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Many thanks to JPC for the hi-res copy. I have handed out copies to older people in the parish and so far just 1 man admits to being in the photo. I have received emails from what I will term the Kilkishen diaspora looking for info on the Church of Ireland refurbishment project. We very much want to...

I would like very much to get a high res copy. I am presently involved in fundraising to convert the derelict 200 year old Church of Ireland church in Kilkishen (official title is Clonlea Parish church) to a community/heritage centre. The fund-raising effort has recently started and will continue fo...

I have heard those lines recited to me in Co. Kerry. I was told they referred to Knocknagoshel in that county. I have a book of ballads. There is 1 verse critical of Kilkishen and it goes; "Kilkishen is a famous town But lately it is much come down They have a sidewalk on the street Would tear the s...

Hello Dean
Lawrence's email is lawrenceclarke65@gmail.com.

Lawrence Clarke, an Australian, who is researching the Bethell side of his ancestry, recently made a connection with German ancestors. He writes ".... in the 1911 Irish census in the same area was a Frank Bethell who ran the Bethell hotel on the Esplanade in Bray. He was listed as the proprietor age...

The October 2010 issue of Books Ireland has an advert on page 217 announcing the publication of a book with the above title. The publisher's blurb says "Colman, son of Duach established his Episcopal seat at Kilmacduagh around 610 A.D. The Dioceses of Killaloe and Clonfert were established at the Sy...

I tried to post on Thurs & Friday and kept getting a message saying you cannot post a message so soon after your last message - or words to that effect.

Following is from Marianne Maurer, who owns and runs the excellent Rowan Tree hostel in Ennis. " The Maurer’s moved from Freiburg in Germany which is close to the Swiss border & the black forest in 1896 – it was my great grandfather Joesph Maurer who was the “travelling” clockmaker. He first came to...

I have spoken to one of the Maurers of Ennis and gave her a copy of Paddy Casey's story which started off this thread. She will talk to her father about the family origins and will either come back to me or will post here.

Results of the map sale.

Lot 30 - Westby Estate maps of 1736 - no price given so perhaps sold privately before the sale.
Lot 31- Westby Estate maps of 1851 - €4000, well below the estimate
Lot 42 - Pelham's map of 1787 - €2400, well below the estimate

Several years ago, I did a lot of research on the Church of Ireland church in Sixmilebridge, or Kilfinaghty parish church to give it its correct title. The only reference to Stenson that I could find was the headstone that Paddy Waldron has already referred to. It is lying on the ground on the left ...

Some more sources for the Wilson - Lynch family: 1) http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/resources/archives/guidetoholdings_u.html Wilson-Lynch Papers Papers relating to the estate management of the lands of the Wilson-Lynch family at Belvoir, Sixmilebridge, and Kinvara in County Clare, and Renmore and o...

James Adams auctioneers in Dublin (http://www.adams.ie) are having a map sale on Tuesday 14th Sept. There are a few items of Clare interest, including the Westby estate and Pelhams map of 1787. See http://www.adams.ie/BidCat/SearchResults.asp?category=&keywords=clare&status=C&Submit+now.x=27&Submit+...

Hello Padraig re: the Glenwood ambush. A grandson of Sgt. Molloy who was killed in this ambush, contacted me recently looking for info about the ambush. I passed on the link to your website. He told me that his grandfather's pocket watch was posted to the family home from Ballykinlar internment camp...

Thanks for posting that Paddy. Re the two properties near Sixmilebridge The 521 ac. property 1 mile North of Sixmilebridge is the demesne land of the Butlers of Castlecrine. When the last of the Butlers died in c. 1951, the estate was eventually sold to the Somerville Co., who were saw millers. They...