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Hi Jimbo I wondered if James McInerney had returned to Ireland in 1912 because one of his parents was dying, but not so. The family burial place is in Doora old graveyard and the headstone inscription shows that Cornelius did not die until 1917, and Mary died in 1927: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eola...

Hi Jimbo Warning: this is a complete digression from the main topic – caused by your mention of the Maleaghs in Winneshiek, Iowa, in 1870: At Christmastime I bought the The Little House in the Big Woods , by Laura Ingalls Wilder, to give to a child as a present and ended up reading it myself. It’s a...

Hi Jimbo I enjoyed reading about Dubuque, the numbers of Irish, and the various visiting speakers. Yes, Mary Jane O’Donavan Rossa was an amazing woman. Just imagine, in the midst of everything else, she had 13 children. And how beautiful she looks in that photo taken in 1916 when she was aged 71. I ...

Here are the marriages: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls ... 1/mode/1up

Sheila

Thanks to cityfitz for his generous contribution to these transcriptions of Doonass and Truagh Baptisms 1851 – 1880: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634681#page/1/mode/1up, and Marriages 1851 – 1883: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634681#page/1/mode/1up. The Doonass and Truagh b...

The Counihans in Kilrush appear several times in the Senan Scanlan's Kilrush Notes 1760 - 1960: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/kilrush_notes_1760_1960/marriages3.htm And there's a piece on Querrin House on the Landed Estates site: http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp...

Hi Murf

I would like to submit my transcription of Doonass and Truagh baptisms. One by cityfitz was in the pipeline, but hasn't appeared.

Sheila

Hi Matthew I wonder if the person you are thinking is Frank Counihan, who was founder and editor of the Munster News. He was born near Killarney, Kerry, about 1807, according to an article in the Old Limerick Journal, No. 10, “A Brief History of the Munster News 1851-1935”, by Brendan Burke: http://...

Hi Kerry Bridget Burke, née Carkill, lived to the great age of 91. She and family moved from Lismoher to Ballykeel South, Kilfenora, sometime between 1901 and 1911, so her death in 1927 was registered in Ennistymon. Her son, Nicholas Burke, married Kathleen Nagle in Limerick in 1928. Many Clare peop...

Hi Kerry I meant to include this link to an article entitled "Miscellanea" from some Limerick journal (I can’t find the title of it): http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/NMAJ%20vol%2025%20(x)%20Miscellanea.pdf If you scroll down to page 74 you will find an article on the Bed Outshot, which includes a p...

Hi Kerry After all of that, I still have no answer to your question as to how the Carkill families were connected to each other. I think all the Carkills came from just two townlands, Leana and Commons North/Poulkine. The relationship between those two families may be complicated by a (possible) rel...

Well, I did not look very carefully at the second book of Rath-Kilnaboy baptisms (1837-1862), or I would have seen that Thomas Carkill, who is in Commons North in 1901, was born to John Carkil and Margaret Carthy on 12 Feb 1859. Other baptisms recorded for that couple are Michael on 24 Nov 1860, and...

Hi Kerry You have done a lot of work, and I hope you will continue find more bits of information to add to it. Note on Poulkine / Poulkyne: It may be of interest to someone, sometime, to know that Poulkine, where one family of Carkills lived, is an old name for the townland of Commons North, Kilnabo...

Hi Kerry I hope you will get a reply from someone who has done work on the Carkills. I’m afraid I’m not that person. I only touched briefly on the Carkills when I was replying to matthewmacnamara on the topic of Patrick McMahon of Leana Killinaboy: http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t...

And here are the Drumcliff Marriages sorted according to bride's residence

Sheila