Clare Past Forum

Many thanks Sheila. I am surprised that Paddy has not got an entry in
the DIB. He was IRB and involved in an armed incident in Meelick
BEFORE Easter 1916. I think that he was clerk of the Dail for a while. He may have
visited Germany in the 1930s.

I am interested in information about Paddy Brennan of Meelick. He was the eldest of three
brothers who were active in the War of Independence. He was election agent to de Valera
at his first election in Clare. Later he ran a guest house in Lahinch.

Limerick city has/had a GAA club called Claughan. I don't the origin of the name in that context, territorial or otherwise.

In 1844 the Parish Priest of Meelick/Parteen, Father Maurice Fitzbibbon, gave this evidence to a government commission of enquiry
into agrarian conditions, sitting in Limerick

Are there farms held in common or in joint tenancy.
There are some on the outside you see here to the north of the city ...

There was a pub in Killadysart with the name Miniter over the door. I don't know if is still there.

In May 1847 J B Knox proprietor of the Clare Journal wrote following about the soup kitchens system that substituted for public works
We are painfully concerned for the condition of this country at the present moment. We have on every side, in every corner of the land, an excited people, for there ...

The initial government measure of Famine relief in 1846 was public work schemes. In January 1847 Dublin Castle decided to discontinue relief by public works, and to set up food distribution centres [often referred to as soup kitchens]. This was unpopular to say the least. The discontinuing of
relief ...

many thanks

Matthew Mac Namara

In the 1940s and 1950s my mother a Clare woman from Meelick used to refer
to an inheritance from the United States calling it the O'Dea millions.
Would anyone be able to specify what it was, and who in Clare benefited?

Many thanks Sheila. The Meelick Floyd was one of the subscribers in
1856 to the building of Saint John's Cathedral Limerick.

I attach a file listing a large number of people from the Meelick half parish who
in 1856 made financial contributions to the building
of Saint John's cathedral Limerick.

Would anyone have information about the Floyd family,
of whom one was living in Meelick, holding 36 acres,
in July 1867?

In May 1847, at the height of the Famine, Meelick saw the violent reaction of a large assembly of hungry men
against the soup kitchen system of relief, that had been substituted for employment on public works.
It led to a military intervention from nearby Limerick.

they proceeded immediately to ...

Thank you Sheila.

I wonder if anyone could attest occurrence of the
Gaelic word croinin elsewhere in Clare.
It is not listed in O Duinnin's Irish English dictionary.