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Pwaldron, your grandfather John Waldron of Limerick is also in a collection on Ancestry called the British Postal Service Appointment books, not sure if you have seen those already but I found my grandfather in there and looked for yours as well

That sounds like the correct festival, thank you! This looks to be a poem about the author's fear of losing the Irish language, which would certainly be appropriate for the described festival. Good find!

Hello everyone, I have an article (see below) of my great great grandfather, John Halpin, attending an "Irish festival" that "lasted a week" in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. This article was published world-wide, but in seemingly random papers/journals around the beginning of 1899. If you read the artic...

It is close but it doesn't include information from the 1911 Census. The map system you are referencing was where I got the idea for this map. That map system is pretty cool, but in the 60 seconds I spent looking through it, I did not find a way to overlay all three at once (Tithe, Griffith's and 19...

Hopefully this is useful to somebody, and if not, hopefully it can be useful to me. I took a map that I found of the the civil parishes of Co. Clare, then found all people of the surname "Halpin" in the Tithe Applotment Griffith's Valuation 1901 Ireland Census 1911 Ireland Census and then colour-cod...

Very good information. Thank you very much for the input!

Hello everyone, Looking for some input regarding education and occupations in the mid to late 19th century. Generally speaking, if generalities can be applied here anyway, was it fairly universal in Co. Clare for a person to attend and finish primary school? Either way, would a person that became a ...

Hello everyone, Just looking for some general input, etc. on this topic, as it relates to my ancestors. I made a list of everyone born in Clare reported to be over 50 years of age that showed up in the 1911 Census living outside of Co. Clare, and arranged this list county (alphabetically) and arrang...