Did the O’Gorman Mahon walk the Flaggy Shore?
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:54 pm
The mention of Mount Vernon house in this piece in Saturday’s Irish Times, describing a walk by the Flaggy Shore: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty ... -1.4168586 , reminded me that I came upon an entry in the New Quay baptisms that shows that the O’Gorman Mahon might have visited there in 1850:
08 Nov. 1850: Philip of William J. Skerrett and Ann McMahon, Finevarra; sponsors: The O’Gorman MacMahon, Mrs. Dalton.
The priest has spelled the name “MacMahon”, but I still think it must be the O’Gorman Mahon.
New Quay baptisms: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls ... 1/mode/1up
Mount Vernon was once owned by the Skerrett family: http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/Lande ... sp?id=1792
It was named after Mount Vernon, Virginia, the home of George Washington, and the story goes that cypress trees still standing in the garden were a present from George Washington: https://www.ireland.com/what-is-availab ... l/1-89785/
Sheila
08 Nov. 1850: Philip of William J. Skerrett and Ann McMahon, Finevarra; sponsors: The O’Gorman MacMahon, Mrs. Dalton.
The priest has spelled the name “MacMahon”, but I still think it must be the O’Gorman Mahon.
New Quay baptisms: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls ... 1/mode/1up
Mount Vernon was once owned by the Skerrett family: http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/Lande ... sp?id=1792
It was named after Mount Vernon, Virginia, the home of George Washington, and the story goes that cypress trees still standing in the garden were a present from George Washington: https://www.ireland.com/what-is-availab ... l/1-89785/
Sheila