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Thanks Paddy – for your advice about the next steps, which I definitely intend to follow, and for your advice on what was usual at the time of Griffith's. When I was young I was given the barest outline on this O’Malley family from Kilmaley, but, with the help of the Clare Library website and the ad...

Cornelius Mealy is listed in the Irish Education Enquiry, 1824, as having a school in “a good thatched house” in the townland of Dough, in the parish of Kilfearagh, and later in Slater’s Directory, 1846, as having a school in Chapel St., Kilkee. Ignatius Murphy, in his book “Before the Famine Struck...

Thanks Sadhbh – I moved too quickly from wishful thinking to posting question - should have consulted Teresa Schoosmith’s work first.

Sheila

Thanks, Paddy, for flagging the duchasnasionna website – and thanks to the group behind the website. It is great to have access to the accounts of travels in Clare and also to some articles from old issues of The Other Clare. I have none of the first ten issues, but this website allowed me to read t...

In yesterday’s Irish Times newspaper, John Grenham writes enviously of the new Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. After describing the new building, he goes on to say, “Proni’s online offering (proni.gov.uk) also continues to grow. The eCatalogue is providing deeper and deeper insight into th...

Well, here’s another go at “Camel Park”: The OS 6 inch map shows “Windmill Hill” and a site marked “windmill in ruins” – as being in Castlequarter, but I think that Knockavullen must have been the name of an area that covered the southern part of what (in the drawing of townland boundaries for that ...

Michael, I looked again at plot 26, and now I see that the house in the later 25" map is in the same position as it always was. I made my mistake when I switched to the next map up and the cursor was a little to the north of where the house was shown. This time I switched to the 6" above that one (i...

I have no theory at all on what "Moyrhee" means. As for Camel Park, I have never heard of this place. Was this a rendering into English of “Knockmullen” (the old name for the Shanballysallagh townland, according to Frank Brew, p 20)? This sounds very farfetched until you read the explanation given b...

First I must admit a mistake: it was James Fitzgerald, and not his son, the Rev. Henry, who added in the Vesey bit. Secondly, about Moyrhee: My theory is that this was the old name for a shapeless area, dating from a time when areas did not have to have a shape. It does not appear on maps – not in D...

Hi Michael I looked at plot 26 on the Griffith’s map on askaboutireland.ie and noted the general shape of the plot and some features and where it was on the road into Scarriff. Then I went to the osi.ie site (ordnance survey of Ireland) – I tend to stay on the Clare Library website and select “Maps”...

I am back to the Vesey Fitzgeralds, and can report that I have now read a most interesting article on the Vesey Fitzgerald family, by Joe Power, in The Other Clare, Vol. 14. (another source acknowledged in the landed estates website). Most of his article is easy reading because it dwells on the care...

Thanks for clearing that up! And for passing on so much information.

Sheila

As Rent Books are mentioned by Paddy Casey in his initial posting, I think I am not straying too far from the point in asking if the estate records mentioned by Terence Dooley in “The Land for the People” are the same kind of estate records that people refer to on this forum? In his introduction he ...

Paddy, Yes, the Fitzgeralds crop up as landlords very often, but, as you say, there seems to be different families, or branches, of Fitzgeralds. Thomas Coffey, in his book, "The Parish of Inchicronan (Crusheen)", devotes a chapter (p. 104 and 105) to The Fitzgeralds of Lahardan, Inchicronan, and, as...

Richard, I'm back to say it has taken this while for me to come fully around to your view on the postcard, so ingrained was my habit of thinking that Irish people travelled for employment purposes only. Yes, it must have come from Kathleen McNamara - though, for a visitor, she makes herself right at...