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On Friday, Robert George Greene, Esq, held an inquest upon the body of a man named Darby Minogue, in the parish of Feacle , who came by his death under the following circumstances.—A few days since a dispute arose between two families about the possession of some land, and either party having colle...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for providing the rather grim stats on tuberculosis deaths in Ireland. Sergeant Major Thomas J. Madigan, of course, was at Fitzsimons General Hospital in Denver suffering from TB. The news articles I chose in my first posting announcing that 4 orphan boys were the recipients of ...

Hi Sheila, Recently I had a search of the ebay auction website for any interesting Irish stamp covers, and was very surprised to find a letter addressed to a Miss B. Madigan of the Bronx, sent from F. Madigan of Vandeleur Street, Kilrush in 1939. The letter had been opened and resealed by the censor...

Hi Sheila, Thank you very much for obtaining and sharing the civil death record for the John McNamara, who died in 1870 at the age of 92 years old. Knocknafeena townland sounds very familiar. Are you sure that we haven't come across this John McNamara during the search for the missing Civil War sold...

Hi Sheila, Happy New Year and I hope you had a nice Christmas holiday. Thank you very much for obtaining the civil death record of Thomas McNamara who end up being from Tullamore, County Ofally. I am very curious who the John McNamara who died in 1870 at the age of 92 will be. Thanks for applying fo...

Hi Sheila, Thanks for your feedback on the 1847 Freeholder listing. The purpose of "senior" and "junior" was to distinguish between two people with the same name, not for family relationships. I reckon they could be father and son, or they could be two men with the same name but different ages. Eith...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for sharing the fascinating information that the Rev. Patrick Quinlivan was the uncle of two sisters who married Eugene O'Curry and John O'Donovan. Back in July, when I posted on page 46 the 1962 Irish stamp commemorating them both, I was not aware that O'Curry and O'Donovan had...

Yes, I did use the link you provided for the topic “Quinlivan of Ballyroughan” and I read it all, but did not think there was any contradiction between the Ballyroughan Quinlivans having a priest (or two) and the Garruragh Quinlivans having their own priest. But you have convinced me that Rev. Mr. ...

Hi Sharon, Thank you for providing the 1851 Catholic priest registry and 1846 Slater's directory. Here are a few more clippings of Rev. Michael Quinlivan's various exploits and promotions through the 1850's. At the Petty Sessions of Ennis, the Rev. Mr. Quinlivan, RCC, and two others, appeared to ans...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for obtaining the 1864 civil death record for Daniel McNamara who ended up being from Newgrove, father of a Patrick McNamara. And I wouldn't worry about any mistranscriptions of the Tulla records. I had previously caught that "John Quinlivan" was "James Quinlivan", it was fairly...

Hi Sheila, Thanks very much for highlighting that the Rev. Mr. Quinlivan and his two nephews were brought to a board meeting of Tulla Union in May 1851. Have you any idea who this Rev. Quinlivan might be? Paddy Waldron in a posting back in 2012 was researching a Quinlivan from Rathlooby, with an ear...

Hi Paddy, It has been over ten years since you've first posted about the family "Quinlivan of Ballyroughan" and you may have already sorted out all your questions or perhaps lost interest. The past few weeks the ongoing search for the missing Thomas McNamara of Glandree has led to Garruragh townland...

I was interested to see, in the 1888-1913 map, that the Workhouse burial ground is in the townland of Drummaghmartin (adjacent to Garruragh). Griffith's Valuation shows only one tenant in Drummaghmartin: Anne Molony leasing from Dorothea Tottenham. Burial grounds are usually listed as exempt from r...

Hi Sharon, Thanks for sharing your brief notes on the Tulla workhouse. Was surprised that the new location for the custom-built workhouse was not settled until as late as April 1851. Hi Sheila, Thanks for the various news clippings, especially the 1856 mention of a "new fever hospital" at the Tulla ...

Hi Sheila, On google street view when you look over the stone wall surrounding the auxiliary workhouse (Plot 13 on GV), there is indeed "a two-story ruin partly viewable behind overgrown shrubbery". Given the context of my posting, the implication to a reader, as well as my own assumption, would be ...