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Numerous County Clare directories at http://www.swilson.info/dirdb.php, some free, some subscription, some pay-per-view, most directly accessible on the Clare Library site at www.clarelibrary.ie Just click on that http://www.swilson.info/dirdb.php link and enter "Clare" into the Location slot and of...

Right. The chances of dying prematurely of hunger or any one of a number of diseases (e.g. cholera) were very high at that time. Two books among the many on the subject are - Sable Wings over the Land by Ciarán Ó Murchada (Clasp Press, 1998) and - A Starving People - Life and Death in West Clare 184...

That "Elon" would probably be Ellen. According to the traditional Irish rules for naming children the 2nd daughter was usually named after the father's mother so if that rule was applied at the baptism of this child it might suggest that "Elon" was a second daughter. Not cast-iron evidence, of cours...

Thanks for those book references and the other information, Sharon. Another book that has been warmly recommended to me is Medicine and Charity in Ireland, 1718-1851 by Dr. Laurence (Larry) Geary, Senior Lecturer in History at University College Cork(Dublin: UCD Press, 2004, not yet available in e-b...

This is a follow-on to a thread started by Bob Cusack at http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6733 In recent years I have been investigating the violent death of a relative in North Clare in 1915. There is no doubt that he died of a gunshot injury. His death, and the manner of his dea...

... Are you, or any other forum members, aware of the location of inquest records for the 1800's in Ireland and whether they are indexed? Bob Because your question is of such wide general interest, Bob, I've taken the liberty of posting my answer in a new thread - Clare inquest reports - where are ...

The history books are, of course, full of these dreadful stories but here's another one. A correspondent of the Limerick Chronicle, writing from Tulla, in the county Clare, states that an inquest had just been held on the bodies of one man and two women, named Boland, who had died of starvation. Fiv...

On Thursday week at Kells*, County Clare, Mr James Foster, formerly of the Inland Revenue, residing with his nephew, Mr Robert Foster, JP, Barrister-at-Law, Rinroe*, walked out after breakfast to a new schoolhouse which is being built in the neighbourhood. He was talking to the workmen, when he sudd...

RESULT OF A FACTION FIGHT. At the fair of Tubber, on Friday last, a faction fight occurred between the Reillys and a family named Keane, which resulted in the death of Edmund Reilly, a blacksmith, residing at a place called Caher, in the county Clare. Both families have been for some time past on ve...

Just searching for something in my bookshelf and reopened "Poverty Before the Famine, County Clare 1835" published by CLASP* Press in 1996 (those who do not have direct access to the book can also find a summary at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/poverty/poverty_before_famine_index....

A young farmer named Fogarty, not long married, has been killed by falling between the railway platform, at Tubber, in the County of Clare, and a moving train, on the occasion of a throng of people to bid farewell to emigrants (Liverpool Mercury - Saturday 09 April 1881).

The period of the Clare Journal on this site has been extended to 1871 - getting better all the time! Thanks for this timely heads-up, Murf. Particularly timely because I got a mail this morning from info@britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk saying "Get a month's full access to the British Newspaper Archi...

If you check out the info on Fahy Beg that mcreed posted you will see that a Margaret Hickey is listed in the Griffiths Valuations (ca. 1855) and Crottys are listed next door in the townland of O'Briensbridge.

Paddy

....I have not been able to find his baptism in the NHI records. The years I am looking for are missing. Does this mean that they don"t exist or that they may not have been copied?..... Just until one of the Kilrush/Kilkee experts pops up to answer your question more constructively, Denise: many ch...

The contact details for the Clare County Archive are at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/archiv ... act_us.htm so you could give her a call at Tel: 00 353 65 684 6414 or 00 353 65 684 6269.

Paddy