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- Sun Jul 09, 2023 10:07 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey, Galway Library's version
- Replies: 5
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Re: O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey, Galway Library's version
To ensure the broadest possible dissemination of the current status for accessibility to the Ordnance Survey-era Name Books, associated Letters, and any related treatments (such as a version produced under the direction of Fr. O'Flanagan) on a very "granular" level of place names known in the era be...
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:18 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Ennis charity raffle 1871, winners published
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12423
Re: Ennis charity raffle 1871, winners published
Excellent to learn more of the very active Mons. Nono -- I would never have guessed that he was such a fixture of the Ennis scene. With 10 children I wonder how well that mutton stretched ? I guess the half-barrel of ale was well deserved and much needed. As a personal aside on this, the English-Iri...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 10:40 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,
- Replies: 847
- Views: 3734167
Re: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,
Sheila, I now see you have also added onto this thread, for your query on how to access more of John O'Donovan's commentary resulting from his official work in the 1830s while working on the Ordnance Survey around the island. You have seen what he produced for Galway as well as Sixmilebridge CLA. Th...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:08 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Ennis charity raffle 1871, winners published
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12423
Ennis charity raffle 1871, winners published
Before I lose sight of my screen-shotted news item, here is a slice of Clare life in a decade largely lost to time: Freeman’s Journal 26 Sep 1871 p.1 The Christian Brothers’ Raffle, Ennis The following is a List of the Winning Numbers: - Piano, won by Mr. Mitchel, Portumna. Gold Watch, won by D. M’N...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 1:04 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey, Galway Library's version
- Replies: 5
- Views: 18288
Re: O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey, Galway Library's version
Sheila, not to worry. The digital version of the name book commentary done by O'Donovan is available on askaboutireland.ie, but so that folks are aware that all 32 counties were and are not available, here is the description accessed today on the Royal Academy website: The Royal Irish Academy holds ...
- Mon Jun 19, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Barry O'Brien's Book in the Bronson
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12451
Re: Barry O'Brien's Book in the Bronson
Kurt, I am not overly surprised that you couldn't access the involved newspaper database site by simply landing on the site from the Internet in general. When these free-access days pop up around holidays, I use the link provided in postings by other family historians made on sites like r/Genealogy ...
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 5:19 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Barry O'Brien's Book in the Bronson
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12451
Barry O'Brien's Book in the Bronson
The celebration of Father's Day in the U.S. has brought free access to Newspapers.com with its very handy search engine. Although I was looking for other items, this one caught my eye since I know the involved library, personally visited during many a lunchtime while working in Waterbury, Connecticu...
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 5:10 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Fr. Patrick Quaid
- Replies: 16
- Views: 30779
Re: Fr. Patrick Quaid
I am all ears on anything that provides context for Fr. Quaid's leaving behind his longtime Limerick home ground. Thanks very much for these observations; as you likely know, I don't have access to the Ignatious Murphy work. There was a lot going on in Clare then and specifically this parish's area ...
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 11:11 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: John McNamara, of Barberton, Ohio, returns to County Clare in 1892
- Replies: 55
- Views: 193393
Re: John McNamara, of Barberton, Ohio, returns to County Clare in 1892
I realize that more is coming on the Capt. MIchael Macnamera thread, for which the Macnamera side is outlined through the early 1900s. I can't contribute directly on the Finucane-O'Brien birth family of Mary who was the military man's wife, the one who seems to be too young to fit an 1804 wedding (w...
- Sun May 28, 2023 10:47 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: John McNamara, of Barberton, Ohio, returns to County Clare in 1892
- Replies: 55
- Views: 193393
Re: John McNamara, of Barberton, Ohio, returns to County Clare in 1892
Sheila and Jimbo, I also see a Catholic Rev. James Finucane McNamara as a bit of an anomaly for his time, and I heartily likewise send congrats on connecting the dots revealing his demise. I have spent some of the past days looking over what I can find definitively on his birth family. The good news...
- Fri May 26, 2023 1:46 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Donlon lecture on Minnesota immigration from Galway
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12610
Re: Donlon lecture on Minnesota immigration from Galway
Sheila, this is a much shorter reply than the long one that evaporated when I clicked to post it. My description of the Donlon lecture was lifted from the migration series' webpages, that it would cover Tuke's assisted migrations from 1875 into the early 1900s. The lecture's focus instead was on 188...
- Wed May 24, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: John McNamara, of Barberton, Ohio, returns to County Clare in 1892
- Replies: 55
- Views: 193393
Re: John McNamara, of Barberton, Ohio, returns to County Clare in 1892
,,,who was the Rev. James F. McNamara, parish priest of Kilnoe between 1828 and 1831 / 1832? He does not appear on the 1836 Catholic directory of Irish priests, so he doesn't appear to have transferred to another parish. Jimbo, FWIW going over my extensive McNamara notes, I also am unable to find a...
- Tue May 23, 2023 11:27 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Donlon lecture on Minnesota immigration from Galway
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12610
Donlon lecture on Minnesota immigration from Galway
May 24 online event, requiring registration on a safe site Not squarely a Co. Clare topic, but a great one for those of us who have dipped a toe into the vast lake of immigrants drawn to Minnesota in the 1800s. The Irish were some of the first there, suffering through Native American raids on settle...
- Wed May 17, 2023 11:50 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: John McNamara, of Barberton, Ohio, returns to County Clare in 1892
- Replies: 55
- Views: 193393
Re: John McNamara, of Barberton, Ohio, returns to County Clare in 1892
It was surprising to me that the Right Rev. Dr. Patrick McMahon felt threatened enough to move from his "country home" to Ennis during the Terry Alt violence of 1831. I failed to discover where the Bishop of Killaloe (diocese) was living at the time (I don't believe it was Killaloe Parish). A candi...
- Sun May 14, 2023 4:55 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: John McNamara, of Barberton, Ohio, returns to County Clare in 1892
- Replies: 55
- Views: 193393
Re: John McNamara, of Barberton, Ohio, returns to County Clare in 1892
Sheila, I enjoyed reading the modern essays on some very old places in East Clare. The aspect of where and when wooded areas have been cultivated is an interesting take on the subject of land management there. Since I already had to become familiar with the name Matthew Boland in East Clare (my DNA ...