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Well, I am back quickly to say I am wrong about the Caherbanna Keanes having a shop in Ennis. I’ve looked at my own old notes and see that there was a Keane family living in Ballyashea, Kilnamona, who also used the name “Myles” or “Miles”. A Myles Keane died in 1879, in Market Street, Ennis, aged 70...

Although that newspaper report gives James Brady, seed merchant, as the employer of Daniel Considine, I still think it possible that Daniel lived with the Keanes in Gaol Street. I think that James “Brady” was James Brody; the record of death of a James Brody, in 1888, gives his occupation as Farmer,...

For a biography of Aodh Buí, see "Aodh Buí Mac Crúitín (c.1680-1755)", by Michael Mac Mahon: https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/bardic/aodh_mac_cruitin.htm Mac Mahon says that the dictionary includes an introductory poem by Mac Crúitín, in which he exhorts his country men and women...

says a headline in the Irish Times today, January 18, 2025. In an article by Sylvia Thomson, on page 18, she gives a short description of some of the items being sold online by Co. Offaly bookseller, Conor Purcell, including a dictionary part-written by Aodh Buí Mac Crúitín: A first edition of one o...

I found another well, also in the parish of Dysert (or Dysert O'Dea), which is a much better match for "Springmouth". It is Tobar RabhartaÍ: https://heritage.clareheritage.org/places/holy-wells/tobar-rabhartai-toberarraghta-sometimes-called-tobar-oireachta-dysert-odea-kileenan. "Rabharta" means "ove...

Hi Sharon, I'm sorry for confusing the matter by introducing Thaddeus Brew, who married Mary Curtin. It was the appearance of Catherine Schnell on that page of the Brew One Name Study that made me think I was on the right track. And I see now that I was mistaken in giving Thaddeus's year of death as...

Hi Sharon, Thank you for posting about Catherine Brew Shnell. Her mother, Mary, was Mary Curtin, a relative of Roland Curtin, who is the subject of a post made by me in July 2016, entitled “Roland Curtin born in Dysert, in 1764”: http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=6798 Looking at the Br...

Hi Barry,

Wikipedia has a piece on one Nicholas Purcell, born in 1651, commissioned Captain on 12 Feb 1686 in the army enrolled by Lord Tyrconnell to uphold the cause of King Jame II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_ ... f_Loughmoe

Sheila

Hi Darren I think you are right in guessing that it was Patrick’s wife, Kate Rodgers, who was related to Alfie Rodgers, rather than Patrick himself. Nevertheless I looked the Scarriff baptisms (1852-1872) for a Guilfoyle-Rodgers connection and found this one: the baptisms of two children of a Thomas...

Hi Jimbo Good work. Your purchase of Fr. Ignatius Murphy’s The Diocese of Killaloe: 1850-1904 is paying dividends. I too failed to find a civil record of the death of Fr. John Clune, You found that the report of his death in the Freeman’s Journal of Mon 14 Jul 1890 gave “yesterday” as the date, but ...

Hi Bev Just something to bear in mind in the course of your research is that Culligan was sometimes spelled “Quilligan”. I’ve looked at the transcription of the Kilrush (St Senan’s) baptisms and see that Sinon’s surname was always spelled Culligan, so that bit of information may not apply to your fa...

Hi Jimbo, When I first read your comment: … would have found it extremely difficult to get his teammates, 16 other Irishmen, to agree upon anything, let alone … I thought those words might have been taken from a report, or letter written at the time, but I see from your reply that the comment is you...

Hi Jimbo Thank you for that very interesting post, especially the work you’ve done on the (at least) four Claremen on the Wolfe Tone team of Brooklyn. I noticed that wrestling is associated with football rather than with hurling. The 1904 photo of the team is indeed a great photo. Here is a photo of...

Hi Jimbo You have done much work on the subject of hurling in a very short time. I found your posting very interesting, and it prompted me to re-read the article you mentioned (by Daniel McCarthy). A book entitled Feakle , by Kieran Sheedy, published by Feakle GAA Hurling Club, 1990, is probably ano...

Hi Jimbo I'm glad you found the sheet music for On Raglan Road for the button accordion. And I'm delighted to tell you that Clare won the All Ireland hurling final on Sunday. They won by a whisker and it was very exciting. It was a wonderful display of speed and skill, combined. The players play jus...