoming very interesting. Just a bit of background on the Cearnach - I'm doing a bit of transcribing for Duchas on the School's Collection and came across a story about the Cearnach McMahon in Ballycalla during the famine who shot the cable of a ship on the r...
by darrenoconaill
Thu Jun 16, 2016 2:57 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: 'Cearnach' McMahon
Replies: 10
Views: 23118

Re: 'Cearnach' McMahon

Thanks Paddy. I had heard of Conal Cearnach and the word appears on various sites as meaning 'victorious' etc. But it doesn't explain why this McMahon in Ballycalla was called Cearnach. I guess what I'd really like to know is what his real first name was but there's nothing that looks like it on Gri...
by darrenoconaill
Thu Jun 16, 2016 11:32 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: 'Cearnach' McMahon
Replies: 10
Views: 23118

'Cearnach' McMahon

Hi Folks, have been reading through the Irish Folklore Commision and came across a reference to a 'The Cearnach McMahon' in the Ballycalla area near Newmarket on Fergus. As I'm pretty sure 'Cearnach' wasn't his first name I'm just wondering could anyone explain what Cearnach means - could it be a ni...
by darrenoconaill
Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:40 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Bridgetown Graveyard
Replies: 7
Views: 13376

Re: Bridgetown Graveyard

No problem. Let me know if you need any help.
by darrenoconaill
Sun Nov 10, 2013 6:34 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Bridgetown Graveyard
Replies: 7
Views: 13376

Re: Bridgetown Graveyard

Hi Skyrish2us,

I live in Killaloe which is quite near Bridgetown. I'd be willing to go to the graveyard and check it out for you if you tell me what/who you're looking for.

Darren