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DIED. On Friday, at Ayle, county Clare, the seat of her son, at an advanced age, Mrs. M'Namara, relect of the late James M'Namara, Esq. Dublin Morning Register , Friday, 2 December 1825 DEATHS. Yesterday, at his residence at Ayle, county Clare, James M'Namara, Esq ., aged 53 years. He died full of ...

Hi Sheila, Yes, I agree that the Rev. Charles Fahy has a very good chance of being from Doora-Kilraghtis parish or at least had extended family living there. Also, Sharon provided an important clue with regards to his uncle, with the discovery of the Right Rev. Bishop McMahon having a land holding a...

Sharon and Sheila, thanks for the interesting feedback. I should have pointed out that not all the 1831 agrarian violence in my last posting was from East Clare. Major Ross Lewin was from Kildysart. As noted in several of the articles at the Clare Library website, after the Special Commission ended,...

STATE OF THE COUNTY. The Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday last [30 March 1831], presents a frightful list of outrages committed during the last week in the counties of Limerick and Clare. The police and the army have been beaten and stoned by the mob. The land has been turned up in many places, and ...

DEATH OF THE VERY REV. CHARLES FAHY. We record with deep feelings of regret the lamented death of the Very. Rev. Charles Fahy, P.P., of Newmarket-on-Fergus, the Vicar General of the diocese of Killaloe. Mr. Fahy entered on the duties of his mission at the early age of 23, having long before then co...

Kilnoe-Tomgraney (Bodyke) Parish Priest Timeline (updated draft): Today's google search of "John Gleeson" and "Bodyke" led to the School's Collection at duchas.ie. A submission from Bodyke school included a useful lists of teachers, Bodyke parish priests from 1821- 1938, as well as curates . The su...

Hi Sharon, thank you very much for the 1881 obituary in Australia for the wife of John Whelan as it states his occupation as "her Majesty's Customs, Melbourne". This solves the mystery of which of the two sons living in Victoria sent their father, James Whelan, then living in Ballynahinch, the book ...

Hi Christie, I hope you enjoyed your trip to Clare last summer and it was great success in researching your Irish roots. Sheila and I have been researching further Captain Charles George O'Callaghan of Ballinahinch, in relation to James Halpin, Jr., and his connection to a mysterious Michael McNamar...

Hi Sheila, Good job discovering the 1839 baptism of Denis McNamara, with parents Michael McNamara and Catherine McNamara in O'Callaghan Mills baptism register. You also mention the 1857 baptism of Kate in Kilnoe Parish, but weren't her parents Michael McNamara and Bridget McNamara? When Michael McNa...

Charles George O'Callaghan, Esq. of Ballinahinch, on coming of age and getting into possession of his estates, has, amongst other acts of liberality, directed his agent, Pierse [Pierce] Carrick, Esq. to distribute to the poorer classes of his cottier tenantry a large quantity of blankets and clothi...

Hi Sheila, Thanks for sharing your further research into the descendants of James Moloney of Cragboy townland, near Dangan. With regards to the Peter McCormack living in Derrymore in the 1901 and 1911 census, I agree that he would have been old enough perhaps to have fought in the Crimean War, but w...

ASSASSINATION OF PIERCE CARRICK, ESQ. The remains of the late Pierce Carrick, Esq., who fell by the shot of assassins, were conveyed from Tuoreen, on Wednesday night, to Ennis, where they were interred yesterday morning in the parish church, followed by a large and respectable concourse of persons....

MURDER OF ARTHUR GLOSTER, ESQ. We regret to have to record the death of Arthur Gloster, Esq., of Moylish, yesterday (Monday) evening, by the hand of the assassin, instigated, it is supposed, to the appalling and direful act by the "wild justice of revenge." Mr. Gloster, a few years ago, purchased, ...

The family of John and Catherine McNamara of Roslara has been discussed at length on page 30 of the search for the missing Civil War soldier Thomas McNamara of Glandree. The whereabouts of their son Timothy or Thadeus, born on 1 March 1882, are still unknown. There was some speculation that he was t...

Hi Sheila, Thanks for providing a link to the headstone transcriptions of The Hill graveyard in Ogonnelloe. I've now split out "Mary Anne", so John Sheedy has two daughters and not just the one. The civil birth record for "Anne Sheedy" in 1874 was written as "Anne Sheedey", and properly transcribed ...