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This query relates to two adjacent properties that lie on each side of the boundary between the townlands of Drumellihy(Cunningham) and Drumellihy(Westropp) in Kilmacduane Parish. In Griffiths Valuation the former property was occupied by Edmund Callanan , and the latter by Daniel Campbell . In the ...

TROVE, that wonderful free resource which is so important for the Australian branch of the Clare Diaspora, is presently undergoing a radical makeover, and the new version is due for release in June. If you are quick a sneak peek at the new product went online on February 14 and will run until Februa...

OK, so I fully realise that I am years behind the times, and somewhat sheepishly, I have to admit that I have only just discovered EIRCODE, the advanced Irish postcode system. My only defence is that whilst living in the Antipodes, and doing most of my correspondence by email, I have had little need...

I have been only loosely following this thread so this may be superfluous, but the shipping record shows that a labourer Michael Carrick(33), his wife Susan(29) and three daughters Mary(11), Catherine(3) and Bridget(2) all arrived in Moreton Bay on 13 Aug 1854 on board the Monsoon, which had left Li...

I came across the following while searching for John McInerney of Parliament Street Ennistymon. It may be referenced elswhere, but a search on the ClareLib website revealed nothing specific, so I post it here anyway for general info: HELP FOR THE D.J.'S SIGNING OF DOCUMENTS The official announcement...

Hi Sheila About this time [October 1869], a dispute arose between Fr Matt Kenny, in his capacity as secretary of the Tenant Right organization, and the parish of Ballynacally. Fr. Kenny had criticised some of the motions which had been passed by them, and it provoked a stinging reply as they claimed...

Hi Sheila I have been following with interest the picture of politics in Ennis that yourself and Jim have been painting, and my interest is sharpened with your mention of the Kieran Sheedy publication. My ancestor Edward Murphy sen. was part of a Ballynacally group that was active in the lead-up to ...

Hi moranding I assume that you are refering to the Michael and Mary King that arrived in Sydney on the Admiral Lyons on 15 Sep 1857. The digital shipping list just notes their origin as "Clare". Where did you get the reference to Kilmiskydwyer? Was it the Depositors Journal, which I don't have ready...

For quite some time now the Digital Shipping Lists of Assisted Immigrants have been available on the New South Wales State Archives website. The NSW State Archives is one of a rapidly diminishing number of agencies that offer free access to their records. With this in mind I decided to extract from ...

Sheila wrote The patch of land that came with the cottage was useful for growing potatoes and cabbage etc, but not big enough to rear livestock. McCullagh says that Eddie’s uncle, Pat Coll, kept some cows, but as he had only half an acre of land, the cows were allowed to graze on the ‘long acre’, th...

Hi Sheila
In your researches on this subject have you seen the info that's available at EPPI?
eg,
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/ ... age/493270

Hi Jimbo Regarding Bridget O'Shea as informant, that is not necessarily a mistake. Maghera is adjacent to Ballyduffmore, so I assumed that in spite of being nine months pregnant herself, Bridget O'Shea may have been acting midwife for the Catherine Lyons birth. A couple of points to note, firstly th...

I'm a bit puzzled with this civil marriage record for Catherine(Katherine) Lyons, which shows the bride's father as Patt Barrett. KateMarriage.png The Barrett and Lyons families lived nextdoor to each other in Ballyduffmore, Inagh Parish. In both cases the Head of Household was a widow in the 1901 C...

This shipping record shows that Patrick Keane(34), policeman, arrived in Sydney on 18 Dec 1865 on board the Star of Brunswick which had departed Liverpool on 6 Sep 1865. http://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.aspx?Page=NRS5316/4_4789/Star%20of%20Brunswick_18%20Dec%201865/4_478900063.jpg&No=15 ...

Just came across this will published in full in the Freeman's Journal Sydney, Thursday 11 March 1920. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115587826?searchTerm=kilnamona%20clare&searchLimits=l-state=New+South+Wales I rather expected to find an obituary to match such an extraordinary spreading ...