Clare Past Forum

Thank You Miriam! - for informing us of the graveyard inscriptions for Killballyowen Cemetary in Cross. And they were just downloaded to the Clare Library site a few days ago no less! You are good! :D

I have been waiting to see a listing from that cemetery. Yes Catherine and Michael are my great ...

Miriam - I was a little skeptical that the name "Honan" could possibly be linked with "Green" through "Huoneen" -- but through again searching through these great Clare library links -- I find you must be exactly right. :D

I found a link, in the Clare Literature Section, about the great Clare poet ...

That's funny!! - I think you got that exactly mcreed! Nice to have that cleared up so quickly. I just thought it was strange that the names suddenly changed on that school list.

I would have loved if they asked me for my Irish name going to school in New York--I would have made up something really ...

Thanks Miriam and smcarberry, fascinating info about the origins and Gaelic versions of the Honan name. I had always been told the Irish name for Honan was O' hEoghanain--but I have heard of the other variations.

But I have another (Irish name) mystery here. Bear with me. LOL. I have been looking ...

Teresa, Thanks so much for the link to Conor Honan -- very interesting. This couldn't have been my great-great grandfather Conor though -- since mine was born in 1809 and that Connor died in 1801. So not a father or brother of him either. But I'm sure all of us from West Clare are related somehow! I ...

Theresa, I did some more research and found some more info on your Honans on another message board, see : http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.honan/31.33/mb.ashx Have you seen this? It was an older message.
This mentioned a James born in 1845 in Caherogan. This says that your James' father was a ...

Mary Ann, nice to hear back from you! Great that you got to see Uncle James and the Honan cottage on Loop Head! My father was Don. I did go to at least one of those reunions in Buffalo years back! Amazing how many of us there are. Keep in touch.

Theresa, There is a possibility your James may be a ...

Hi cousin Mary Ann --we share the same great-grandparents Michael and Catherine Honan from Kilcloher Clare! My Grandfather was John. Most of our great aunts and uncles died before I was born-- but I do remember my grandfather John and (great) Uncle Tom - and hearing about my namesake, Uncle James ...