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The following death notice appeared in the local papers in March 1853, referring to the Verlins of Cloondanagh, Tulla. 14 March 1853 On Wednesday last at Clondanagh [Cloondanagh], near Tulla, Mr Richard Verlin, aged 28 years, brother of Patrick R. Verlin, Grocer, of Broad-street, Limerick, leaving a...

Hi Roy, I presume you have seen the entry on Barry Duncan Gibbons in Brendan O'Donoghue's book on the Irish county surveyors (pp. 183-184). The following newspaper entry from 1853 might be relevant, perhaps. The Limerick Chronicle Saturday 26 March 1853 By the death of Mrs Campbell, of Aghnish, Dunc...

It is a cause of great regret that admittance and discharge registers for the Clare workhouses have not come down to us. A report of a meeting of the Kilrush Board of Guardians ("Clare Freeman", Saturday 3 August 1861) gives us the names of five female inmates. All five women were enabled to leave t...

Have a look in the 1901 census in the Liscannor area, beside Ennistymon. A family is entered under the name Lillas in the 1901 census in Knocknaraha , Killaspuglonane. See the Clare library census of Clare under 62/3 (D.E.D. Liscannor, townland of Knocknaraha). In the 1911 census (see the National A...

The following interesting newspaper notice appeared in the "Limerick Chronicle" on Wednesday 9 May 1860. THE TICKET OF LEAVE SYSTEM IN CLARE. We learn that a large number of convicts, who were transported from the county of Clare during the years of disturbance, have recently returned to that county...

Hi Shannon There is an estate rental in the county library in Ennis covering the years 1819 - 1822, as part of the O'Loghlen Papers. This rental includes Shranagalloon. Thomas Fitzgibbon is entered for the period 4 April 1820 up to 4th February 1822. It seems during this period he paid a grand total...

Thank you Sharon for this most interesting list.

If anyone can inform me what first name is designated by the male nickname or pet-name Lott, I would be most grateful

Polycarp

The Fiants are also available in the county library in Ennis, in the Local Studies Centre. Two other good sources for the 17th century: The Irish patent rolls of James 1st, which covers the years circa 1603 - 1625 and published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission in 1966. This very large volume fami...

Hi Murf, The following account is given in the "Clare Journal" of 18th September 1913. It may not relate to the Morton family you ask after but it touches on issues you raise. Polycarp The Acting Master of the Ennis Workhouse [at an Ennis Board of Guardians meeting] reported that there was a man nam...

The following notice appeared in the "Ennis Chronicle" in the issue of 12th February 1795. "We the Apothecaries Apprentices of the Town of Ennis, having taken into consideration the hardships we lie under, by attendance at all hours, paying a large Fee, and obliged at much Expense to stand an Examin...

With reference to M. McNamara's post and Miss Butler of Kilfinaghty, I came across this paragraph in the Church of Ireland Gazette (30 August 1907) concerning the State Inebriate Reformatory in Ennis, a form of custodial detention for 'habitual drunkards'; there were many female drunkards detained i...

That's wonderful news, Jeff, it will be great to have your index.

Will your index also include the parish of Obriensbridge?

Thanks,

Polycarp

Hi Jim Sean Kierse, the expert on Killaloe, in his book Land And People Of Killaloe Parish, page 85, traces a Mrs Barton in Knockaderreen townland, parish of O'Briensbridge, as per the 1824 Tithes records. Mrs Barton had eleven acres, according to Mr Kierse, in the 1824 tithes. In an 1842 rental of ...

Hi Susan,

Perhaps your ancestor as the eldest son inherited his father's estate under the law of primogeniture, with his affairs administered on his behalf by the chancery division of the High Court. Your ancestor may have been a ward of court, perhaps.

Polycarp

Hi Darren There is reference to Ceatharnach McMahon in the recently-published "The Story Of Newmarket-on-Fergus" by Reuben Butler and Maire Ni Ghruagain. See page 259 of this book. Drawing on the O'Donoghue Manuscripts and also the Stonehall National School submission to the Irish Folklore Commissio...