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This is the first time I have come across "First Cousin" on a census return apparently meaning "grandchild": Mary E Casey and Katie Casey were enumerated in 1901 in their grandfather's household in Lack East . They were also apparently double counted in their parents' household in Glenconaun More . ...

I stumbled on this post after coming across other references to Fr. Francis Griffin C.S.Sp.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Griffin_(priest) http://www.spiritan.ie/oldSite/irish_spiritans_remembered.pdf GRIFFIN, Fr Francis 1893-1983 Born 16 September 1893 in Kilmurry, Ibricken, Co. Clare, Fra...

I was reminded of this thread by a post at https://www.facebook.com/groups/countyclare/permalink/3539216449482787/ by an American claiming "McMahan [sic] ancestry" whose "ancestors built Carrigaholt Castle in County Clare". This got me looking for a published pedigree of the MacMahons of Carrigaholt...

There is another discussion of this estate at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/countyc ... 833628516/

There are a number of extensive online discussions of Matt Breen from Lakyle in Killofin parish who ended up in St. Paul, Minnesota: https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-database/mathias-breen https://irelandxo.com/ireland/clare/killofin/message-board/looking-memories-bree...

Great finds, Linda. Have you also been updating the Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Johnston ? The register of baptisms in Kilkee parish, like most baptismal registers, does not indicate in which of the churches in the parish the baptism took place; John Johnston was more likel...

There is another discussion of Dysart House, which is apparently in the townland of Ballynote East, at
https://www.facebook.com/Mr.PaulOBrien/ ... 9713632541

I see you have found some well-known descendants of James O'Gorman from Bunratty Castle:

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/round ... -connecti/

For the last few weeks, all searches on this forum have returned:

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Can the search backend be resurrected?

I don't think that Breen & UaCroinín have gotten around to publishing on Carrigaholt Castle in the Other Clare yet - there is nothing to indicate that they have done so in the table of contents at https://tbreen.home.xs4all.nl/Journals/Clare.html Hugh Weir does cover Carrigaholt Castle and Cottage o...

The reference is surely to Carrigaholt Castle, which is in Rinemackaderrig townland.

What is your source?

Jean Am I correct in thinking that your aunt Catherine Tubridy married John F (Seán, Jack) McGrath with whom she ran a shop in Moore Street before they emigrated to Canada in 1955? I spent a very interesting day in the National Folklore Collection in University College Dublin last Friday, reading th...

I'm not sure which Crowe this is: https://www.duchas.ie/ga/cbes/5162147/5158776/5198240 Westby had a sub agent in Querrin named Crowe who was very hard. At last Westby gathered all the tenants together and compared their rent receipts with the amounts actually received by him through Crowe. Finding ...

Clarefield is two townlands east of Querrin, so this may be your Luke Crowe:

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/se ... earchfocus

James Crowe was a widower when he died in 1889, so his second wife must be the only Ann* Crowe whose death was registered in Kilrush between their marriage and his death. !DEATH: Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958 Name: Anne Crowe Estimated birth year: abt 1807 Date of Registration:...