Clare Past Forum

"(eels)...were reputed to be able to slither across land from one aquatic place to another..."
Movement of eels between ponds or to dammed water is well-documented. Because they can absorb oxygen from the air through their skins they can live for several hours out of water.

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today (March 21 2025) issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing and information company. The California-based company has publicly reported that it is in financial distress and stated in securities filings that there is ...

Thanks very much for flagging this cornucopia, Matthew. It's jam-pack-full of local history in narrative form. Why have people been keeping this from me ?
The website is very easy to navigate and the original texts are easy to read. Next to each page of original text is, in many cases, a ...

Thank you Sheila and Polycarp for these most interesting postings.
For those following this topic there are some more postings on this forum which can be found by entering the terms 'worm' or 'mash' or 'singlings' (or, of course, 'poteen' or 'poitín' into the forum Search field (top right).

Paddy C

As a halfway usable workaround until this is fixed (it's Saturday evening) one can search the forum with Google by using the Site: parameter, e.g. if looking for the keyword "workhouse"type

site:http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewforum.php workhouse

This will throw up one result with the added ...

Hi Sheila,

Re. copyright, I guess it depends on where the list in the Kilmaley magazine came from. I had assumed, and I no longer know why I assumed this, that the data came from John who had transcribed it. The next step would presumably be to find a phone number of the Kilmaley magazine editor ...

Just an idea: send it to the Clare County Library too so that they can put it on their server/website.

Paddy

At https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.britisles.ireland.cla.general/1917.1971.1/mb.ashx I read "Classification: Query
The marriage of Pat Sheehy and Bridget Halloran is dated on January 26, 1831. This date was published in the 1997 edition of the Kilmaley Parish Magazine. Someone must have ...

Re. the onerous task of record keeping it was my understanding that one of the main reasons why parish priests kept baptism records was to show, when the bishop came by, that he - the priest - was pulling his weight in the parish by co-opting his required number of souls. This explains, so I was ...

See also some musings about the family name Lillis at https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surname ... illis/169/

Paddy

A posting by Heikki on the OSI-ie mailing list this week included a link to a superb little .gif file which shows the progress with mapping townlands in Ireland. The same data display paradigm could be used for tracking all sorts of projects, including transcriptions of genealogical sources such as ...

There are countless maps on the Clare County Library site at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/maps/. They include excellent Search facilities. For example, go to http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/maps/genmap/#M5C-9.07093!52.86467Z9F1* and select Annaghneal under the townlands. You can ...

Posted on the News Scroll on the Clare Roots Society website at http://www.clareroots.org/

Paddy

There was also seasonal migration.

Some years back I was interested in the sudden depopulation of a settlement called the ciseach* (var. cisach – gishagh - Kishough) which lies (or lay) in the northeast of the townland of Moyrhee Commons in the parish of Ruan in the early 19th century (see http ...

* all the quotes are from "Map of a Nation" by Rachel Hewitt (Granta 2010)

E-version of "Map of a Nation: A Biography Of The Ordnance Survey" can be bought (for around €8, I think) at https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=WKOvbjKtelAC&rdid=book-WKOvbjKtelAC&rdot=1&source=gbs_vpt_read ...