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Polycarp that's fantastic news.thank you so much!

First thing monday am D.V. I'm off to the national library in kildare st!

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Aha!

I had never noticed that on OS maps.Thanks Paddy!

Btw I do hope it wasn't the job by the Costello's that did for the house! lol

Not the best at the old DIY myself

. wow excellent finds there thanks lucille and paddy! the house must have been to the fore after 1888 when leonard moved from dublin to ennis to get married and set up business.leonard died in 1927 and had been ill for some years so presumably not much work was done after, say 1920 unfortunately the...

. Bit of a long-shot this,but by any chance are there any relations or decendants of the Lally family of The Causeway [now francis st] Ennis on the forum or knocking around? They also owned a hotel I think inO'Connell st Catherine Lally [1860-1909] daughter of Martin Lally and Margaret McTigue marri...

hi can anyone shed any light on Riverston [?] House Corofin? I've not been able to find light-nor-sight of it on google my query is in relation to a quote my Grandfather Leonard Costello of 29 Church [Abbey] St Ennis sent in.Leonards business was plumbing/sanitary/gasworks. Below is a snapshot from ...

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there is also sean spellisy's excellently titled book "The Merchants of Ennis"



i got great insight into my family from this

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not sure is this is any help,but if you know the actual piece you want to show them,how about doing a printscreen and emailing them the photo?

usually the button on the keyboard is abbreviated to PRTSC

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Lucille you wont believe this,but my copy of ennis architectural heritage arrived in the post today,bought off ebay!

by william garner,mine is an ex-library issue but nice and clean.

what a conincidence.not had a chance to open it yet

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ahhhh of course!!!!


thanks for that mcreed

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thanks everyone.still no joy on this one though unfortunately.

does anyone know was steele's terrace called something else originally?

i can't seem to find it on 1901 or 1911 census.

. janet have you tried the irish times online archive? its ten euro for 24 hrs.seems to be a good few mentions judging by the indexes. heres a link with the dates you mentioned http://www.irishtimes.com/search/archive.html?rm=listresults&filter=dateasc&keywords=burke&daterange=custom&day1=16&mon1=8&...

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my pleasure!

i've had so much help and advice on here,that it's nice to pay back in some small way

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hi flapjack.here you go.




if you have any problem reading this from the pic let me know and i will transcribe it out here.

hi

i am going into national library dublin today or tomorrow am at latest and would be happy to look that up for you.

unless someone else does it first

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thanks Admin.I will try that

in the meantime if anyone reading this has a copy to sell, or knows of one,i'd be delighted to hear that.



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