Paul,
I don't have a lot more to add at this time. As you will see from the 1860 voters list which I transcribed at the National
Archives in Dublin, there is a connection between the Lenihans of Mount Allon (the ones who served as baptismal
sponsors to my Carberry's children) and those of Coolnaheela. The Clare Heritage report on Lenihan encouraged considering
the Lenihans of Coolnaheela as being related to the Lenihans of Newton/Killuran, who were the subject of that report.
The further question is how Clonlara fits into all this. As to Clonloum, I am assured by Ernene Smedley, whose ancestors
were from there, that it has been no more than a farming community without even a church at any time. That sounds like it was ripe for being a cradle and not a place to particularly keep its young people wanting to enter trades and professions.
You did not mention looking into the Smyths. I think that Paddy was right on in pointing out Tim Smythe the athlete raised
by his aunt Nora Lenihan. Further, a candidate for being your Nora Smith Lenihan is Hanora, aged 17, in the 1901
household of Timothy Smyth in Feakle. I also show below a few bits of Smythe lore gleaned from the Internet. It is a
family who rarely appears in East Clare records, which is actually great and avoids the problems of too many Smiths.
I can now try doing more on the Lenihans in another database to which I must leave and travel a bit. It's good knowing
that I can pass along what might not be central to my own research.
Sharon C.
1860 Register of Voters, Barony of Tulla Lower NA 1D-40-123
LENIHAN
Dan Lackyle [My Carberrys lived at Lakyle and had Daniel Lenihan in their church records.]
Mich. Coolnahela house and land at Mountallon
Mich. Dan. "
Mich. "
Dan. Mountallon
1901 Coonahella, Ballinahinch DED
Lenihan
Anne Head of Family Roman Catholic Read-Write 60 Farmer Widow Co. Clare
Bridget Daughter Read-Write 20 Farmer's Daughter Not Married Co. Clare
William Son Read-Write 16 Scholar Not Married Co. Clare
Michael Son Read-Write 29 Farmer's Son Not Married Co. Clare
25 Mar 1908 arrival in NYC of the Carmania
Lenihan, Michael D. Clonlara, Ireland 33 [b.c.1875, this is the closest match]
farmer
closest Irish kin: Margt Lenihan, Clonlara, Co Clare [is this also Anne ?]
going to cousin Mr. J. Dinan, 3013 Tasker St, Philly
1910 census PA PHILADELPHIA 12-WD No. Orianna St.
LENAHAN MICHAEL 34 IRE
wagondriver, brewery arrived 1905
boarding with James Rouan 35 Ire arived 1895 [Roughan is a long-time Clare surname]
The above placing Michael in Philadelphia would explain why the biographical notice for Michael is an acknowledgement
and not an obituary.
Smythe items --
"On December 12, 1974, Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin leaders met at Smith's Hotel, Feakle, with the leaders of the main Irish Protestant Christian denominations (Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian) to discuss ways of resolving the Northern Ireland crisis. The Gardaí (Irish police) broke up the meeting. Although any wanted IRA men had already departed, the churchmen did pass on the list of Republican demands to the British government. Methodist leader Eric Gallagher was in attendance and would bcome the subject of the book Peacemaker by author Dennis Cooke."
Wikipedia item
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feakle,_County_Clare
Smyth Country Lodge Hotel ... Feakle, County Clare, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0) 61 924000 Email:
smythvil@iol.ie
http://www.iol.ie/~smythvil/
Greetings to all...from Ireland. I was delighted by Br. Kieran's account of the foundation and early years of the Abbey. It meant a lot to me as Fr Clement Smyth was my great grand uncle, ie, my mothers granduncle. Incidentally, Mons. Martin MacNamara, who served as a priest in Des Moines and died in the late 1940s, was a nephew of Bishop Smyth. Fr. Martin was born in Flagmount, Feakle, Co. Clare and his mother was a sister of Bishop Smyth. When I was a small child, I recall my mother's great sorrow on reading in a letter from Des Moines of the death of her beloved uncle, Fr. Martin...
Patrick O/Dwyer Jan '05
podwyer@eircom.net
posted in the guestbook at
http://www.newmelleray.org
"Clement Smyth was b. 24 February, 1810, at Finlea, County Clare, Ireland; educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he entered the Cistercian Order and was ordained, 29 May, 1841. He was sent to the United States and founded New Melleray monastery, twelve miles from Dubuque, on land donated by Bishop Loras. He was consecrated, 3 May, 1857, by Archbishop Kenrick of St. Louis. Bishop Smyth was a man whose deep piety and boundless charity won the devotion of priests and people. He held a synod whose canons remained unaltered till 1902. Under him immigration continued, but owing to hard times and the Civil War, not much progress was made in church-building, but the spiritual edifice was strengthened. At his death, 22 September 1865, there were 90,000 Catholics in Iowa."
http://home.newadvent.org/cathen/05179b.htm