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by pwaldron
Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:31 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: O'Gorman
Replies: 1
Views: 13577

Re: O'Gorman

I see you have found some well-known descendants of James O'Gorman from Bunratty Castle:

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/round ... -connecti/
by pwaldron
Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:38 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Attn. Clare Admin: search is broken
Replies: 2
Views: 10332

Attn. Clare Admin: search is broken

For the last few weeks, all searches on this forum have returned:

"Information
The specified search backend doesn’t exist."

Can the search backend be resurrected?
by pwaldron
Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:05 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: McMahon house & castle in Moyarta parish
Replies: 10
Views: 21220

Re: McMahon house & castle in Moyarta parish

I don't think that Breen & UaCroinín have gotten around to publishing on Carrigaholt Castle in the Other Clare yet - there is nothing to indicate that they have done so in the table of contents at https://tbreen.home.xs4all.nl/Journals/Clare.html Hugh Weir does cover Carrigaholt Castle and Cottage o...
by pwaldron
Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:12 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: McMahon house & castle in Moyarta parish
Replies: 10
Views: 21220

Re: McMahon house & castle in Moyarta parish

The reference is surely to Carrigaholt Castle, which is in Rinemackaderrig townland.

What is your source?
by pwaldron
Mon Feb 04, 2019 4:56 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Tubridy Family Kilrush
Replies: 28
Views: 43255

Re: Tubridy Family Kilrush

Jean Am I correct in thinking that your aunt Catherine Tubridy married John F (Seán, Jack) McGrath with whom she ran a shop in Moore Street before they emigrated to Canada in 1955? I spent a very interesting day in the National Folklore Collection in University College Dublin last Friday, reading th...
by pwaldron
Sat Jan 19, 2019 7:01 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Hitting brick wall @ Patrick Crowe & parents - suggestions?
Replies: 8
Views: 10222

Re: Hitting brick wall @ Patrick Crowe & parents - suggestio

I'm not sure which Crowe this is: https://www.duchas.ie/ga/cbes/5162147/5158776/5198240 Westby had a sub agent in Querrin named Crowe who was very hard. At last Westby gathered all the tenants together and compared their rent receipts with the amounts actually received by him through Crowe. Finding ...
by pwaldron
Sat Jan 19, 2019 6:34 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Hitting brick wall @ Patrick Crowe & parents - suggestions?
Replies: 8
Views: 10222

Re: Hitting brick wall @ Patrick Crowe & parents - suggestio

Clarefield is two townlands east of Querrin, so this may be your Luke Crowe:

http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/se ... earchfocus
by pwaldron
Sat Jan 19, 2019 6:29 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Hitting brick wall @ Patrick Crowe & parents - suggestions?
Replies: 8
Views: 10222

Re: Hitting brick wall @ Patrick Crowe & parents - suggestio

James Crowe was a widower when he died in 1889, so his second wife must be the only Ann* Crowe whose death was registered in Kilrush between their marriage and his death. !DEATH: Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958 Name: Anne Crowe Estimated birth year: abt 1807 Date of Registration:...
by pwaldron
Sat Jan 19, 2019 6:28 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Hitting brick wall @ Patrick Crowe & parents - suggestions?
Replies: 8
Views: 10222

Re: Hitting brick wall @ Patrick Crowe & parents - suggestio

murf is correct: Ned/Edward is with his maternal grandmother in both censuses: !CENSUS: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Clare/Rahona/Rehy_East/1077724/ (1901 - house 9 in Rehy East (Rahona, Clare)) Crowe Edward 5 Male Grand Son Roman Catholic Co Clare Scholar Read Irish and English ...
by pwaldron
Sat Jan 19, 2019 6:23 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Hitting brick wall @ Patrick Crowe & parents - suggestions?
Replies: 8
Views: 10222

Re: Hitting brick wall @ Patrick Crowe & parents - suggestio

Hi bd77690 I didn't recognise your new username on this forum until I looked back at your Facebook username. As I posted on your Facebook thread, the official verdict is that "Private Martin Crowe died of accidental wounds whilst on leave in Ireland on 29 March 1918". murf has beaten me to it on a f...
by pwaldron
Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:56 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: John Nash 1815-1880 and Jane Quilty- Kilrush
Replies: 9
Views: 11442

Re: John Nash 1815-1880 and Jane Quilty- Kilrush

There is now a live discussion of this family at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/countyc ... 336378976/
by pwaldron
Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:09 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: John Nash 1815-1880 and Jane Quilty- Kilrush
Replies: 9
Views: 11442

Re: John Nash 1815-1880 and Jane Quilty- Kilrush

The children of John and Jane Nash are in the Kilrush Church of Ireland registers (William 1842, Sarah 1844, Jane 1847, Catherine 1852, Harriet, Ellen and Susan all in 1858 and George in 1863). Until recently, they were held at St. Columba's Church in Ennis, but they may now have gone to the Represe...
by pwaldron
Sun Dec 30, 2018 2:13 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Carmody Family of Fodry Co Clare
Replies: 14
Views: 37191

Re: Carmody Family of Fodry Co Clare

I learned this evening from a man who was raised by his mother's first cousin and her husband Denis Quinlan (1904-1973) that Denis's aunt Johanna Quinlan married James McCarthy. James and Johanna were both teachers and taught in Kilronan on Inis Mór in the Aran Islands. I have not yet found them in ...
by pwaldron
Sun Dec 16, 2018 2:58 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Boree Log at Lisseycasey
Replies: 13
Views: 37350

Re: The Boree Log at Lisseycasey

The Boree Log at Lissycasey has been transformed from a pub to a barber's shop. Local gossip comes up with the strangest of explanations for such transformations and I recently heard a rumour (from an unreliable source) that the publican's lawyer was late getting the application to renew the pub lic...