Clare Past Forum

Hi Sheila,

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, again!

With regards to the two Kearsley scholars who on the transcribed listing of the Ennis National School register were the sons of a prison warden, I had a look prior to your last posting for their father William Henry Kearsley. The Kearsley family is well ...

Hi Sheila,

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. There is no need to apologize as your latest postings led me to dig a little deeper into the history of Ennis Gaol. In doing so I also found several mistakes in my last posting.

Firstly, the Ennis Jail in which I believe John Flanagan was incarcerated was on ...

Death from Destitution, Continued

The investigation by the Ennis Board of Guardians into the death of John Flanagan on 12 January 1850 provided probably one of the most detailed descriptions of the death of any individual in County Clare during the Great Famine; a very grim but fascinating ...

Hi Sheila,

The Quiet Revolution article was interesting especially the bit about how the Irishman negotiating with the Finns used the Irish language in his telegraph back to his superiors in Ireland to keep the Finns from understanding their communication. It reminded me of the Navajo code talkers ...

Hi Sheila,

Thank you very much for reviewing the real estate photos of Ballagh House. I agree 100% with your opinion that the third photo would have been a purpose built “out-building”, and not the herdman’s house being leased by Patrick Corbett of Derreen at Griffith’s Valuation.

However, I had a ...

Hi Sheila,

Happy New Year! Looking forward to viewing the 1926 Irish census on-line this coming April.

Thank you for highlighting the painting of the Battle of Aughrim by John Mulvany as I didn’t read that far in the wikipedia article. It is amazing that the painting turned up on the ebay auction ...

TRESPASS.
Mrs. Macnamara [≈1846-1930] and Mr. M.J. Macnamara [1875-1943], Greenpark, Ennis, summoned five young fellows for willful and persistent trespass on her lands at Clonroadmore, on various dates in July.

Mr. M.J. Macnamara soir, appeared for the plaintiff [his mother], and the defendants ...

LINES ON THE ACCESSION OF
THE PRINCESS VICTORIA
BY W.M. DOWNES.

“Oh ! may’st thou ever be what now thou art.
Nor unbeseem the promise of thy spring !”
BYRON

In loyal affection, with high hearts and voices,
__ Exulting we hail thee, young Queen of the Isles !
Victoria ! Victoria ! our country ...

Hi Sheila,

Thank you. Just read your latest posting as I’m about to post this (I cut & paste from a word document).

I see now that there is an Aughrim townland in Tomgraney civil parish which would fall in the Catholic parish of Scariff. So the Scariff priest did not make a mistake with the ...

Hi Sheila,

Thank you for sharing what you found on William MacNamara Downes. The Moher address was interesting which made me think of the well-known Cliffs of Moher. I now realize upon looking at a map, that the Cliffs of Moher are a fair distant from the Cliffs of Kilkee. Back in 1836 W.M. Downes ...

Hi Sheila,

It is spring time now in Canberra, and the cherry blossoms are in bloom. It would be great timing for an Australian to visit their nation’s capital and the National Library of Australia. If coming from Sydney, they could take a break at Goulburn and have a look at the Passionist ...

Hi Sheila,

Thank you once again for sharing your research into the Clune families of Ruan parish, and of course for all your hard work in transcribing the Ruan parish registers.

Your earlier posting on July 22nd highlighted a “James Cloone” in Tullyodea at Griffith Valuation; this was a record I ...

LIMERICK AND CLARE MONTHLY JOURNAL.

The articles in the last number of the Periodical, both prose and poetry, are of more than average merit. “The Fairy Circle, an Irish Tale,” is a most interesting piece, and what is better, it combines with what is agreeable, a useful and instructive moral ...

Hi Sheila,

Thank you for answering my questions. With regards to the address reported on the baptism of George Clune on 17 November 1861, the column heading states “parish”. I believe the choices are only “Ruan” or “Dysert”. In brightening the entry for George Clune, I can make out at least the ...

JACK CLUNE, NEPHEW OF BISHOP OF PERTH.

Jack Clune, the Sydney lightweight, who is to meet Frank Carrol at the Melbourne Stadium on Saturday night, is a nephew of Dr. P.J. Clune, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth. Father Francis Clune of Sydney, also is an uncle of the boxer.

The Sydney lad has ...