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Name: .evelyn pugh carolan <thecarolans@utvinternet.com> Date: 2009-11-23 Comments:
I found this site so interesting. I think I may be related to the Wilkie as I see a photo of my aunt Joan Hartnett (Keegan) my mother was Julia Hartnett born in Killorglin. I know my grandmother Brigid is buried but I have no idea where my grandfather Timothy Hartnett was buried.
my other grandfather Thomas Pugh (old R.I.C.) died in Killarney on 28 Nov. 1923. Would love to contact the wilkie family to see if they could help.
Name: .evelyn pugh carolan <thecarolans@utvinternet.com> Date: 2009-11-23 Comments:
I found this site so interesting. I think I may be related to the Wilkie as I see a photo of my aunt Joan Hartnett (Keegan) my mother was Julia Hartnett born in Killorglin. I know my grandmother Brigid is buried but I have no idea where my grandfather Timothy Hartnett was buried.
my other grandfather Thomas Pugh (old R.I.C.) died in Killarney on 28 Nov. 1923. Would love to contact the wilkie family to see if they could help.
Name: .evelyn pugh carolan <thecarolans@utvinternet.com> Date: 2009-11-23 Comments:
I found this site so interesting. I think I may be related to the Wilkie as I see a photo of my aunt Joan Hartnett (Keegan) my mother was Julia Hartnett born in Killorglin. I know my grandmother Brigid is buried but I have no idea where my grandfather Timothy Hartnett was buried.
my other grandfather Thomas Pugh (old R.I.C.) died in Killarney on 28 Nov. 1923. Would love to contact the wilkie family to see if they could help.
Name: Richard <richbama1172@yahoo.com> Date: 2009-10-27 Comments:
Up the Kingdom !!!
Name: kathleen(Holly)phillips <phillipskathleen80@yahoo.com> Date: 2009-10-18 Comments:
I found out my father's mother and father came from county kerry, Her name was margaret brandon (Holly) and his was James Holly, his parents names were Michael Holly and Ellen (O'Neil)Holly, her parents names were James Brandon and Ellen (Diniheen)Brandon, she emigtrated to new york in 1896 and James followed in 1899. And information on any of their family, I'd greatly appreciate it. James died in 1947 and Maargaret died in 1922. She came from Listowel, but I don't know where James came from
Name: KAROL HOGAN nee mason <karol_frances@hotmail.com> Date: 2009-10-18 Comments:
new to this born new st killarney 1943
Name: Kris MARSH <krismarsh@westnet.com.au> Date: 2009-10-13 Comments:
I am desperately looking for a Jeany and a Tadhg who have lost their wedding ring. I have found it in Perth Western Australia. It has their names engraved inside it and is a man's wedding band. Their wedding date is 1997. Can anyone help me with this?
Name: Kris MARSH <krismarsh@westnet.com.au> Date: 2009-10-13 Comments:
I am desperately looking for a Jeany and a Tadhg who have lost their wedding ring. I have found it in Perth Western Australia. It has their names engraved inside it and is a man's wedding band. Their wedding date is 1997. Can anyone help me with this?
Name: Patrick Kissane <patrick@octa4.net.au> Date: 2009-10-08 Comments:
I want to supply the following link to history of Aghadoe, Co. Kerry.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~patrick6/NUNSTOWN1_.htm
I sent an email to Ann Hammer but the email was returned to me.
Name: Richard R. Kelly <rrksmk@verizon.net> Date: 2009-09-23 Comments:
I thought the information provided was a great help to me. I am very interesting in finding more facts.
Name: Jerri <JamNaz67@aol.com> Date: 2009-08-26 Comments:
I've been able to find great info.
Name: Jean Clark Giesbrecht <giesbrechtjean@hotmail.com> Date: 2009-07-06 Comments:
So proud of my Kerry ancestors- Fitzmaurice/Morgan.
Visited Kerry in 1996- Felt at home there!
Name: Thomas M Quirk <tquirk978@webtv.net> Date: 2009-06-30 Comments:
Been a great help.
Name: Lawrence G. Reifurth <mcreif118@hotmail.com> Date: 2009-05-25 Comments:
Researching my ancestor Cornelius Murphy. This is the best and most extensive site I have found. Will be working here for some time. Keep up the good work.
Name: jack mckinnon <jackmac3@prodigy.net> Date: 2009-04-14 Comments:
i stumbled on this site from another irish site it is quite interesting, my people came from kerry to canada in the early 1800s.keep up the good work.
Name: molyneaux john <john.molyneaux@homechoice.co.uk> Date: 2009-03-13 Comments:
just got back from tarbert. loved it wishe i could have stayed longer. very hospitable thanks .will come back soon
Name: Emer Hussey Casey <ecasey@nyc.rr.com> Date: 2009-03-07 Comments:
How thrilled I was to see Reminiscences of an Irish Land agent, by Sam Hussey on your site. He was my father's grand uncle and I have a first edition copy on our bookcase at home.
Great site!!!!
Name: Diane Bicjan <dkbicjan@gmail.com> Date: 2009-02-28 Comments:
Love your site. Plan on spending quite a bit more time out here on it. Came across it through Google. Great-great grandparents emigrated from County Kerry in 1849 - Kelly and Byrnes (Burns). Plan on taking a trip to County Kerry next year. Can't wait.
Name: Patrick O'Brien <pj.obrien@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: 2009-02-11 Comments:
Hoping to find info on my grandmother Ellen Healy as this seems to be a site dealing with Kerry people only
Name: Mick O Rourke <mickorourke@irishshipwrecks.com> Date: 2009-02-02 Comments:
Thanks
Name: Patrick Larkin <plkazoo@msn.com> Date: 2009-01-18 Comments:
This site is a great resource for me. My ancestors, Michael Larkin and Norah O'Connor were from Clash Listry in County Kerry !
Thanks for your efforts.
Name: Sarah <sarahsparkles47@hotmail.co.uk> Date: 2008-12-13 Comments:
my great grand father was Arthur OConnor MP and barrister at law and i am currently doing more research in to his life, this has given me some info i hadnt found. I also have a copy of another obituary regarding his father William
Name: Eileen <Nivlag1@aol.com> Date: 2008-04-04 Comments:
Very interesting sight. I love it.
Name: Kathleen Poff <toffypoffs@yahoo.com> Date: 2008-04-01 Comments:
I enjoyed reading about how my home parish , Brosna made a split from Knocknagoshel as our families were interlinked in both parishes.
Name: Jim Whiteford <Whitefordjames@AOL.Com> Date: 2008-03-18 Comments:
Thanks for the great site
Name: denis kiely <denis.kiely@cit.ie> Date: 2008-03-09 Comments:
Lehane is the correct spelling of the Lehanes that were in Killarney
Name: Michael L. Townes <michael.townes.ctr@pentagon.af.mil> Date: 2008-03-09 Comments:
Great site. Look forward to continuing my research.
Name: Joseph Waters <jth20jr@hotmail.com> Date: 2008-03-03 Comments:
Tracing my roots, have a ending point of Julia Keliher, Tralee
Name: Joan Clare Hopkins Kavanaugh <kavan3@cox.net> Date: 2008-02-08 Comments:
Dear Friends,
I will be visiting County Kerry, Ireland from June 22 to June 29, 2008. I want to begin searching some of my ancestry. My maiden name is Hopkins. My mother's name was Mary Lundergan.
My great-great grandfather, Patrick Hopkins came from County Kerry in the 1830s with his brother, Patrick.
My father's mother was Mary Matthews. I believe that her family was from County Kerry also.
I will appreciate any help you can give me on beginning a search for my family.
Thank you,
Joan (Hopkins) Kavanaugh
P.S. My ex-husband's name, Kavanaugh, is from another county. Is there a County Kavan?
Name: John Patrick Hourigan <houriganjp@bigpond.com> Date: 2008-01-27 Comments:
Interesting for me As an Australian. Unfortunately, your records don't go back far enough for my purposes. hopefully, I will get some answers from the message board.
It is a great site to help overseas persons searching for their Irish roots without incurring considerable expense.
Name: Joseph M. Kostigen <kostigen@yahoo.com> Date: 2008-01-20 Comments:
have not read enough of this site to comment yet
Name: William H. Fogarty <Sailnb@comcast.net> Date: 2007-12-17 Comments:
A great place for me to start to learn about my heritage.
Name: restauracje różne <info1@info1.pl> Date: 2007-12-11 Comments:
This is a wonderful website.
Name: Pat <cahillane@hotmail.com> Date: 2007-11-27 Comments:
Hi
If any of your folks hailed from Lispole (parishes of Kinard, Minard and South Cloghane) please get in touch. Working on a history project of the parish. Many thanks
Name: Kitchen <mpalygiewicz@info1.pl> Date: 2007-11-27 Comments:
Thank you for your site. I am looking for so many things right now. This is a wonderful website.
Name: Kat Miller <katangel759@yahoo.com> Date: 2007-11-11 Comments:
On the Kerry men that served in WW1 page does anyone know what the initials stand for? Next to their names. Next to the Roche surnames there are initials like WRAMC etc
Name: Shaye Ellen Bureau <sebureau@mailaka.net> Date: 2007-10-29 Comments:
Thank you for putting together such a wonderful site. I have found info on my Boyle/Fitzgerald ancestors on this site and it has been very exciting for me. I hope to make the trip from the US to beautiful Co Kerry within the next year. Erin Go Bragh!!
Name: kevin l casey <carriercooling@aol.com> Date: 2007-10-26 Comments:
Great,Great,Grandson of James Casey born 1840 in
County Kerry, Ireland and died in New Orleans Louisiana 1880.
Could be Great,Great,Great Grandson ?
Name: Catherine Croteau <cmcroteau@comcast.net> Date: 2007-10-26 Comments:
I am thrilled to come across this site. My Grandfather was born in Sneem, Co. Kerry, in 1878 and while I haven't found his family yet, this site will be a great help. Thank you!
Name: Margaret Mary Waldmann Bader <mbader57@msn.com> Date: 2007-10-21 Comments:
Great.
Name: Dawn Dix <larrydix@peoplepc.com> Date: 2007-10-15 Comments:
Seeking information on the Hussey/Enright families, Ballyduff County Kerry Ireland.
My greatgrand father was Patrick Hussey he married Catherine Enright early 1900's I belive.
Their first born was Patrick born 3-1-1902, baptized Parish of Causeway County of Kerry. I'am looking for information on both families and seeking marriage records.
Thanks
Dawn Dix
Name: patricia feeney <feeneypatricia@hotmail.com> Date: 2007-10-07 Comments:
trying find out about my ancester.
born in ireland joanna o donoghue. farther was corniules o donoghue he was a farmer dont know where they came from in ireland need help with this or census return thank you for your help patricia
feeneypatricia@hotmail.com
Name: Janette Welch <janette_welch@yahoo.com> Date: 2007-09-03 Comments:
Very interesting site. I will surely use it.
Name: Helen Bartishel <bartishel@googlemail.com> Date: 2007-09-03 Comments:
Many thanks for this site. Really interesting and informative. Are there any plans to include the 1911 Listowel Census? This would hopefully clear up some missing links.
Nottingham UK
Name: Hameed Francis <hameedfrancis@yahoo.com> Date: 2007-08-24 Comments:
this is brilliant and deserves highest congratulations. It has put together information collected with a lot of labour.
Many thanks
Hameed Francis
Bogota Colombia, South America
Name: James T Sugrue <jimsugrue@aol.com> Date: 2007-07-23 Comments:
Excellent, interesting site!
Name: Jane Cullinane <jane.cullinane21@ntlworld.co.uk> Date: 2007-07-18 Comments:
I think the Keane letter has detaof ils of my Aunty Nelle born 1908 who was married to Jack Daly of Coolick :)
Name: Robin Fitzgerald- Ingram <skilledbtravlr@aol.com> Date: 2007-07-10 Comments:
Thanks for this site we can search for our roots in Ireland on.
Name: Barna Tibor from Hungary <barna.tibor@yahoo.com> Date: 2007-06-05 Comments:
I love county Kerry, this is the most beutyful part of Ireland! I wish see later again! I want to learn gaeilge!
With love, a cristian hungarian fetus-defender young man, Tibor
P. s.: Tibor is my given name, Barna is a family name -- I know, that barn in gaeilic 'child' :-)
Name: Edward Kane <ekane@sympatico.ca> Date: 2007-05-28 Comments:
from Dorval,Quebec,Canada will visit your site again.
Name: Joan Doyle <joandoyle@mail.com> Date: 2007-05-25 Comments:
With your help I was able to trace some long lost relatives. Thanks from the Doyles.
Name: gfhgh <dfgfdg@mail.com> Date: 2007-05-25 Comments:
Very good site!
Name: Ellen (Bresnahan) Ogrizovich <Elogriz@yahoo.com> Date: 2007-04-23 Comments:
Interesting to see names of my ancestors listed on your site :-)
Name: Pat <Ptilley02@aol.com> Date: 2007-04-23 Comments:
I have been on this site several times looking for information, there are lots of it but I haven't been lucky yet. I will keep trying. Pat
Name: Helene Keso <keso@gci.net> Date: 2007-04-14 Comments:
Thank You & Blessings
Name: Eleanor Berube <ellybob@sbcglobal.net> Date: 2007-03-20 Comments:
You have a lot of information. I hope it can help me find my family
Name: Michael O'Connor <mjoc_54@hotmail.com> Date: 2007-03-07 Comments:
Great Site. I've been here many times.
The Conner/O'Connor Y DNA Project is underway.
DNA sequences are listed under the name of
one's furthest known relative.
http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=D77258&special=True&projecttype=S
Name: Susan Moran <SuzyQ12946@verizon.net> Date: 2007-03-06 Comments:
My Grandfather was born in Dingle, Daniel Joseph Moriarty was his name. He was born October 30, 1875 and immigrated to the US as a young boy or man. My dream is to find more of my Dingle family, obtain Irish citizenship, and move home before I die.
Name: John Tafy <jbtaft@eircom.net> Date: 2007-01-27 Comments:
Since retiring to Kenmare from Vermont in 1999, I have been shooting photo's as close as possible as the old photo's. I find your photo's very challenging, as to find lthe right spot to shoot from.
Thank You Very Much !!!
jt
Name: Meadbh <Meadbhmc@Hotmail.com> Date: 2007-01-27 Comments:
i live in kerry and wouldnt haveit any other way!!!
home of sam!!!
xxx
u gotte love the kingdom
Name: bankiety <info1@info1.pl> Date: 2007-01-24 Comments:
Very nice site. Thanks for your hard work in this site. I'm glad I stopped by and will again many times.
Name: Laurie Wilson <laurieewilson@cox.net> Date: 2007-01-23 Comments:
I am excited!
Name: Donald Carson <spooki67@cox.net> Date: 2007-01-16 Comments:
Very Good!
Name: John J Nelligan <jnell79gr@verizon.net> Date: 2007-01-15 Comments:
Hope to be in Dingle September 2007.
Name: Brigid O'Regan <FJOBAO@AOL.COM> Date: 2007-01-09 Comments:
Just starting my Irish ancestory Looking forward to finding great information on your site. I was born in CastleIsland Co. Kerry.
Name: Jack Sullivan <jaxfotos@msn.com> Date: 2006-12-20 Comments:
Thanx to all contributors and organizers at Waterlilys for providing this excellent resource of County Kerry's people and history!! This is a valuable website for Irish Americans and others having a keen interest in their roots and heritage.
Name: Valerie <vmalott@fuse.net> Date: 2006-12-15 Comments:
Your website has been incredibly helpful in putting together some puzzle pieces for my O'Connor/Connor family history! Thank you so much. I especially appreciate the fact that I was able to find so much transcribed for Glenbeigh.
Name: John Griffin <john.griffin@dublin.ie> Date: 2006-12-01 Comments:
I found some useful references to my Kerry grandfather's possible family links. I will pursue some of the sites you listed.
Name: Susana E Vidal <liriov@gmail.com> Date: 2006-11-28 Comments:
Hello, thank you for the opportunity of telling you how comfortable I feel when I search or read in this page. It seems to me that you've made a great effort to get this wonderful database.
My congratulations to you, because you're helping me and so many people. I hope you may go on and not interrupt your valuable work, as We, researchers depend on people like you. Thank you very much again. I don't see that it is in my hands to do something for you, but if you think so, just ask me. I'll try to help in all possible ways I can. Sincerely, Susana.
Name: EllieB <elliebob@sbcglobal.net> Date: 2006-11-16 Comments:
I just found this site and I think it is great.
Name: Huguette Isabelle <h___isabelle@sympatico.ca> Date: 2006-10-23 Comments:
Congratulations for all your awards and success!
Hope that I will find my Irish ancestors.
Name: Mary McCarthy Simpson <mary@msimpson.demon.co.uk> Date: 2006-10-18 Comments:
Think that I may have signed before under my old e-mail, but -
really good to have a great site like the Kerry site to visit. Very helpful.....
Slan,
Mary
Name: Daniel Clifford <dan.clifford@ssa.gov> Date: 2006-10-12 Comments:
Awesome
Name: Ted Luce <tedsred@sbcglobal.net> Date: 2006-10-06 Comments:
Great site. Looking forward to more names.
Name: Carolyn Hodges <snobears@juno.com> Date: 2006-10-04 Comments:
Am so excited. Love your site and on perusal found 3 of my great-great. In Prior found Bart Sullivan and James Denahey. In Boulikeel found John Sullivan. Do not know their dob's but know they were alive in Kerry at that time.
Thanks
Name: Jane Frances Fitzgerald <Jennyomer@superonline.com> Date: 2006-09-27 Comments:
I was born in Kerry to a Ellen Trant and Cyril Fitzgerald. I am trying to trace my ancestors. My great grandfather was James Trant of Clogher Lixnaw co Kerry and his wife was Hannagh O'Sullivan from the Old Court. If anyone can help me with dates etc. I would be very grateful.
Name: Rhonda <rineyrs@yahoo.com> Date: 2006-09-15 Comments:
Thanks for your time on all of this. It's great.
Name: sharon sullivan sipes <sharonadamarronmichael@yahoo.com> Date: 2006-09-14 Comments:
its about time someone thought about the irish nation. lots of people are searching for their ancesters and cannot find them because noone seems to have irish surnames. thanks to people like you now who ever has the interest can look for ancestry and about the towns and whatever their interesteed in.
Name: Marie O'Brien <marielouise1502@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-08-24 Comments:
Very helpful
Name: Daniel J Dwyer <BIGDAN D1@JUNO.COM> Date: 2006-08-21 Comments:
enjoyed reading the site and also entered a querry>
Name: William Knightly <wknightly@satx.rr.com> Date: 2006-08-17 Comments:
Great site. I love it. I am researching my parents who met in Detroit but both come from Kerry.
Name: jim dwyer <pijimmy@webtv.net> Date: 2006-08-15 Comments:
excellent site, very helpful. my dwyer family came from killorglin. thanks again, jim dwyer
Name: Lorraine Moore <lmoor68@bellsouth.net> Date: 2006-08-01 Comments:
This is my first opportunity to view the Kerry Site and look forward to exploring all the links and topics.
Lorraine
Name: Jean Brosnan <jeanbrosnan@comcast.net> Date: 2006-07-17 Comments:
Very nice site and hope to find family info.
Name: Allison Weiland <alweiland@bellsouth.net> Date: 2006-07-12 Comments:
great site, wealth of info. Found address for getting a birth cert. for a g grandmothers 2 sisters born in East Tralee, now need to find out more info
Name: Jennifer Cianci <eolandegwyn@aol.com> Date: 2006-07-09 Comments:
Great Site!!!!!
Name: caeleen <amishsunday@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-05-24 Comments:
I love this site. It has been so hard to find anything on the family name Stack. It is so exciting to finally have some leads on my family!!!
Name: Sky Kerry <sky_kerry@yahoo.com> Date: 2006-05-11 Comments:
i was just wanted to know a little more adout Ireland Thanks .Sky Kerry
Name: Larry N. Fealy <fealyln@verizon.net> Date: 2006-05-06 Comments:
Very well designed and informative!
Name: jim dwyer <pijimmy@webtv.net> Date: 2006-05-03 Comments:
a wonderful sight, very infomative. my grandparents john dwyer and catherine sigerson dwter came to boston usa during the famine. johns father was patrick and mother was johanna casey dwyer from the killorglin area. trying to find patrick and johannas buriel place in killorglin thank you, jim dwyer
Name: Jack Sullivan <jaxfotos@msn.com> Date: 2006-04-27 Comments:
Many thanx for all of your dedication & personal effort that has resulted in this excellent research document!!
Name: colleen <devona_810@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-04-27 Comments:
I look forward to find out more of what I can do to give info I received after visiting my grandfathers birthplace, Chapeltown,Kerry, in March Thanks for this site
Name: Mary K Sharpe <msharpe@elp.rr.com> Date: 2006-04-27 Comments:
Thank you so much for the invaluable service you provide for those of us unable to do the work in person.
Name: Deanda Lyne <dllyne@bellsouth.net> Date: 2006-04-25 Comments:
I have enjoyed searching your County Kerry sites. I am compiling data on the LYNE name from all over the world and have found your site has filled in some missing information. Thank you everyone for the hard work involved.
Name: Debra Summers <grannybeanbags@covad.net> Date: 2006-04-02 Comments:
Hello, just browsing. Have friends that live in Ballylongford.
Debra
Name: Anne Stack Alberts <azannealberts@juno.com> Date: 2006-04-01 Comments:
My father was William Martin Stack, son of Martin Andrew Stack and Catherine Cleary.
After I retired in 2002, I moved to Green Valley, AZ, from DeKalb, IL, where I lived.
We must be second or third cousins.
Name: Jamie O'Connor <Jamo1606@yahoo.com> Date: 2006-03-30 Comments:
I think that this site is very interesting. I have always wanted to learn about my ancestry and this is was pretty helpful.
Name: daniel j. dwyer <bigdand1@juno .com> Date: 2006-03-23 Comments:
very interesting reading , bkut havn't found anything helpful yet.
Name: Daly <dublinerding@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-03-23 Comments:
I am confused with the reference "Hy Cain air Ciaruidhe" in relation to the country chiefs. Irish Gaelic does not contain the letter y?.
Name: jim dwyer <pijimmy@webtv.net> Date: 2006-03-22 Comments:
your site has been very helpful. i thank you
Name: Brian Hernon <hernon@verizon.net> Date: 2006-03-21 Comments:
Just starting out. I've been saying this for four to five months now. Perhaps I'll have something to contribute after my trip this summer.
Name: Kerry FitzMaurice <kerryf1@grics.net> Date: 2006-03-16 Comments:
Very interesting site.
Name: Ankit <ankit.mt@gmail.com> Date: 2006-03-12 Comments:
Dear Webmaster,
I have come across your website while browsing and find the website resource
section quite interesting and relevant to one of our business partner's websites. Please consider posting a link to the below mentioned website under your "Irish Language " section
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Title:Irish Language
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Please do let me know if you want further details.
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Name: Brooke Meyer <brooke_foothill@yahoo.com> Date: 2006-03-08 Comments:
Thank You!! I hope to return many times to learn more.
Name: Maureen O'Connor <mollys_nanny@yahoo.com> Date: 2006-03-07 Comments:
My father was from Fahaduff, Castleisland and his mother Mary Curtin was from Knightsmountain, Knocknagoshel. I know all my family still living in Ireland, but would like to know more about the O'Connor ancestors.
Name: wendy a. wilson <henry.wilson@hunterlink.net.au> Date: 2006-03-03 Comments:
Made me more determined for answers to my Castleisland Kerry questions. <br>Revisits to sight essential.
Name: Jim Cavanagh <jimcav@lineone.net> Date: 2006-02-22 Comments:
Just looking at the site for the first time. My father was from Kerry and I am trying to do some research into the family. <br> <br>Ths site looks good - impressive. <br> <br>Jim Cavanagh, Lancashire
Name: John Bradley <bradleyjrcly@sbcglobal.net> Date: 2006-02-13 Comments:
enjoyed site. Lot of information to look over
Name: Donna McKenna Chamlin <djmckenna@sbcglobal .net> Date: 2006-02-12 Comments:
I am trying to research roots. Dad born in Liverpool but raised by Grandmother McKenna in Killarney and educatioed there Lst communion at St MAry's, Preseentation brothers ed at Abbey in Killarney, left for Loverpool in 1918 Grandmother feared for his safety because of th English and the Easter rising situation. <br>No other info available to me. His given name was Garrett McKenna but went by (Bob)Please advise how to do more withthis site
Name: siobhan dyson <siobhan.dyson@btinternet.com> Date: 2006-02-11 Comments:
very interesting,lots of info,easy to view, WELLDONE TO YOU ALL
Name: DAVID PATRICK JOHN O'CONNOR <DPJOC@AOL.COM> Date: 2006-02-04 Comments:
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Name: dlynch <ouachita71968@yahoo.com> Date: 2006-02-03 Comments:
i live in the ouachita national forest,in the U.S.,Looking for family roots to see if all lynches are hard working and poor. seems like we all like potatos we call m taters i know we have had 5 generations of farming for self support,and give away the extras,good friends,and naebors, and those without D.E.L.
Name: Jackie Walsh <jjtk1@bigpond.net.au> Date: 2006-01-29 Comments:
Great site
Name: Jim Turner <turnerjim@eircom.net> Date: 2006-01-26 Comments:
Kilfenora is the common spelling. It comes from Cill Iniurach ( The church of the Bright Gleam) associated with St. Brendan.
The limestone for the canal in Tralee was quarried adjacent to Kilfenora.
The site is excellent.
Jim Turner
Name: Veronica <ronnie.cruwys@btinternet.com> Date: 2006-01-21 Comments:
Thank you for your site - very helpful. My mother, grandparents and many others lived in Milltown.
Name: Dominic Egan <egan505@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-01-17 Comments:
Hello Kerry
Name: Brian Shea <brian.shea@gdc4s.com> Date: 2006-01-16 Comments:
Very informative site that I hope will further my personal research into the Shea family.
Name: Raphael LeBlanc <cignus7@charter.net> Date: 2006-01-12 Comments:
A thousand thankyous. I found what I was looking for immediately and am so pleased.
Name: Gabrielle O'Connell-Merel <gabs@speakeasy.net> Date: 2006-01-07 Comments:
Thank you for a wonderful website devoted to County Kerry genealogy.
Name: john l farrell <fidem@mindspring.com> Date: 2006-01-02 Comments:
I'd pretty much given up trying to find records of my family. All I've got is anecdotal or downright mythical which I guess is one way of saying malarkey. Thanks for this site
Name: Pat <cahillane@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-12-30 Comments:
Hi
This is a wonderful site. However, I have failed to access the Hanafin/Sullivan Minard website in the Family Associates Website. Can anybody help. Thank you. Pat
Name: Margaret Stack <margpbt@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-12-27 Comments:
I will be traveling to County Kerry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the US and I can't wait to meet some long lost family. My father was Francis T. Stack III and traveled there with his father, F.T. Stack II.
Name: Szymon <smallszymon@o2.pl> Date: 2005-12-25 Comments:
I was interested in Hugh O` Flaherty after having seen a film where he played the main role. I wanted to gain as much information as possible. I found this page very useful. Thank you very much! Szymon from Poland
Name: Angela garcia <Angelag1000@aol.com> Date: 2005-12-07 Comments:
Great, I am making a book for my kids to show where Grandma O'Connor was from - Listowel
Name: Tiffany Stroede (Godfrey) <tiffanys_hagp@yahoo.> Date: 2005-12-06 Comments:
This site helped with my family research. We have traced our family all the way to Major Godfrey of Romhney in Kent, who then went to Kerry in 1653. Very intrested in the history of the Godfrey's in Kerry. I know we own Kilcoleman Abbey estate, just would like more history and photos. Thank you
Name: DANIEL J . DWYER <BIGDAND1@JUNO.COM> Date: 2005-12-06 Comments:
LOTS OF LINFO. PLEASURE TO READ
Name: Randy Conner <rkconner@cox.net> Date: 2005-12-04 Comments:
Great information -Thankyou
Name: Paul Sullivan <sulliv320@aol.com> Date: 2005-11-23 Comments:
Thanks for you research and stories. I enjoyed both.
Name: Thomas M Quirk <tquirk978@webtv.net> Date: 2005-11-22 Comments:
Cousin of the Quirk's of Coomasaharn.
Name: Annette O'Neill <oneilla@bigpond.net.au> Date: 2005-11-05 Comments:
good sold basic information - eg actual names and addresses of churches in kerry
thank you
Name: daniel j. dwyer <bigdand1@juno.com> Date: 2005-11-03 Comments:
thanks to waterlillys for aspectu;ar website.
Name: John Leahy <jonell31@msn.com> Date: 2005-11-02 Comments:
So very pleased to have found this site. Thank you for your efforts on our behalf.
John
Name: peter a oatt <pnapad@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-10-26 Comments:
i'm an irish/londoner & proud of my irishness
mother from tralee & father from cork.
although i have not learnt a lot from your page, it is still very interesting & i will be visiting the site again
Name: brian hannifin <b.j.h@hotmail.co.uk> Date: 2005-10-23 Comments:
very interesting site, please kep up the good work
Name: John Connors <johnpcnnrs@aol.com> Date: 2005-10-23 Comments:
Great work! I admire your dedication.
Name: Denise <Poole> Date: 2005-10-23 Comments:
Great site - will travel to Ireland from the US in April 2006. Looking for Michael Fitzgerald descendents.
Name: James P. (Skip) Weisman <jimsan65@msn.com> Date: 2005-10-23 Comments:
A helpful site; much information.
Name: Steven Brian Connor <connor170@btinternet.com> Date: 2005-10-13 Comments:
excellent site
Name: Patrick Joseph Griffin, III <Rebelecho@aol.com> Date: 2005-10-12 Comments:
Interesting and informative site that I intend to revisit in hope of discovering cousins.
Name: Maureen Shea Hennessy <Sheagirl@aol.com> Date: 2005-10-09 Comments:
I found more relevant info here than any other place. I also found the names of my two grand uncles (John J. and Patrick J.) who both died on the Battleship Maine in Havanna on February 15 1898. They were siblings of my grandfather Timothy Henry Shea( b.1873 d. 1951) three of 10 children born to Michael Shea and Ellen McCarthy of Cahirciveen. Any cousins out there?
Name: Todd MacDonald <todd_macdonald_1@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-10-04 Comments:
just looking at where i'm from. My grand mother is an O'connor she said we are from Kerry
Name: Leonie Lesley Barber <barber2004@bigpond.com> Date: 2005-09-25 Comments:
Feel I have made a discovery for future explorations although I was really searching the Net to find the town from whence came Sydney Swans Australian Football League (AFL)player. Wathced the Swans win the Grand Final yesterday and the lad doing a little jig when he received his medallion. Thought the pub, in Kerry, where family and friends gathered to wath the game, seemd like a very cosy place to be. Haven't been to Ireland but like many, many Australians have roots there - in Tipperary and elsewhere(?).
I shall return to this site when time and work permit. I am a busy migration consultant in Melbourne, where the game was played.
Kind regards
Leonie Lesley Barber
Melbourne
Australia
Name: James Foley <RunSmooth@aol.com> Date: 2005-09-24 Comments:
Found site to be very helpful in my search for family data.
Name: micheal o floinn <rconor@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-09-17 Comments:
really helpful and well constructed site.
Name: karine beaupré <karinevacancies@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-09-12 Comments:
WoW is a beautiful site, go to see my site at http://www.irelanddream.com
Name: james <bobandann77@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-09-07 Comments:
thanks for an interesting site lots to help diolch yn fawr. james
Name: Rita Burton <tylerhill5@aol.com> Date: 2005-09-05 Comments:
I have been looking at the guestbook, and i was fascinated by peoples stories, i will have to go back to read the other half, as i saw that it will take me a long time to read them all. my father was born and raised in RHODES KELLS. CO.KERRY. in 1906. he ws one of 9 siblings. when i went back many years later, it was so proud and overwhelmed that the homestead is still standing, albeit it was made out of drystone walls. the same front door, i felt as i had stepped back in time. it was a happy and a poignant time for me, i was taken to kerry s a 2 year oldand again when i was aged about 8/9 then i stayed on Valentia Island, on my aunts farm,who was my dads only sister, they had a farm, i attended school there, my teacher was a Mr,Griffin, and he had always lived on Valentia, till he passed away in 2002. i had many happy times on then farm in CREOGH, sais as crawe i believe..when we went 2 years ago, the land had been sold and it was just the farmhouse left, and a stunning view of the sea where we used to run down and skinny dip as children, being a little girl from london, the culture was so different,but children are very adaptable, and soon settle down. i do wish i had asked my dad more about his childhood, but he never said too much about it.i was always keen to research about my irish roots my grandparents.in Ireland. i really love my kerry roots, and feel as much of part of it when i visit, it is my other home. well done for the site being here, i found it by of way of asking on a site for genealogy given to me, and am i pleased, i cant tell you what it means to me, good luck and god bless.
Name: Chester Park <capark@davtv.com> Date: 2005-09-02 Comments:
Thank you
Name: Julian Robert Masters <julian.masters007@btinternet.com> Date: 2005-08-31 Comments:
We had a marvellous two week holiday in Ballyledder, staying opposite Mary And Lynne. Thank You.
Name: Rae Mortensen <raemor@aol.com> Date: 2005-08-29 Comments:
I am finding the Kerry Site very interesting and hope to use some of the information given in it. Thanks for maintaining the site.
Rae
Name: Nathan Moriarty <nathanbsu@msn,com> Date: 2005-08-27 Comments:
United irish
from walla walla washington USA
Name: Kerry O'Brien <obrienkv@austin.rr.com> Date: 2005-08-27 Comments:
Nice site. I look forward to getting over to County Kerry from Texas one day soon. I hear it's green, yeah?
Name: Marlene Hurney <marsmemories@sio.midco.net> Date: 2005-08-21 Comments:
Looking for McCarthy's in Zelton, County Kerry, Ireland.
Name: Kim Hanafin Morgan <kimehmorgan@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-08-21 Comments:
This is a wonderful site! I am buiding a family tree and this site is providing me with much needed information.
Name: Patti Raye Miller <rpm1938@whidbey.com> Date: 2005-08-19 Comments:
Surnames were very helpful in extraction work of Irish names for birth and death records.
Patti Raye Miller
Name: Brenda Kerslake <brendakerslake@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-08-17 Comments:
Great site will be back to look somemore very soon
Name: Rae Mortensen <raemor@aol.com> Date: 2005-08-07 Comments:
I am happy to find your site and look forward to investigating it in the near future.
Name: Patricia (Graney) Wolf <pwolfpat2000@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-08-06 Comments:
Hello, this is a wonderful site. Lots of information. Told my uncle he should go to Ireland, have been twice, and when you see all the Irish names it's like coming home. Keep up the good work! Pat Wolf
Name: John McCullough <jmcculla@bellsouth.net> Date: 2005-08-01 Comments:
I hope it will provide me with a path to find my grandfather and any records with info on our family prior to his immmigration to Americal
Name: Helen Stanbro <h_stanbro@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-07-19 Comments:
How exciting to read of the exploits of Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty! I hope someday he will be canonized!
Name: JOHN MOORE <AMOORE181@NYC.RR.COM> Date: 2005-07-16 Comments:
GREAT SITE.
Name: Sarah OConnor-kerry <sarahsparkles@btinternet.com> Date: 2005-07-12 Comments:
It was lovely to visit the web page and learn a little more about the county of my ancestors and to see pictures of the family castle!It makes me realise how lucky i am to have such an interesting family history
Name: John Sheehan <johnsheehan@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-07-06 Comments:
Great website. I recognize the family names that my father would fondly talk about.
My father, David Sheehan, born 1900 in Garavanne--a few miles outside of the village of Mountcollins, Limerick--just across the river from Brosna.
There is a David Sheehan listed in the 1820 Tithe Valuation --http://www.geocities.com/bluegumtrees/Genealogy.html
--who is possibly my great-great grandfather.
Regards,
John Sheehan
Name: Kathleen Hanifin Bond <bond_k@mitchell.edu> Date: 2005-07-01 Comments:
Very nice website.
Name: Eileen O'Regan Wheeler <leenie5477@adelphia.net> Date: 2005-06-26 Comments:
Thank you for this page!
Name: Jack Taylor <jack.taylor@comcast.net> Date: 2005-06-24 Comments:
This is a great sight. It is is informative and educational, Ess]pecially for the long lost sons of Kerry.
My grandfather, Joseph Taylor (born Circa 1878 in Kenmare)arrived in NYC in 1898. He has generated a big American family. Any Taylors in Kenmare that read this , I send my regards,
Jack Taylor
Name: seamus kelliher <seamuskelliher@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-06-22 Comments:
First visit .Interesting ,I will return .
Name: Eileen K <wckland@webtv.net> Date: 2005-06-12 Comments:
You have answered so many questions. Thank you all for your work. Just wish I could find my family. I am sure this will help sooner or later. Eilen K
Name: Kathleen Timmons <KAY5PYT@aol.com> Date: 2005-06-08 Comments:
Great site. I've been on the Kerry mailing list for years and enjoy reading the postings. I have been to Co. Kerry and agree that it is a beautiful place.
Name: Thomas F. Ashe <lashe65460@aol.com> Date: 2005-05-24 Comments:
Great web site
Name: Katie O'Brien <ktob04@aol.com> Date: 2005-05-24 Comments:
I enjoyed the site very much. It would make my grandfather proud. Thank you, Katie O'Brien
Name: Mary McCarthy Simpson <marysimpson77@onetel.com> Date: 2005-05-24 Comments:
Very interesting, useful, friendly, and human site!!
A welcome respite in the almost impossible task of tracing great- grandparents who most unhelpfully de-camped to London without leaving old addresses for reference.....
Name: Gary Shine <gateryry@toledosuper.net> Date: 2005-05-23 Comments:
Your site is very refreshing. Though I don't think I found my family in Ireland. Iam grateful for the chance to view some records that I have searched for.
Name: Ted O'Keeffe <tedokeeffe1@oceanfree.net> Date: 2005-05-23 Comments:
Excellent. Very interesting. Keep up the good work
Name: Jenn <brockmann_06@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-05-20 Comments:
I thought this was a good site and is a very useful geneology site
Name: Colly <collyg@btinternet.com> Date: 2005-05-11 Comments:
My uncle Jimmy Murphy died on Monday 9th May 2005 he lived in Castleisland did anyone know him.
Name: Nancy Hollinrake <cnhollinrake@aol.com> Date: 2005-04-28 Comments:
An excellent resource for those researching archaeology and local history, as well. My congratulations to the designers.
Yours,
Nancy
Name: Ann Smith <MINi9045@aol.com> Date: 2005-04-25 Comments:
Thank you for posting the Currow marriage list, I found my gggrandparents Wm. McCarthy and Hannah Morris. I appreciate all the work youve done. Thanks so much!
Ann
Name: Virginia A. O'Sullivan <sweetpea66az@msn.com> Date: 2005-04-14 Comments:
This is a very nice site to come and look at. Thank you for taking care of it.
Name: Eileen McAley <eehoger3840@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-04-11 Comments:
I found this site very interesting and realize I need to read a lot more!. Thank you all, for all your hard work.
Name: Kerry Martin <kerry5480@aol.com> Date: 2005-04-11 Comments:
Just looking into the Country of which I was named, freckles and all.
Name: Bernard Mannix <straceyroad@aol.com> Date: 2005-04-09 Comments:
The site is without doubt one of the best Irish family history sites around.I have in the past been grateful to you for information received,I hope you will be around for many years to come,helping family researchers like myself.
Name: Donald Beaudoin <dbeau78255@cs.com> Date: 2005-04-05 Comments:
An outstanding cite.
Name: Catherine Dorgan <sarahlreilly@yahoo.co.uk> Date: 2005-04-04 Comments:
I am a grandaughter of the said Mike Dorgan in Minard, Lispole Co Kerry. I have an extensive knowledge of the Dorgan family and would be happy to share it with interested parties. I am using my daughters email address.
Name: Natalie Thompson <natwick@comcast.net> Date: 2005-04-02 Comments:
This is a wonderful site! I am helping someone with their Irish research and really got involved with this whole site....so much interesting reading. However, both my friend and I tried to e-mail John Knightly using the e-mail address listed and cannot reach him. Can you help? Thanks....Natalie
Name: Jennifer Shea Peine <speine @sbcglobal.net> Date: 2005-03-22 Comments:
Great site! I need more information farther back though. Most of my Ancestors came over here before many of your information begins. But still a very informative site! Thank you!
Name: merle rawiri <merlerawiri@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-03-20 Comments:
being a Maori from New Zealand I had a job tring to read the names
Name: Yvonne O'Sullivan <yos@dodo.com.au> Date: 2005-03-12 Comments:
I like looking at this site eventhough I haven't had any luck with my searches. I'm at a dead end. Keep up the good work!
Name: Adam Jones <ajones49@artmailbox.com> Date: 2005-03-02 Comments:
Nice job, keep up the nice work.
Name: Patrick O'Grady <patrick.ogrady@ogm.com> Date: 2005-02-23 Comments:
Great site! Please keep up the good work.
Name: John W. Bierman <biermajw@notes.udayton.edu> Date: 2005-02-23 Comments:
I've just discovered your site and found it beautiful and loaded with information!
Name: Jerry Dwyer <gdwyer@dwyerecon.com> Date: 2005-02-20 Comments:
This is a very helpful site. Lots of information.
Jerry Dwyer
Name: Eric S. Clarke <eric.clarke@irishcastles.net> Date: 2005-02-17 Comments:
I found the kerry site very useful for information relating to our castle research. We are compiling historical facts after spending 6 years photographing over 2000 castle remains.
Name: Debbie Hobson <debathome99@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-02-16 Comments:
I have been trying to find my family dating back to the 1800's and your site has helpful
Name: Helen Dineen <walden4@eircom.net> Date: 2005-02-12 Comments:
Lots of information.I have to spend more time on your site. I have been on my cumputer with the last 4hrs without succes. What a pity I did not find you sooner.
Regards,
Helen.
Name: Helen Dineen <walden4@eircom.net> Date: 2005-02-12 Comments:
Lots of information.I have to spend more time on your site. I have been on my cumputer with the last 4hrs without succes. What a pity I did not find you sooner.
Regards,
Helen.
Name: Bob Higgins <higginsbmsa@msn.com> Date: 2005-02-11 Comments:
I am coming to Ireland in Aug. My grandmother was born in Tuoquist. Will be trying to find where she lived
Name: Jennifer Martino <!@#> Date: 2005-02-09 Comments:
t h a n k s
jenn martino
Name: Tom Lyons <tvrl524@aol.com> Date: 2005-02-07 Comments:
Great site with a tremendous amount of info! Hoping it will answer some of my questions.
Name: Patrick <tg4-174@hotmail.co.uk> Date: 2005-02-07 Comments:
Brilliant site. Can anyone help me with info on Thomas Ashe the Irish patriot.Thank you. Patrick
Name: Matthew Murphy <mattandcarmel@eircom.net> Date: 2005-02-02 Comments:
I came across your site for the first time on Tue 1st Feb 05, while trying to trace my family roots. Very good and most interesting,so far. I am interested in the whereabouts of the Murphys who owned a Hotel in Killarney town and substancial farmland in Fossa Killarney. I believe there may be relations living in the Chicago area.
Name: Bernadette Kondrat <bernadette@kondrat.fsnet.co.uk> Date: 2005-02-01 Comments:
A very good site
Name: micheal diggin <mike.dch@paradise.net.nz> Date: 2005-01-29 Comments:
Very good,interesting and informative.keep up the good work.my grandfather micheal diggin was baptised in st.james catholic church in september,1849 and died here in masterton,new zealand here in march,1942.Haere Ra!
Name: Kate Nichtern <wnichtern@cinci.rr.com> Date: 2005-01-27 Comments:
checking out your site as I will be visiting Co. Kerry the Abbeyfeale area once again next month (March)...
Name: Kathleen Teahan <lkykar@aol.com> Date: 2005-01-26 Comments:
Just starting my research and was glad to find Kerry sources available for general searching.
Name: Mike Hall <mbhall1949@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-01-24 Comments:
I appreciate your work on this site.
Name: Mivian Hegarty <mhegarty@duchas.ie> Date: 2005-01-17 Comments:
Full of interesting facts about my heritage
Name: Paul Sullivan <jupa1935@shentel.net> Date: 2005-01-16 Comments:
Great site, Has been a pleasure to search for my roots starting here.
Name: Jack Gallagher <jack@connect.ie> Date: 2005-01-15 Comments:
Just printed off Flesk Castle for an old friend
(89yrs). His Great Grandfather Coltsman built it.
So thank you for taking the time to putting these up on web for us
Name: James Francis Cahillane <jcahillane@aol.com> Date: 2005-01-04 Comments:
The Northampton MA 350th anniversary committee has just published THE BEST PLACE OF ALL: An Irish-American Memoir of Pluck, Luck & Automobiles. It tells of the city's Tercentennial mayor, James Cahillane, (1910-1991) of Killorglin, Co. Kerry. It is available on line at two sites which I ask be listed on the Kerry site www.gazettenet.com/350 or Historic-Northampton.
Name: Sandra Cummings <sandracummings@comcast.net> Date: 2004-12-29 Comments:
Loved the Roibard O'Dwyer stories!
Name: Ed Stack <estack@astound.net> Date: 2004-12-26 Comments:
Quite interesting. Didn't find anything about Ballylongford and the cemetery on the old monastery grounds.
Name: patrick fell <kerrydog1> Date: 2004-12-22 Comments:
Very interesting, keep up the good work
Pat Fell
Name: Bonny Cahalin <pnnymllr@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-12-10 Comments:
Thank you very much. I learned a lot. And you all have a very pretty place there. Thanks for the site.
Sincerely,
Bonny cahalin
Montana
Name: V.G. Shea <tortidilut@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-11-29 Comments:
Good site.
Name: Michael John O'Connor <mjoc_54@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-11-14 Comments:
I find myself comming back to your site time after time.
Thank-you for putting together a wonderfull collection of information.
Here is Andrew O'Connor's Family since arriving on Prince Edward Island Canada about 1819.
http://users.eastlink.ca/~dfaith/oconnorpage.html
Michael John O'Connor
RR1 Murray River,
Prince Edward Island, Canada
mjoc_54@hotmail.com
Name: John Carthy <john.carthy1@ntlworld.com> Date: 2004-11-10 Comments:
Looks great lookin forward to using your site
Name: Pat Lobue <akl4917@bellsouth.net> Date: 2004-11-02 Comments:
Enjoying your Co. Kerry website. We had a priest here in Hammond,Louisiana,U.S.A.for 9 years from Listowel, who's now back in St.John's Parish Centre,Tralee,Ireland. We're awaiting his photo on the Diocese of Kerry website. Thanks!
Patricia Lobue
Name: Tangney, Sean-Ann <seantangney404@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-11-02 Comments:
Very helpful. My ancestor who came to America was John Joseph Tangney from Castleisland who was baptized in 1842 at St. John's church. I believe his father was Jeremiah Tangney. Perhaps that is the Jeremiah listed here.
Name: Christine M. Ferriter <ballyferriter97@earthlink.net> Date: 2004-10-31 Comments:
I enjoy this website. Full of useful information!
Name: James O'Leary <jamesarlene@aol.com> Date: 2004-10-29 Comments:
very helpful to us in U.S.A.
Name: MaryPat Carey <cmarypatc@aol.com> Date: 2004-10-22 Comments:
Lovely site, much to offer ...
Hopefully I will be successful locating some ancestors while here .
Name: Robert Duggan <robert@rduggan.com> Date: 2004-10-15 Comments:
Love the site. Will spend more time on it.
Name: Mary Else (Mahony) <m.else@ntlworld.com> Date: 2004-10-11 Comments:
Very interesting but not enough information to help me with my family tree.
Name: Shane Dorney <dorneysf@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-10-06 Comments:
I am impressed with the detail, though I am barely able to graze the surface. I am from Texas looking back and I feel so connected to Ireland through my ancestors it is amazing what you can find if you look
Name: Rose Evans <rp22e@adelphia.net> Date: 2004-10-01 Comments:
Absolutely delightful and very informative.
Found some entries that I was looking for - thank
you very much.
Name: Daniel E. O'Connell <72110.1736@compuserve.com> Date: 2004-09-21 Comments:
Thank you very much for access to this wonderful resource.
Dan O'Connell
Name: Frans Koevoets <Frans.Koevoets@12move.nl> Date: 2004-09-13 Comments:
Thanks for the beautiful information of a good catholic priest in his works for jews an humanity
Name: mags <margaret.wilby@btinternet.com> Date: 2004-09-13 Comments:
on my tree Honoria O'Connell was married the 2nd time to John Mahony
Name: leah <princetiger@btinternet.com> Date: 2004-09-12 Comments:
good site
Name: margaret wilby <margaret.wilby@btinternet.com> Date: 2004-09-11 Comments:
You are total angel......I wish I had found this site sooner, now I can make my family tree right and correct all the errors and spelling (I copied the tree from a tree my granddad made)......if you were here now I would kiss you, you are the best.........sorry I'll stop whittering on now. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.
love mags xxxxx
Name: Patrick Quirke <qurkpj@aol.com> Date: 2004-08-24 Comments:
I just found you,you look good''
Name: Robin Fitzgerald Ingram <skilledbtravlr@aol.com> Date: 2004-08-22 Comments:
Thanks for the site
Name: Peggy <QUINN> Date: 2004-08-22 Comments:
I have so much to learn aboutIreland. Your site has been helpful. I visite Ireland once, stayed in Killarney and found the name of myGGGrandfather on a church window. This has sent me on the search in Kerry. Thanks for your help!
Name: Janette Cronin <janettecronin@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-08-17 Comments:
I came across this site by chance and think it's great. The gravestone information was particularly good and I believe the details on my GGGrandfather was listed. Thanks so much.
Name: Maureen Broderick <mmcreynolds@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-08-02 Comments:
Wonderful, informative website! Love the maps and the history articles. Thank you!
Name: Pat <jdelsav@aol.com> Date: 2004-07-24 Comments:
My Mom was born in Listowel at Latchford's farm in 1910.Her Dad worked at the mill. Through this site I learned that it was owned by a Mr. Richard Latchford from Tralee.
thanks very much.
Name: Gerry and Maureen Ahern Davis <artisans1@aol.com> Date: 2004-07-16 Comments:
Great site.Have been to Sneem many times as well as the rest of Kerry.Love the Area.Best of luck.
Name: Judy Robertson-Wellhauser <taz1965@sympatico.ca> Date: 2004-07-16 Comments:
Very interesting site.
Name: BARTHOLOMEW DONNELLY <BARTDNLY@AOL.COM> Date: 2004-07-12 Comments:
I'M BACK LOOKING FOR CONNECTION AND THIS LOOKS LIKE THE RIGHT PLACE TO START. GRANDSON OF BARTHOLOMEW DONNELLY AND HANNA DAVIS OF LIXNAW,KERRY
Name: Deb (Keleher) Trobaugh <Trobaud@cableone.net> Date: 2004-07-10 Comments:
Thanks for all the fantastic information regarding County Kerry!
Name: Alan Smith <alsmith@grunskylaw.com> Date: 2004-07-10 Comments:
Helpful information on my search.
Name: dean andrew oconnor westran <dw014f1668@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: 2004-07-05 Comments:
hi there any one know any irish private surgens in county kerry that i could visit while looking at the family history.
i require private surgens reviews of medical files from operations in uk.
deano
free ireland from uk for ever.
Name: Mary E. Whidden <Bob4USC@aol.com> Date: 2004-06-30 Comments:
Nicely done!
Name: Tony O'Brien <nodogs@tiscali.co.uk> Date: 2004-06-29 Comments:
Great site. My father Robert O'Brien (r.i.p.) was a Tralee man. Today would have been his 75th. birthday. I have visited the county several times and find myself drawn there more and more. I look forward to visiting the sight a lot more in the future and see if I might have any relatives in the Abbeydorney/Kilflynn/Tralee areas.
Name: Leslie Duncan Relihan <lesrene@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-06-29 Comments:
It is interesting to find evidence of my family name in your records
Name: Corinne O'Connell <corinneo_c@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-06-27 Comments:
This is an amazing web site. I have just recently dicovered my husband's ancestors came from County Kerry. The wealth of information you have compiled is remarkable. Thank you for your dedication of Irish history to help inform us, the Canadian Irish decendants.
Name: Chuck Hill <chuck@rfci.net> Date: 2004-06-25 Comments:
This is the first time I have visited this site and I look forward to gathering information
Name: Julie A. Laumark <joobie810@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-06-24 Comments:
This is a wonderful site! While visitng Dingle in 2000, I stumbled (literally!) upon the grave of LAWRENCE GRIFFIN & think he may have been my great-grandfather. It's really nice to have further information about him.
Name: Mary McCarthy <MAMME53196@aol.com> Date: 2004-06-04 Comments:
Very good a lot of information thank you
Mary McCarthy
Name: Ole Meyer <olemeyer@unifi.it , olemeyer@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-06-04 Comments:
Allow me a correction for the information on you homepage abouut Msrg. O'Flaherty,"The Vatican Pimpernel": the name of the Roman prince that helped him was not Filippo Doria Pamphili, but Andrea Filippo D. P., commonly referreed to as Andrea rather than Filippo. He was made maoyr of Rome when the Allied forces arrived 60 years ago today, 4.8. 1944
Name: BARTHOLOMEW DONNELLY <BARTDNLY@AOL.COM> Date: 2004-05-28 Comments:
GREAT INFO,HOPE YOU CAN FIND THE HELP TO FINISH IT.
Name: Roy C. Smith,Jr <cortez@dasia.net> Date: 2004-05-20 Comments:
Glad to see Kerry Kates name up again.
Name: Ted Kennedy <kennedybus@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-05-16 Comments:
A very good site and the best of luck to all
I will come back to it from time to time and pass it on to my customers
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Name: Thomas F. Clougher <tfclougher@aol.com> Date: 2004-05-12 Comments:
I am helping an O'Connor descendant with Glenbeigh in the Iveragh Barony. Many O'Connors there. But it appears that not all baronies have bbeen list. I have some of Sneem area (Dunkerron South, Kilcrohane Parish. Would I have to transcribe from an LDS film and can I do that. Seems like a lot of work.
Name: b.t.brosnan <brian@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-05-11 Comments:
Its a start to my as yet embryo interest in my name roots. thanks
Name: MARYELLEN ENRIGHT NEGRETE <NEGRETEJMK@AOL.COM> Date: 2004-05-04 Comments:
GREAT SIGHT ON LISTOWEL AND ENRIGHT FAMILY WERE MY FAMILYS FROM THANKS CHICAGO .IL
Name: Marilyn Evans <mlevans2@msn.com> Date: 2004-04-25 Comments:
Excellent site. Found some additional family history information.
Name: Nolan,Mary Frances <mfaye@paradise.net.nz> Date: 2004-04-17 Comments:
So pleased I found you. I am visiting Kerry in May 14-18 , this year, so have found the information on this site invaluable .
I already have information about my greatgrand parents & grandparents so am just wanting to walk in their footsteps.
Name: H. Jablome <hjablome@webave.com> Date: 2004-04-14 Comments:
I can't wait till I can visit Ireland!
Name: Margaret Reynolds <margereynolds@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-04-13 Comments:
Thank you this has brought together several facts I could not connect
Name: Mary Harvey <lmsh@nf.sympatico.ca> Date: 2004-04-12 Comments:
Greetings from Newfoundland Canada. This is a very informative site,very interesting,i am another who has just started searching into the past,i am interested in any info. on the ENGLISHES
from northern Ireland especially those who immigrated to Canada.Thanks,
Name: Maurice T. Hattier <Moehat@aol.com> Date: 2004-04-09 Comments:
This is my first time here and I am just getting started. You have given me lots of info. Thanks.
Name: Bill Patten <bill@patten.com> Date: 2004-04-07 Comments:
Ta she maith!
I was looking around for pictures for my computer background, and Kerry came to mind first. I hope someday to stand on it's soil.
Liam
Name: Trudy Hillgrove <trudymeister@gillanet.net> Date: 2004-04-05 Comments:
Such a very nice site. And very easy to follow. Well planned out. Thank You.
Name: John Joseph Flynn <weatherwatch7@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-04-04 Comments:
A long desired trip to Ireland (especially County Kerry) is hoped for by this coming Fall. A family genealogy project from over twenty years ago was lost and I'm hoping to find information on the Flynn's emigration to America during the latter famine years. Any guidance will be much appreciated!
Name: Alyce O'Sullivan Blach <asouthbrooky@bellsouth.net> Date: 2004-03-29 Comments:
I believe, after some research, that I am an O'Sullivan Mor and your site was of terrific interest. Thanks you very much!
Name: Ron Cantelon <roncantelon@shaw.ca> Date: 2004-03-25 Comments:
I found it very well designed and easy to use.
Name: Marty Landman <martylandman@face2interface.com> Date: 2004-03-24 Comments:
Thank you for this interesting website. The Penal Days article was most enlightening. I once worked with someone named Kerry O'Brien and didn't realize it was a historical name but reading the history of Kerry explained that it was.
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Name: sean cotter <sjcotter@optonline.net> Date: 2004-03-23 Comments:
great site.Thank you!!
Name: Juan Luis <jlgx@eresmas.com> Date: 2004-03-23 Comments:
I´m from Spain, I was looking for Tralee, the town where I´ve been when I was younger, and find your site has been great, I`ve remembered lot of things looking the map of the town.
Great page, but greater your country!
I wish I could go there again in my life.
Live the Rose of Tralee!
Name: Louanna Cox <lcox@pycon.com> Date: 2004-03-22 Comments:
I found this artile enlightening.
thank you
Name: Nancy Ferriter Sutphin <nfsutphin@earthlink.net> Date: 2004-03-21 Comments:
Thank you for sharing with others.
Name: D.J. SouthanBred <LiDaryl@aol.com> Date: 2004-03-20 Comments:
DJ SouthanBred and the SBE Clique was here!
Name: DFDolsen <d.dolsen@att.net> Date: 2004-03-19 Comments:
Excellent site.
Name: Thomas Joseph Corridon II <vacorr8@aol.com> Date: 2004-03-19 Comments:
Your site has lead me to want to research my surname. I'm not sure if we are from Kerry, but there are more Corridon's there than I've seen any place else in Ireland. I live in Virginia, USA, my family was originally from Jersey City , New Jersey. My grandparents came from Ireland, but the history is not well documented.
Name: Chip Dox <Chip.Dox@abc.com> Date: 2004-03-17 Comments:
Site answered our questions perfectly! Thanks!
Name: Vince <www.weedrecords.net> Date: 2004-03-17 Comments:
Happy St. Patricks Day to all from Wee Drecords.
Name: Marilyn McGuire Hardesty <Marilyn.Hardesty@comcast.net> Date: 2004-03-13 Comments:
I found this website to be a huge wealth of information. Thanks for all the hard work at putting this together.
Name: Joan Griffin <joanmgriffin@aol.com> Date: 2004-03-09 Comments:
Very helpful site. I found one of my ancestor's marriage
Name: janice struthers <janices@alphalink.com.au> Date: 2004-03-07 Comments:
I found this site so interesting. I have just started researching my family tree and I think...we are related to Eager> Blennerhassett> Coppinger>Herbert>. I may be jumping the gun. I hope not. Will know more in a few days. Great site.
Name: Victor S Dingle <vsdingle@ns.sympatico.ca> Date: 2004-03-04 Comments:
Nice site my interest is in the name Dingle and where the name originated.
Name: Jack Donahoe <Donahoe1951@aol.com> Date: 2004-02-26 Comments:
It took me 0ver 50 years to finaly visit my home. Last Ocober my daughter brought me to Ireland. Unfortunitly we depended on my sence of direction rather than common sense, and managed to miss every thing we had planned on seeing. However, this was a blessing for we saw what we never expected to see, orange butts on sheep, a huricane in Dingle, the police (Garda) station in Enniscorthy, and two rainbows driving from Nass to Limerick. And oh yes, the best eclaire I've everhad, just west Roscrea. My parish priest Fr. Joe Hennessey of St. Josephs in Kingston, MA. told me that I would feel like I came home. Thank you to the people of Ireland for making me feel that way. I would have taken sometime to check on relatives, but in the back of mind I suspect that they would be better off not knowing me. My son who is a paratrooper in the US Army was miffed that we did not include him in our trip. I had to start planning a trip with him when he is home on leave in 2004. His sense of direction is better than mine. He has yet to fall up out of an airplane, and usually hits the ground in tact. Thank you for this opportunity to express my gratfulness to the people of Ireland and we will see you soon.
God bless you all, and may the Blessed Virgin Mary pray for our troops.
Name: Edward L. Walsh <edandann@outdrs.net> Date: 2004-02-23 Comments:
Great-grandson of Patrick Walsh of Gortdromockery, Killarney RC parish, Kerry Ireland. Thanks for the website.
Name: Gerard O' Regan <oregan52@eircom.net> Date: 2004-02-21 Comments:
Mons.O' Flaherty article excellent.
Few know this but while O' Flaherty was assisting pow's in vatican,his brother in law purchased the engines of a downed german air force aircraft which forced landed near Waterville on Dec 26th 1941 and kept them at the rear of his hardware store in Caherciveen and very few historians will tell you that.
Name: Roy Smith Jr <cortez@dasia.net> Date: 2004-02-20 Comments:
Thanks to all,
At last I have found a place I think I can make some progress. Again thank you very much
Roy C. Smith Jr
Name: Christine Martin nee McElligott <abbeycat26@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-02-20 Comments:
Really interesting to see the old photographs from Kerry, thank you. Chris Martin (Brisbane Australia)
Name: Juanita Baker <raccoon@scottsbluff.net> Date: 2004-02-19 Comments:
will be back to look some more.
Name: cherie riley <realyriley53@aol.com> Date: 2004-02-18 Comments:
you are doing great keep up the good work, you have my vote
Name: Rudy DiMaggio Jr. <Ro82223@aol.com> Date: 2004-02-15 Comments:
I neglected to say that it was my parents 50th wedding anniversery.
Name: Rudy DiMaggio Jr. <R082223@aol.com> Date: 2004-02-15 Comments:
I am so pleased to have found this site, for it gives me the opportunity to see where my Love comes from. Because I love her so much, I want to find out where family comes from, to see the land of her herritage. County Kerry is truly a beautiful place and I can't wait to see it with her. I am of Austrian and Italian herritage and have gone to Austria many times. I, like my Love, have a great pride in our roots and this site allows me to get "aquainted" with her home country. She has never been to Ireland, but this summer we are going to Austria to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversery and will be going to Ireland, to County Kerry afterwards. We will be spending (hopefully) 1 week in County Kerry. I Can't Wait! Thanks again for a wonderful site and I will be visiting again.
Name: roy c. smith,jr <cortez@dasia.net> Date: 2004-02-12 Comments:
I am just starting my searching. Thanks so much for the many tips you have provided.
Roy
Name: Michael Fitzmaurice Jr <Mickey.Fitzmaurice@noaa.gov> Date: 2004-02-09 Comments:
Your site was a very good starting point for me in my research for a trip to Kerry. As a native American with Irish roots in Kerry, I was quite happy starting at your site.
Name: marion rardon <wammacox@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-02-08 Comments:
my family were from kerry a family member came to kerry but was not there long enough to find out if we had famley stell there .
marion rardon
Name: suzanne reedy russell <szyrdy@cox.net> Date: 2004-02-04 Comments:
Very helpful...thanks
Name: Thomas M. O'Sullivan <Pax7742@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-01-28 Comments:
Enjoyed this site. My grandfather was Edward O'Sullivan. Died when my Father Joseph (deceased)was 6 Months old. Edward had a sister a nun St. Josephs in Brentwood N.Y. Sr. Mechtilde. Died early 70"S. Any info on my Grandfather would be appreciated!
Name: Patrick D Counahan <pdjc@comcast.net> Date: 2004-01-28 Comments:
Thanks for the help.
Patrick
Name: James O. Rice <jrice0909@mebtel.net> Date: 2004-01-25 Comments:
Have been using your sight in searching Edward Rice (b 1690 Dingle). It is very interesting and useful. Hope to visit someday.
James O. Rice
Mebane, North Carolina
USA
Name: Sara Noonan Cecchine <SaraCecchine@aol.com> Date: 2004-01-20 Comments:
I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to all who have contributed to your site with family information and records transcription. I found a reference to this site on a message board in Rootsweb and Ancestry.com. I found a couple of records for my family and it brought tears to my eyes. My mother has searched over 30 years, and it was your site that gave us the first link to our Noonan family. For all these years we only knew 'County Kerry' was where we came from. Now I have been able to make contact with possible living relatives in Minard West. Again, with all my heart, I thank each of you for the time and effort you've made to help us find our families.
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5 ¶ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful eday of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
(Old Testament | Malachi 4:5 - 6)
Name: Richard Herbert Finnegan <rhfinnegan@earthlink.net> Date: 2004-01-19 Comments:
The site is just super on all counts; real serious work & information — hats off, say I, and five gold stars on the report card to all concerned!
As a direct descendent of the Rt. Hon. Henry Arthur Herbert, MP, builder of Muckross House, Killarney, through the first marriage of his second son, Charles James Herbert, to Adčle LeMoyne, of Montreal (a marriage never correctly nor fully chronicled by Burke’s), I read the “Muckross/ Herbert Excerptsö with great interest, but would like to correct some information in the quotes from Tim McCarthy’s Recollections (published privately in 1996):
1) Edward Herbert, of Castleisland, married Frances (not Francis) and her family surname (of the Earls of Kenmare) was Browne, not Brown;
2) Edward was not the first Earl of Muckross as my cadet branch of the extended Herbert family descended from Richard Herbert of Colebrook/Coldbrook, Gwent, Wales, in the 16th century (in this case through his son John) was never ennobled;
3) Arthur Edward Guinness (double “nnö please), first & last Baron Ardilaun, did not marry a Herbert although his wife, Lady Olivia Hedges-White, was the daughter of Jane, Countess of Bantry, née Herbert and a sister of the builder of Muckross House.
Muckross House (muckross-house.ie) has published information on the family history both in its elegant Guidebook, and in various issues of its twice-yearly Newsletter, while every issue has information about Co. Kerry history, especially as pertains to Killarney.
I’m also very pleased indeed to be a Kerry man on both sides, my paternal Grogan ancestors having also lived near Castleisland; I’ve been able to trace them exactly.
Name: Nicole <tupper77@hotmail.com> Date: 2004-01-19 Comments:
I am from Canada and will be heading to Ireland in the spring. My family roots are based there and I would love to see where my great grandparents once lived.
Name: nellie moran <morannell> Date: 2004-01-19 Comments:
If we have death certificates, marriage licenses, or other legal documents (or just information) about emigrants from Kerry, would you like them?
Yes, I would like to contact other "seekers of ancestral history."
I think your website is marvelous. If I can help contribute, I would be honored.
Name: john mcdonnell <righteous992003@yahoo.co.uk> Date: 2004-01-18 Comments:
good site i am looking for any relatives of james mcdonnell lisaniska foxford co mayo.in usa
Name: KEITH HEARN <HEARNSCOTT@AOL.COM> Date: 2004-01-14 Comments:
What a great site - congratulations. We are moving to Kells, Co Kerry this year and would appreciate any sites you can direct us to with historical info. It is one of out hopes that we can study local history when we arrive. Our house is one of the oldest in Kells and we would like to research it. Best Regards
Name: Robyn Coghlan <prcoghlan@netspeed.com.au> Date: 2004-01-13 Comments:
Grenham's Irish Record Finder shows a portion of Ballyseedy parish on the southern shore of Dingle Peninsula, below Ballynacourty. This is not mentioned in your description of Ballyseedy parish.
Name: Sue Bevan <suebevan@tiscali.co.uk> Date: 2004-01-11 Comments:
We are coming to Ballinvoher on holiday in august 2004 and wanted to view the area hoping to find a detailed map but unsuccessful.
Name: Patrick D Counahan <pdjc@comcast.net> Date: 2004-01-11 Comments:
Attempting to locate were our family came from
Name: Ken Hughes <j.milne@extra.co.nz> Date: 2004-01-04 Comments:
a very good site , lots of excelent info. keep up the good work , have a happy new year ken.
Name: Amy Amidei <amyroses2@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-12-31 Comments:
Wondering where it is possible to purchase the volumes Albert Casey compiled?
Name: Robert E. Griffin <griffin_r@msn.com> Date: 2003-12-31 Comments:
This is a woderful site and an extrodinary resource. Thanks to all involed in making this wealth of information available.
Name: jessie taylor <jessietay@sprottshawcollege.net> Date: 2003-12-30 Comments:
very interesting i could spend long hours rifleing through all the information of ireland
Name: Graham Williams <williamsfamilly@msn.com> Date: 2003-12-30 Comments:
I was deeply moved to tears by the revelations of the potato famine.My gr,grandparents Patrick Scannell and Mary Cronin were married in Skibbereen 13th Feb 1859 after which they left Ireland for Merthyr Tydfil,Wales.I did,nt know them but now understand the misery they must have endured in their childhood.Many thanks Graham.
Name: Edward Chanod <echanod@purolator.com> Date: 2003-12-28 Comments:
Interesting stuff.
Name: Susan and John Goggin <sgoggin@sbcglobal.net> Date: 2003-12-26 Comments:
This is a terrific resource for information about the family. Really interesting to see our relatives names appear in this way. Thank you for creating this website!
Name: Betty Howard <betty725@sasktel.net> Date: 2003-12-26 Comments:
I am Canada and am doing a history on my family.
This is the perfect site for all the divisions of County Kerry that I could find on the net.
Also it has the best history of my ancestors on it too.
I have enjoyed this site for hours and hours now.
Thank you so much for all your help. I'm sure I will be back.
Name: Miceal O'Corrain <irishvet@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-12-24 Comments:
A great site, thank you. My father was from Beenbawn, Waterville, Co. Kerry.
Name: J. Raymond Gallivan <gallivanjr@aol.com> Date: 2003-12-12 Comments:
Thank you for having me!
Name: Martha Slatery Erickson <marthase@aol.com> Date: 2003-12-09 Comments:
For research you may be interested in"Books of Survey and Distribution"#40 when the O'Slatteraghs land was given to Lord Clare 1640 - Ballyslatteragh (also called "Newgrove") in the Parish of Tulla. According to Trinity C, records this was the original name spelling that changed when the Brits could not pronounce it properly. My ancestor Patrick Slatery came to the US c.1695.
Name: pat. temperley <patricia.t@lycos.co.uk> Date: 2003-12-09 Comments:
at last something that is free
Name: Mary Jane Sinkwich <mjsinkwich@al.com> Date: 2003-12-08 Comments:
Great place to begin my research into County Kerry, Thanx!
Name: Daniel M. Moriarty <Daniel2043@aol.com> Date: 2003-12-06 Comments:
Quite interesting. I hope to spend some time there. I've been to Ireland twice, but not enough time to really know Kerry.
Name: John Patrick O'Connor <ARBFAM@aol.com> Date: 2003-12-02 Comments:
Enlightening web site especially the one by John
Willoughby. I am the Family Historian at the library
in Springfield,MA which has as does Chicopee and Holyoke a large contingent from the Dingle peninsula
Name: Gene Carson <ECarson106@aol.com> Date: 2003-12-01 Comments:
Thank you. I am working on a book and enjoy being able to review your excellent contribution
www.genecarson.com
Name: Dennis O'Neil <nom42d@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-11-30 Comments:
I was uplifted to read your account of the heroic
exploits of Msgr. Hugh O'Flaherty. In an age when the worst of human behavior is celebrated, you are doing your part to keep alive the heroes from whom people can find needed inspiration. I watched The Scarlet and the Black last night. I am amazed how closely it followed real events.
Again, thank you
Name: Carmelita Raney <CarmRaney@aol.com> Date: 2003-11-30 Comments:
I might have found some relatives listed on this site. Thanks. If it turns out I'm right - I'll let you know.
Name: Denisa Casement <denisa_c@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-11-29 Comments:
Sir Roger Casement was not an Englishman as your web page states. He was from The Casements of Antrim and his mother was a Jephson from County Wexford. He is one of the Patriots of the Easter Rebellion and a very well known historic figure. I hope your other "historical facts" are a bit more accurate.
Name: Daniel Herlihy <djch39@aol.com> Date: 2003-11-26 Comments:
I located a few famly names at this site. The problem is my family is supposed to come from Cork
Name: Ms. Kerry James <kayjms@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-11-25 Comments:
Aloha from Hawaii:
Your info regarding County Kerry was very helpful since I am researching the clans. Now I can further research the traditional kilts of the clans.
Regards,
Kerry James
Name: Kevin Manning <KevinCMann@comcast.com> Date: 2003-11-22 Comments:
I spent a few enjoyable hours surfing this site,
Name: Ruth-Ann M. Harris, Dr. <harrisrd@bc.edu> Date: 2003-11-19 Comments:
I have a database from the Boston Pilot "Missing Friends" column -- I was the editor and inaugurator of the project. I'd be happy to share the information I have if I could have some technical assistance.
Name: Genealogy & History Links Library <bbsantor "at" pacbell.net> Date: 2003-11-18 Comments:
A very informative page as well as series of pages. The Genealogy & History Links Library has provided link(s) to appropriate County Kerry web sites.
Please visit and make sure that we have the proper notations to your information.
The page where your information appears is:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genealogylinks/fgn/UK/frgn_IRELAND.html
Name: DERMOT MACGILLICUDDY <dmacg32@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-11-16 Comments:
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
STARTING OUT TO PLOT FAMILY TREE
Name: Larry Talbot <lhtalbot@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-11-15 Comments:
This is the greatest site I have run across for sorting out the parishes. The maps are wonderful.
Now I can understand the locations of all the names I run across searching various databases.
Thanks for all your work and time!
Name: Cindy Mac Suibhne <maceltic@clover.net> Date: 2003-11-12 Comments:
I'm going to give a short speach to a group at the FHL i Wintersville, Ohio. It's going to be about causes that lead up to A Gorta Mor. I found information on these pages very useful.
Thank you for your great work!!
Cindy
Name: Keith Turner <kturner66@cfl.rr.com> Date: 2003-11-10 Comments:
Very informative site.
Name: Mary Ruth Harriss <mrlh@pe.net> Date: 2003-11-08 Comments:
Happy to find resources to look for family in County Kerry up to 1858.
Name: Susan Hicks <schicks@peoplepc.com> Date: 2003-11-06 Comments:
Your site is wonderful, it explained many of the problems I have been having with understanding "irish" parishes civil verus religous.
Is there any update on when the catholic records will be finished on the database?
Name: Tom Fergus <Tomfergus@earthlink.net> Date: 2003-11-05 Comments:
Stayed up until 3:00AM reading the Notes of Joe Wilkie of Killarney. I was born in the town in 1934. My maternal grandmother a Hartnett, who originally lived at Mountain Stage, later owned a boarding house in Annadale Road, Killorglen. Her brother came to Buffalo, New York, but returned to Mountain Stage. I'd love to know his name. Your site is a goldmine for me. Thank you.
Name: Ruth <variety36@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-11-05 Comments:
This is a most wonderful site. I have found so much in here that other sites want to charge for.
Being on an extreemlt limited budget I can only say a huge Thank You and God bless.
Even when not in a reasearch mood I love comming here and just wandering and having alook at a County I hope and pray to visit some day.
Name: amy somers <somertimes4@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-11-01 Comments:
I am currently searching for any information on my father's grandfather, his name was James Michael Greene. He is supposidly related to the late Patrick Sarfeld of the 1300. Could someone help me. My dad's name is Patrick Sarsfeld Greene, his father was Patrick Sarsfeld Greene and he married Laura Carson. My dad has 3 siblings: Michael Greene, Mary (Greene) Glass, and Fanny (Greene) Medley (twin girls). If anyone could help me in this search, I would really like the help. The family is from County Kerry, Ireland. Amy
Name: Cheryl Gerstner <ldss@novocon.net> Date: 2003-11-01 Comments:
It is nice to know some history of where my family came from. I am having a hard time though finding addresses to churches in what I believe is Bellview, Tralee, Kerry County. Is there a resource I could use that would help me?
Thank you, C Gerstner
Name: Judy Crisp <bobcrisp@verizon.net> Date: 2003-10-29 Comments:
Just started to search your sight. I hope it will give me some information that relates to my Irish roots.
Name: Patrick L. Wilson <revl.wilso@juno.com> Date: 2003-10-25 Comments:
My grandfather Patrick Moriarty came to the America at the age of 18. He died Aug. 3,1923.
His parents (Patrick & Joan O'Conner) lived in
Kiclummin, Co. Kerry.
Name: E. M. O'Hogain <sma@wananchi.comb> Date: 2003-10-23 Comments:
A number of comments on your website.
1. Historians do not regard Dorothy McArdle’s Tragedies of Kerry no more than her lengthy history of Ireland as reliable source material in matters concerning the war of independence (Anglo-Irish war) and civil war, as she was a partisan supporter of De Valera and for many years one of his leading propagandists. Thankfully there are now available some good accounts of the atrocities carried out on both sides during the civil war in Kerry.
2. During the war of independence the most active parts of the country were Dublin and parts of Munster – particularly Cork, Clare, Tipperary and Limerick. Kerry was conspicuously lacking in action, although a small number of distinguished Kerrymen participated in the war outside their county, particularly in Dublin. Indeed other activists during the Anglo-Irish War were wont to say in frustration that all Kerry did was allow Casement to be taken. This, of course, was an exaggeration, because there were some small military actions in that county and some notable acts of moral courage (such as the Listowel Mutiny). It was not surprising that there was so little action within Kerry’s boundaries. English tourists had been coming to Kerry in numbers from early in the 19th century and far from being a far-flung outpost on the periphery of the Empire, certain parts of Kerry were quite sophisticated, largely due to English visitors. An empathy had grown up, or at least an economic relationship, which made attacks on the British unpopular among the generality of the population.
3. When the Civil War broke out Kerry sprung into action, causing wonderment in Dublin and in those counties which had borne the brunt of the fighting against the British. Kerry was up-in-arms against the Treaty and there was real action now in the seizure of barracks and arms. It was said that many old scores – nothing to do with independence – were now being settled. That may or may not have been the case, but is an unlikely explanation. What did happen is that Michael Collins – a man vilified by Dorothy McArdle for decades – sent down the Dublin Guard to Kerry. This unit had developed out of Collins’ original Squad (Twelve Apostles) which had grown into a group of some thirty during the Anglo-Irish War and eventually was formed into a full battalion, led by Paddy Daly, second-in-command of the original squad. Having participated in the bloody war in Dublin (including the elimination of the Cairo Gang and the execution of informers as well as numerous other selected assassinations) these were tough, ruthless, determined men. In the event they suppressed the anti-Treaty forces effectively, and ruthlessly where they were opposed, suffering themselves small causalities (sometimes inflicted with a similar ruthlessness by anti-Treaty forces).
E.M. O'h'Ogain (Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa)
Name: Paul Galvin <pfg2@bigpond.com> Date: 2003-10-22 Comments:
May I congratulate you on a marvellous site.
Name: Skip Weisman <jimsan@powerantilles.com> Date: 2003-10-21 Comments:
the locations of the parishes is most helpful.
Name: seamus <sf1925d77@aol.com> Date: 2003-10-20 Comments:
I enjoyed it very much will be back to read the rest of your program.my family comes from elfin,roscommon in west.bye god bless
Name: Charles Laverty <laverty@optonline.net> Date: 2003-10-20 Comments:
I'm researching a Confederate general, Humphrey Murphy (American civil War) and an intrigued that the Humphrey -- lardly an Irish given name -- appears twice in your really helpful charts. If something positive comes of this, I trust by then to remember to advise you! This can take months, even years. (In NYC I became an acquaintance of the great Kerry footballer, Gega O'Connor (about 1955-60)-- a rival of my late brother, Bob who played for Mayo - tho we're from Tyrone. Gega was a gentle soul but a determined competitor -- one of the best.
Charles Laverty (US Army Special Forces, Retired)
Name: Padraig Brosnsn <cloghroe@gofree.indigo.ie> Date: 2003-10-19 Comments:
Thanks for the memories and for sharing them with us I come from " The Hibernian" New Street Killarney and have heard of many of those names you recalled. Looking forward to seeing scanned postcard an next visit to site.
Name: Daniel O`Leary <olearydan531@aol.com> Date: 2003-10-16 Comments:
Working on family connection in Glenbeigh,O`Connor,Clifford,Shea,Sullivan and O`Leary. Feel free to email me anytime,Dan
Name: sarah costello <sarh908@yahoo.co.uk> Date: 2003-10-11 Comments:
fantastic site that has help me find some records family names and dates
Name: Samantha <Sammannthaaa@aol.com> Date: 2003-10-10 Comments:
I just visited Ireland for the first time recently. I think the country is beautiful and her citizens are very warm and engaging.
Name: mychael Bowler <MychaelSlayer@aol.com> Date: 2003-10-08 Comments:
just looking for members of the bowler family
Name: osullivan <colleen9535@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-10-07 Comments:
patrick william osullivan in 21st north british fusileers crimean war balaklava/inkermann 1854/55 settled south australia 1870 married scotswoman mary pollock some family spread to west australia appreciate help in recording origins of family his father was michael osullivan and my name is colleen (nee 0sullivan) he was my g-g-grandfather and died in Adelaide south australia.
Name: Lizzie Nichols (nee Hanafin) <liz_nichols99@yahoo.co.uk> Date: 2003-10-04 Comments:
keep up the good work ..... finding way around site slowly but surely :)
Name: ken zebrowski <kenzebrowski@zebrowski.us> Date: 2003-09-28 Comments:
I am looking for information about a Thomas Leonard who was the great uncle of my two oldest children. He had a sister Florence who was their great grandmother.
Thomas Leonard was an IRA Officer.
When he died, in America, his obituary was in the N.Y. Times with that information.
For their sakes I would like to know more about him and his accomplishments.
Thank you. Ken Z
Name: Ed O'Connor <edoc@prodigy.net> Date: 2003-09-28 Comments:
John Willoughby has encouraged me to check his research for some of my Crean/Rohan connections. I've just finished looking through the "Castlegregory" marriages and I've found the marriage of Michael Crean and Honoria Rohan who are my great great grandparents. Thanks to John and to my friend Brendan Lynch whom I've finally met in person. Their research and advice has been an invaluable tool and has brought me closer to my Irish roots.
Name: Helen Stacey <nell.stacey@btopenworld.com> Date: 2003-09-27 Comments:
On this site for the first time looks very informative I am now going to go on your Family sites
Name: Patricia Ann Donahoe <fiona30@earthlink.net> Date: 2003-09-27 Comments:
I so enjoyed your site. I just didn't have enough
time to spend. I need to find more information
before I can continue my search. Thank you!
Name: James Dineen Burden <JBurden@aol.com> Date: 2003-09-24 Comments:
This is a marvelous site. Thank you for creating and maintaining it.
Name: lorraine slater (nee sullivan) <lorraine.slater@ntlworld.com> Date: 2003-09-24 Comments:
thankyou for your site i found it very helpful
Name: Drinda Shea Lally <dml44@earthlink.net> Date: 2003-09-23 Comments:
A few years ago I received information that my great-grandfather had a farm in Kerry. It was thought to be in the parish of Tralee. Imagin my surprise when we found that the farm was actually in Clogherbrien. All the information was such a gift. It just propels me to dig further.
Thank you for all the information you have supplied.
Name: Raymond J Hartnett <raynlola@bigpond.com> Date: 2003-09-21 Comments:
A very informative site.This is the first time that I have used it.Thank you for your work to promote Irish genealogy.
Regards
Raymond J Hartnett
Name: Mary O'Donnell Mulcahy <moira18702@aol.com> Date: 2003-09-20 Comments:
Many great resources! Thank you very much.
Name: Gerald Costello <soccer1237@aol.com> Date: 2003-09-19 Comments:
Thanks for the information!
Name: richard downing <richadowi@aol.com> Date: 2003-09-18 Comments:
Nice website!
Name: GRACE RAPP <gmr7815@aol.com> Date: 2003-09-17 Comments:
Looking forward to reviewing your web site. I have been looking for years in Kerry. Maybe this is just what I need. Thank you
Name: Margaret Carroll <margaret.carroll@xtra.co.nz> Date: 2003-09-15 Comments:
Great site.Where is Ballinorig Kerry or which townsland is it under. Looking for James, John. Ellen and Johanna children of Patrick and Margaret nee O'Connell. James born about 1861.Johanna born Tralee.Cheers from New Zealand.
Name: Desmond Murphy <desmurphy@idx.com.au> Date: 2003-09-14 Comments:
Great Site --
Thanks especially to Pat McSweeney for his transcription of the " 1901 Census, Coolies, Coolies DED, Killarney Parish, Magunihy Barony "
Much obliged. Des Murphy, Lake Macquarie, NSW,
Australia.
Name: John O'Daly <john.odaly@btopenworld.com> Date: 2003-09-14 Comments:
Thank you for the helpful information. I now have 95 names in my family tree going back to my ggrandfather/mother.
JOD
Name: Nora Connolly <noraconnolly@eircom.net> Date: 2003-09-13 Comments:
Very interesting Website.
Name: diane cowlin <dcowlin@netidea.com> Date: 2003-09-06 Comments:
Hello. I have been searching the web for information of my great grandfather, thomas finley, with few results. During my search I came across this website and am looking forward to learning more of the country that thomas came from. Thank you for having this site available for those of who live so far away. I live in a small city called Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada. Best wishes to you all.
Sincerely Diane Cowlin
Name: John Sutton <john.sutton7@verizon.net> Date: 2003-09-05 Comments:
Very nice site although I just found it tomight and haven't really given it a thorough review yet.
Name: Karen McCarthy <kmaloney86@comcast.net> Date: 2003-09-03 Comments:
It was exciting reading about folks in Killarney around the time that I know my family was still represented. I've visited the town and can see in my mind's eye, a lot of the places mentioned.
Name: dorothy heffernan <declanpet@yahoo.com.au> Date: 2003-08-30 Comments:
Being a relation of your mentioned william godfrey and wife kate mary bury i can give you the exact date of marriage and date of birth of their only child - mary alice godfrey. Date of marriage William and Kate Godfrey is . The date of birth of their only child mary Alice is 29/12/69, register no is l0327/46. Dwelling place of father William is given as 9 Besboro avenue,Dublin.Kate died aged 29 on 15/2/1881 and is buried in Glasnevin cememetry Dublin (plot no. Vh256- no headstone).
Name: kim kane <kimkane@adelphia.net> Date: 2003-08-28 Comments:
my husband's four grandparents were from the great blasket island, dingle, dunquin. always enjoy finding info about the area and families. all settled in springfield mass. we currently live in burlington, vermont.
Name: Jeanie <Islandrovers> Date: 2003-08-25 Comments:
Thank you for such a thorough and lovely site. My paternal family hails from Dingle and still have family here. Have roots as well as from Cobh(Cork) and Roscommon. I LOVE the history sections as I grew up with such info and finally it is being released after so many years. Let the TRUTH be known. Bless you and to ALL Learn remember and pass it on!! There is so much rich history in our blood. Success to all in their searches. Many Thanks again :O)
Name: michael moriarty <mori0@beeb.net> Date: 2003-08-23 Comments:
My heart lies in Ireland, my mind lies in England. Why did you walk away - you could have ruled the British Isles - and now we must all contend with Europe.
Name: Karen Moriarity <celt50@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-08-22 Comments:
While I have had a good deal of trouble finding my Grandfather Thomas Moriarity who died in April of 1955 in Buffalo New York and hailed from County Kerry or Cork or perhaps Cork Township in Kerry and married a woman by the name of Nora in Ancestry.com I feel that I may be well on my way to being able to track my family history through your site and I thankyou !
Karen
Name: Gerard Hoey <gphoey@eircom.net> Date: 2003-08-16 Comments:
Just discovered this site and hope it will help me in my family research.
Many thanks
Name: martin mc gowan <martinjmcgowan@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-08-16 Comments:
great site.it would be great to see more about kerry since 1916
Name: W. Timothy Dowd <timdowd@swbell.net> Date: 2003-08-14 Comments:
Thanks for the hard work behind this website.
Name: Jean Clark Giesbrecht <giesbrechtjean@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-08-14 Comments:
Interesting site for irish family research.
Name: Patricia Marie Whelan Braziel <brazielp@earthlink.net> Date: 2003-08-13 Comments:
I am the great granddaughter of Patrick Chauncey Whelan, Balleyduff. I wrote my Great , great aunt Molly Whelan during the 70's. She stayed in Balleyduff after my grandfather and his wife (Anne) came to the US. Glad your site is there to help us find our history. I have a long way to go.
Name: Rebecca Miller <AlohaMA@aol.com> Date: 2003-08-13 Comments:
I recently visited Ireland for two weeks. Went to Galway, Dublin, Waterford and other places. But, I especially love County Kerry!! I would either go back again to visit, or even am thinking of moving there! I love the area and Dublin so much, that I am thinking about moving there.
Name: Michael & Jeanne Cullen <tintean9@cs.com> Date: 2003-08-12 Comments:
We bought our house in Liscullane about 6 years ago.We are in love with the area. Michael is from Dublin, Jeanne from USA> Hope to return soon to live permanently in Kerry. The site is very informative and easy to navigate! Thanks!
Lawrenceville,Georgia (temporarily!!)
Name: Michael & Jeanne Cullen <tintean9@cs.com> Date: 2003-08-12 Comments:
We bought our house in Liscullane about 6 years ago.We are in love with the are. Michael is from Dublin, Jeanne from USA> Hope to return soon to live permanently in Kerry. The site is very informative and easy to navigate! Thanks!
Lawrenceville,Georgia (temporarily!!)
Name: Jerry Sullivan <sullivan.jerry@principal.com> Date: 2003-08-12 Comments:
My family is from Kenmare. I was born in Chicago, Ill. in May 1947. We visited the parish in Kenmare and the priest was very helpful in locating my grandmother Sheehans family and places of birth. I think it is the most beautiful
part of Ireland.
Name: barbara minnaar <bisabel@shaw.ca> Date: 2003-08-11 Comments:
I am searching for my great grandparents, John and Sarah Butler who left for the U.S.A. IN THE 1980'S
Barbara
Name: Thomas F. Clougher <tfclougher@aol.com> Date: 2003-08-06 Comments:
My family are the O'Connors (or Connors) of Moulagullane, Kilcrohane, Sneem, Kerry.
Name: Larry Talbot <lhtalbot@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-08-05 Comments:
Very helpful site. Well done. Thank you.
Name: THOMAS JOHN DILLON <Thomas.Dillon@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> Date: 2003-08-05 Comments:
Hello Ireland
some day I may touch the soil over there,the Lord
willing
Name: Russell Thorne <thorner@xtra.co.nz> Date: 2003-08-04 Comments:
Researching Hickey from Crinny Meenleitrim and Ballinattin.
Name: Rachel Brown <gapabschen@aol.com> Date: 2003-08-01 Comments:
Thanks for the site - it is informative, educational and just plain fun!! A lot like the people I met when traveling through county Kerry (and the rest of Ireland)two years ago.
Name: WILLIAM D. OBRIEN <OBRNWLLM@AOL.COM> Date: 2003-07-31 Comments:
SITE IS VERY HELPFULL-YOU MUST PUT ALOT OF TIME IN.THANKS.BILL OBRIEN
Name: Peter McCaffery <peter.mccaffery@lineone.net> Date: 2003-07-25 Comments:
A really valuable resource. Many thanks to all concerned!
Name: Francis J. Greaney <fgreaney2001@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-07-24 Comments:
very interesting!
Name: Sean O'Brien Lynch <sean@propeer.com> Date: 2003-07-24 Comments:
My uncle and my mother's brother, John O'Brien, as a youth of 14 or 15, was taken from a sick bed at Dunquin, County Kerry, and the family had no word for about a year. He had been incarcerated in the Killmainham jail. The family never found out what was the reason for his being taken. It is interesting that he later became a prison guard at Meridan, CT but died at the young age of 54.
Name: Joan O'Brien <jobrien@ixpres.com> Date: 2003-07-23 Comments:
Very helpful, thank you
Name: pendergast <berger@net> Date: 2003-07-19 Comments:
civil war was more uncivil than i thought in kerry
Name: H. D. Smith <smith3@cox-internet.com> Date: 2003-07-18 Comments:
Best online site for genealogy information on County Kerry.
Name: Becky Mantle Starks <mantlesearch@aol.com> Date: 2003-07-18 Comments:
Thank you for such a wonderful Web site.
Name: patrick mccarthy <pmccarthy03@aol.com> Date: 2003-07-17 Comments:
i am trying to trace my family history, and feel i can get a lot of information on you're site, and feel that it will only be a matter of time before i trace my family history....
Name: Charles F. Smith <csmith@maine.rr.com> Date: 2003-07-16 Comments:
A most helpful site! Very useful in searching records!
Name: joan quilter <jquilt4@juno.com> Date: 2003-07-15 Comments:
I just needed confirmation that my family name dated back to the Normans. Thanks.
Joan Quilter in Santa Cruz, California
Name: Debbie Redmond <MoScholar@aol.com> Date: 2003-07-13 Comments:
Living in America, am interested in my roots.
Name: geraldine Carbone <tralicokerry@comcast.net> Date: 2003-07-12 Comments:
Most helpful indeed. When the Jeanie Johnston was being built in Blennerville, my Husband, and our Two Children and myself went on it and was given some original wood from the ship. Now that it is going to be in Boston, we are all excited to once again go on board this ship and possibly take a photo with the Captain and get him to sign the wood for us.
Name: Jerry McCarthy <jerry.mccarthy@parliament.govt.nz> Date: 2003-07-10 Comments:
Just found this wonderful site, will enjoy exploring it. I was born in Killorglin, Co Kerry & came to New Zealand in 1961. Love and best wishes to all my relatives and friends in Langford Street. God bless.
Name: James Wickham <jamesw374@aol.com> Date: 2003-07-09 Comments:
My mother, Ellen Hickey, was born in 1909 at Knocknagullane, Rathmore. She worked at Cahill's in Rathmore, and came to America in 1930. She married Michael Wickham in 1936, and they raised 6 children on 15th street in Brooklyn.
I have purchased the old Hickey house at Knocknagullane, and am in the process of renovating it. I plan to spend several months of the year in Kerry.
Name: Eileen O'Connor <eileenoconnor82002@yahoo.co.uk> Date: 2003-07-09 Comments:
Very interesting. I love the origin of the surname bits. I live two miles from Carrigafoyle Castle, and I have attended two clan reunions at Carrigafoyle. Great craic.Makes one proud.
Name: Joan Hale nee Maloney <rojoha2@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-07-09 Comments:
excellent information - thank you.
Name: Kate Hone <Kateh@catfanatics.com> Date: 2003-07-09 Comments:
Good site, easy to navigate. I found the historical info very interesting
Name: Thomas F. Ashe <lashe65460@aol.com> Date: 2003-07-03 Comments:
I am just getting started at your web site and I hope this will be a learning education. I was introduced to your site by my brother Outbrits@aol.com,. Thank you
Name: Mary McCarthy <MAMME53196@aol.com> Date: 2003-06-26 Comments:
Your doing a wonderful and I thank you. Mary
Name: Denise Owen <Owendenise@AOL.com> Date: 2003-06-24 Comments:
This was very helpful and infomative. Just the information that I was searching for. So well written. Thank you.
Name: MARY <GROVERBASH@AOL.COM> Date: 2003-06-24 Comments:
JUST CAME BACK AFTER A WEEK IN KERRY WITH RELATIVES...HAD A NICE VISIT IN YOUR LOVELY COUNTY! THANKS FOR INFORMATION ON GREGORY PECK'S VISITS TO KERRY. HE WAS A GOOD MAN. MAKES ME PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN OF KERRY HERITAGE! MARY,BOSTON
Name: Jon Stevens <jonsteevens@onetel.net.uk> Date: 2003-06-23 Comments:
Just wanted to know where the name Tutchell Street came from.
Thanks
Name: Brian Kelly <jbriankelly@msn.com> Date: 2003-06-20 Comments:
What a great website. It's as though I stepped back in history. I wish that my grandparents had lived long enough to relate similar stories to me.
Name: Debbie Maguire <magkdtrp@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-06-19 Comments:
I love reading about the history of Ireland.
Name: Aleta Donoghue Boehm <quincie_1999@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-06-17 Comments:
This has been such a wonderful and helpful site to browse through. The information provided has been extremely helpful and informative.
Name: Leonard Hagerty <LJHagerty2@aol.com> Date: 2003-06-17 Comments:
Very interesting - I know little about the Hagerty family and it seems that the people mentioned in this record went to the USA. My father was illegitimate - born 1902 in East London of Alice Hagerty. His father's surname was Nelson but he did nt marry my maternal grandmother. I know nothing aboutmy branch of the family - whatever was known was never spoken of by my father. NOw I am in my 72nd year I doubt taht I shall find out very much more - except I am a Hagerty!
Name: John Patrick Begley <Castleislandman@aol.com> Date: 2003-06-16 Comments:
I was born in Castleisland, County Kerry in 1956 I just love this site and showing it to my son Sean who is 13.God bless,Up Kerry and Up Ireland. Thank You Kindly.
Name: Breandßn Ó Cíobhßin <breandanoc@eircom.net> Date: 2003-06-15 Comments:
Congratulations on your progress.
Guím gach rath oraibh.
Name: Denise M. Sugrue <dmsugrue@aol.com> Date: 2003-06-08 Comments:
Thank you for your generous contribution to our Sugrue records. In the past I did extensive research in Ireland on Sugrues. I shall also compare notes with my records, so that we do not have duplicates.
Name: mary ellen murphy <irishmomma4@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-06-06 Comments:
very interesting!
Name: Kathryn Casey Calamita <jkcalami@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-06-04 Comments:
Thanks for the site.
Name: Mike Sheehan <ChosinFewNJ@aol.com> Date: 2003-06-02 Comments:
Hello from Wall NJ on the Atlantic Coast - from a
descendent of the Village of Finuge, County Kerry.
Name: Katie Lodes <notnefk@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-05-31 Comments:
Thank you for help in finding the address for St. Mary's in Dingle.
Name: E.N. Murphy <NineImaal@AOL.com> Date: 2003-05-31 Comments:
This is my second time visiting this site. Although I was born in October 1921 and attended school in Dublin until I was 14 years old and like lots of Irish Kids had to help the family eat two square meals a day. Reading the terrible brutality of the civil war in Kerry nearrly 70 years later turns my blood cold. Brother against brother is evil. God grant that those left behind have found some peace. I will return to read more of your wonderful articles. By the way as a litdtle kid i used to cheer for "Kingdom" oys at Croke park in the 1930`s. Good luck to you all.
Name: Eoin Murphy <NineImaal@AOL.com> Date: 2003-05-28 Comments:
Far away from the island I was born in during 1922 I had never fully understood the ravages of civil war until I read these articles. Somehow I never realized the hate and bloodshed that the rebellion of 1916 left behind.
To me the the 1944 invasion of France was the horror story of the 20th century but the killings were impersonal but 1923 in Kerry the killings were personal and bloody
God be with the survivors of both sides.
Name: William Hetherman <hawkman923@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-05-27 Comments:
My ggrandparents William & Mary (Murphy) Hetherman were married on 24 Feb. 1846 in Currow RC Church, County Kerry. Ire. They migrated to Boston. MA. between 1847/48. I'd love more info? Sincerely, Bill Hetherman Date 27 May, 2003
Name: Kevin Russell <karussell@chariot.net.au> Date: 2003-05-22 Comments:
I have just stumbled on this site and already it has cleared an enigma.
I would like to know much more about the site and how to drive it, I am certain that so many questions our family have are going to be answered
Name: R. Michael Histon <r.michaelhiston@adelphia.net> Date: 2003-05-21 Comments:
Enjoy any news about "The Kingdom" I just finished reading a very interesting book about Co. Kerry entitled "Tan, Terror and Troubles" the book was written by T. Ryle Dwyer who resides in Tralee. Anyone interested in the time period of 1913-23 might enjoy this very in-depth book.
Name: Bernard J Hannifin <BHann0467@aol.com> Date: 2003-05-17 Comments:
Very interesting site,We visited County Kerry 25 years ago. Beautiful countryside friendly people.
Name: Nuala Wilson <nuala_wilson@tiscali.co.uk> Date: 2003-05-17 Comments:
have just found your site will enjoy exploring it
Name: Martha Chrisman <chrismar@planetsos.com> Date: 2003-05-16 Comments:
I enjoyed my visit. Thanks
Name: martin.oconnell1 <martin.oconnel1@orange.net> Date: 2003-05-14 Comments:
i found the listing very useful, however so far i've not found anything apertaining so far concerning my family. I think i will have to stop been so lazy and do a little more positive research. nevertheless yor site has given me some encouragement and for that i thank you one and all. horrible weather in Bradford tonight. Yours Sincerely, Martin O'Connell. ex Tullamore residing in England many years. GOOD NIGHT
Name: Mattie Lennon <lennonaspect@iol.ie> Date: 2003-05-14 Comments:
I am looking for information on Denis Sweeney born at Tooreenmore, Knocknagoshel, Co. Kerry in 1873.
He married Mary Breen (daughter of Patrick and Margaret Breen) of Lahard, Ballymagelliot.
Name: Thomas Geismann <geismann@adelphia.net> Date: 2003-05-12 Comments:
My grandfather, Thomas Cosgrove, was born in Hartford, Cn. in the U.S.A. but his parents came from County Kerry. He was a Catholic, as were and are all the generations since. He married my grandmother, a Josephine Collins, and they lived their married life in Pittsfield, Il. He was born 8/23/53 (died 12/5/29). My wife and I, along with my sister are coming to Ireland in August and would like to do some research on our family forebearers, but don't really know where to start. Perhaps you can direct us. Regards and thank you, Tom Geismann
Name: Margaret Caluori <margaretcaluori@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: 2003-05-08 Comments:
When I was a child every summer holiday was spent in Kerry with my mother's family who lived near Ballyduff. My mum died 10 years ago so Kerry is no longer 'home' but I still love it!
Name: Terence Fitzgerald-Kuhl <tjefitzgerald@infonie.fr> Date: 2003-05-04 Comments:
Thank you for setting up this site. I am trying to find my roots and I hope you can help me.
Name: Theresa Snell <tss57@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-04-30 Comments:
Thanks for the site. Your explanation of province, county. barony, PLU, civil parish, & townland is the best!
Name: cynthia qualls <bobqualls3@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-04-30 Comments:
Hi my name is cindy and a friend of mine is looking for ancesters on John Lawrence Sullivan her name is Charlene King {sutton} we hope we can find something here she has been looking for about 20 years Thank You for letting us sign in to your guest book
Name: John J.Quaid <Athearover@Yahoo.Com> Date: 2003-04-30 Comments:
Fantastic sight, very much appreciated, although I hail from Athea, County Limerick, well it's almost County Kerry.
Name: karen smith <katojomi@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-04-26 Comments:
had some luck finding shea and moriarty families
Name: Fred Dennis <freddennis@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-04-26 Comments:
An excellent resource for checking family history.
Many thanks
Name: kim cummins nee bird mother Toomey <kclon59 @yahoo.co.uk> Date: 2003-04-26 Comments:
This site has given me some good leads to use to find out more about my mothers side, and I will be showing my mother in law as she is also from here.......thanks
Name: Deacon Jack Fenton <JFe3647706@aol.com> Date: 2003-04-26 Comments:
Waterlilly,I had been lollygagging on my family research project, and then someone gave me your site address,----how can I thank you not only for all the work you put in, but for giving me a jump start to get my body "in gear" again. Thanks Muchly!!!
Name: Thomas Michael Quirk <tquirk978@aol.com> Date: 2003-04-22 Comments:
The Quirks on this page are my relatives my
grandfather Thomas left in1858 at 16 yrs old
to come to America.I have visited Coomasaharn twice. I cannot describe the
emotion on my 1st visit it was like i had come
home.
Name: Kim Robbins <Doroki363@cs.com> Date: 2003-04-21 Comments:
great information
are there more pages similar to this one?
Name: sean cotter <sjcotter@optonline.net> Date: 2003-04-21 Comments:
i was born in knockbrack,knocknagoshel.i very much enjoyed reading the history of knocknagoshel and adjacent towns.thank you. sjc
Name: Russell Thorne <russellthorne@compuserve.com> Date: 2003-04-18 Comments:
Thanks for the tips and leads most helpful.
Name: Tom Colbert <Tcol733199@aol.com> Date: 2003-04-18 Comments:
Enjoyed your website very much. My mother was from
Monahan and my Dad from Waterford. One of my sons
is taking a tour of Ireland this coming summer.One of my daughters was a contestant in "The Rose of Tralee" in 1988 from Las Vegas, NV. Have a Great Day.
Name: Tom Byrnes <tommy655@aol.com> Date: 2003-04-14 Comments:
My grandmother, Julia O'Brien (Lynch) came from county Kerry. Thank you for having this site!
Name: Lloyd Roach <bubmisty2k71@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-04-12 Comments:
I have just began reviewing this web site, and "so far, so good"!
Name: dianne payne <paynedianne@yahoo.co.nz> Date: 2003-04-10 Comments:
Great site which is very helpfull for myself who lives in North Canterbury New Zealand finding info on ancesters who immigrated from Ireland.
Name: BOB BUCKLEY <rjkbucklee@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-04-06 Comments:
Thanks agaian for the unselfish assistance to some of the lost sheep. I am sitting in Hong Kong and getting reenergized at the prospect of pursuing research on the Buckley line.
BOB BUCKLEY
Name: Betty Bond Griffin <betyg@gwi.net> Date: 2003-04-05 Comments:
Great site, lots of info. You've done a really good job of making the info easy to find and read. Did not find my family, but had a good time looking. Thanks.
Name: thomas donahue <claretomdonahue@sprintmail.com> Date: 2003-04-04 Comments:
Hopeful of tracing a Patrick Donahue who emigrated to the USA during the famine years.
Name: Marcia Gail Grandall <mgrandall@centurytel.net> Date: 2003-04-03 Comments:
This is a wonderful site to have at your fingertips. Thank -you!
Marcia Grandall from Wisconsin, USA
Name: veronica <njveronica@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-03-31 Comments:
thanks very much for this link- I was able to track down a possible family link to McCrohans. This is a lovely website.
Name: Kilmoyley Person <r@eircom.net> Date: 2003-03-29 Comments:
Excellent Site.Well Done.
Name: Sinead Reidy <sineadreidy@eircom.met> Date: 2003-03-29 Comments:
So so proud to see such a beautiful description of our native home on the net top marks to all of you involved it captures in the finest quality all that Ballyheigue has to offer. It stands proud in the jungle of the internet but a gwm when stumbled across.
Name: Patrick J.Allen <pallenpm@aol.> Date: 2003-03-26 Comments:
found my grandparents and some other relatives.
Name: Linda A DaCova <gijoe23@worldnet.att.net> Date: 2003-03-24 Comments:
I love reading everything and learning about new
Web sights and suggestions on trying to find my
long lost family ties and hope someday to find
them and meet with them.
Linda, from Malden, Mass. USA
Name: Joan Kane <joan@cathain.com> Date: 2003-03-23 Comments:
Really enjoyed your Kerry site. My parent are both from Ventry Parish and I have been lucky enought to visit many times. Your map of Ventry parish brought back many memories of my Dad's stories about his friends, usually identified by their villages. It was great for me to be able ti identify where each of these villages are!
Name: Michael Harty <Mjharty@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-03-21 Comments:
It's great to see that someone has taken the time and effort to provide this information. I came across it quite by accident when I typed in my family name.
Keep up the good work.
Name: pamphylla <pamphyllamc@netscape.net> Date: 2003-03-20 Comments:
Thanks, this question was posed to me by a somewhat hostile brit, i now have a good start for research. (re fishing during the famine)
Name: Michael Moriarty <mkevmo@cox.net> Date: 2003-03-17 Comments:
Very Informative Site keep up the good work
Name: jennifer searle <jenny@aol.com> Date: 2003-03-16 Comments:
help find the mcelligott family
Name: steve stack <stvstack2@aol.com> Date: 2003-03-15 Comments:
interesting page & info.Thanks to those that keep it up.My forefather, I am told was Alexander Moore
from Belfast,born 9-1704.I am also told he faught
in our revolutionary war.Don't know when he came to the US,but he died in 1786.
Name: rosiehayes-hanafin <rosemaryhayes@optusnet.com.au> Date: 2003-03-08 Comments:
my grandfather,michael hanafin came from ballymacelligott to australia sometime in the 1880s,married grandmother ,mary carroll from nenagh whom he met here.He died in 1925,only 55 years and had eleven children,my mother being one.does anyone know hanafin who may be related
Name: T.K.O'Donnell <tkod30@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-03-08 Comments:
Very interesting : so far I have had only a cursory perusal; it appears to confirm/enhance aspects of family histories.
Name: Tamar <tamarlives@aol.com> Date: 2003-03-05 Comments:
I found your site whilst researching for a term paper I am writng. The site has been very helpful.
Thank you!
Name: Karen Trearchis <dktrearchis@attbi.com> Date: 2003-03-03 Comments:
My great grandmother was baptised in the Parish of Killiney(Castlegregory and Loghane) The Maritime History Archive helps to give me more inform.
Name: Kerry Shagene <kbs11@albion.edu> Date: 2003-03-02 Comments:
My counselor in high school always visited county kerry and told me it was the most beautiful place to visit in Ireland.
Name: Adrienne newton <adriennegarry@xtra.co.nz> Date: 2003-03-01 Comments:
Excellent site, Mary. Off to the library with film numbers and research queries. Very many thanks for a great site and a great list!! By far the best I belong to.
Name: M B Mulvihill <mbmulvihill@supanet.com> Date: 2003-03-01 Comments:
Starting to research my family origins in Kerry
Name: William Enright <omond@shaw.ca> Date: 2003-03-01 Comments:
Very intresting Our Branch of the Enright's came out in the 1790 to Canada.
Name: Jimmy O'Sullivan Darcy <jimmyosdarcy> Date: 2003-03-01 Comments:
Killarney man born and bred, learnt more about my hometown from your father's memories than from living here. I know the grandchildren of many of the people you speak of. My own people grew up in Market Lane - O'Sullivan Darcys (mostly respectable!). My grandfather had a forge in town and my father has told me many stories of the same time. The Killarney Lanes - My father always says "Times were harder then, but at least we weren't happy". He's a great storyteller, but not much of a man for sentiment! Thanking you sincerely, Jimmy O'Sullivan Darcy.
Name: selina goubert <selinagoubert@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-02-27 Comments:
i use to know an elderly couple that lived in dingle, in a little cottage on a bad bend of the road called parkers pen. They lived in guernsey in the channel islands for a long time.does any body know them, i would loved to get in touch with them or their family. I know that they had grand children the same age as me.
selinagoubert
age 20
Name: Jo Bennett <jommarch@aol.com> Date: 2003-02-23 Comments:
We took our first trip to Ireland last summer. County Kerry was the best place of all. I can't wait to come back. Jo
Name: DFDolsen <dfdolsen@concentic.net> Date: 2003-02-22 Comments:
These volumes have a "ton "of info regarding Kerry Thank you.
DFD
Name: WILLIAM D. OBRIEN <OBRNWLLM@AOL.COM> Date: 2003-02-21 Comments:
AWONDERFULL SITE,I AM GREATFULL TO ALL WHO CONTRIB.THANK -YOU SO MUCH
Name: Steve Bric <sbric@hiberniawool.com> Date: 2003-02-21 Comments:
Love the site.... I go to Ireland once a year, and am anxious to learn all I can about the Bric family (also BRICK at one point).
Name: Denis Patrick Collins <Kerrydream@aol.com> Date: 2003-02-19 Comments:
Good Luck and God Bless UP Kerry
Name: linda morrison <linda.morrison5@btopenworld.com> Date: 2003-02-16 Comments:
many thanks to this site. comming from an irish immigrant familiy who came to liverpool in the 1800s. i am currently being interviewed for a post in large immigrant detention centre. looking back and understanding what made my familiy leave their home, makes it easier to see why so many people still feel so dispossessed. i am sure that if i am offered the job understanding my history will help me to see clearly, others who still have that long road to travel.
Name: Joan o Shea <josk@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-02-15 Comments:
Killarney is the perfect place for a family outing. i enjoyed it thoroughly and am coming back next year.
Joan
Name: Kathleen Brosnan <kathleenbrosnan@yahoo.co.uk> Date: 2003-02-15 Comments:
I think that this site shows the essence of killarney. I absolutely love it, the kerry songs, stories...etc.
If you would have information on stone circles such as ( the seven sisters) in lissivigeen, i would greatly appreciate it as i am presently doing a project on it for University. Thank You!
Yours Sincerely
Kathleen Brosnan
Name: hiloroni miloison <hilary.ocunachain@oceanfree.net> Date: 2003-02-13 Comments:
My family and I are so looking forward to our upcoming first visit to Ireland in December and found your site very interesting. We can' t wait to explore what looks like a beautiful country
Name: Jacob O'Sullivan <punxsnotdead@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-02-11 Comments:
email me 4 info on da o'sullivans
Name: Janeth Brosnan Campbell <jacnrg@aol.com> Date: 2003-02-09 Comments:
Thank you so much for sharing our ancestral information online.
Name: Judy Jo (Hoar)Drake <mjdrake240@aol.com> Date: 2003-02-08 Comments:
I found a couple of things from that page that was interesting,the fact we have found that the family only used the same 8-10 names over and over again.... and we knew that there was apattern to it.. THanks for confirming it,a nd the confirmation of date mix up and name spelling changes.. Thank you..
Name: M B Mulvihill <mbmulvihill@supanet.com> Date: 2003-02-07 Comments:
Just found the site and think it will be useful to me
Name: Carole Lannom <jlannom@fuse.net> Date: 2003-02-07 Comments:
Excellent Irish website! Very user friendly. Lots of helpful links and on-line records to search for ancestors.
Oone of the best Irish websites. Thank you.
Carole Lannom
Name: joe darlington <joseph.darlington@btinternet.com> Date: 2003-02-05 Comments:
a very interesting and informative website.
best wishes,
joe.
Name: Peggy Geffinger <geff13@msn.com> Date: 2003-02-04 Comments:
Thanks for your help. I am researching my Callaghan relatives from the Aughill, Inch, Castle Island area. Any one with information going back to Denis Callaghan, a land owning farmer in the 1850's, who married twice and his second wife was named Mary (his children included Margaret and Timothy), please contact me.
Thanks Peggy Geffinger - Geff13@msn.com
Name: Eileen B. Kane <irish317clover@aol.com> Date: 2003-02-02 Comments:
I just signed on. I'm new at all this,thank you for the site,see you soon.
Name: Katherine Lynch Masters <Kittymas@attbi.com> Date: 2003-02-01 Comments:
Great information and an eye opener. Thank you very much for taking the time to research and make this available for all to read. I am looking for any info regarding my Great-Great Grandparents who emigrated in 1855 from Castleisland,County Kerry Their names are Jeremiah Lynch and Mary Horan.
Name: Francis W Griffin <fwgriffi@msn.com> Date: 2003-02-01 Comments:
Best research site ive ever seen. Great work by all involved. I Thank You
Name: Lorne R. Acton <lacton3@juno.com> Date: 2003-01-31 Comments:
Well writen and presented Mary
Name: Terry Eakin <teakin@chilli.net.au> Date: 2003-01-30 Comments:
What I was looking for was a list of townlands with the DED number as in the 1901 Townlands and Towns book (which I have)and the individual number for each townland as used in the 1901 Census throughout Ireland.
Do you know where I can find these individual numbers preferably on the Internet?
Regards
Terry Eakin
334 Burns Bay Road
Lane Cove 2066
New South Wales
Australia
Name: ann fitzgerald <annfitz2003eircom.net> Date: 2003-01-27 Comments:
interesting
Name: johnny maunsell <john.maunsell@ntlworld.com> Date: 2003-01-25 Comments:
We had a lovely time in ballyheige seeing family from lerrig and your web sight brings back many thoughts thanks!
Name: Kerry Eagar <eagarkb1@attbi.com> Date: 2003-01-22 Comments:
Thanks for your research.
Name: Theodore Charles Sweeney <tssentp@quixnet.net> Date: 2003-01-20 Comments:
I live in Winsted, Connecticut, USA. I have been looking for information on my Great Grandmother, who was from Castleisland, County Kerry. I've found some helpful information and will continue to use your site.
Thank You,
Ted
Name: arthur mcgrail <arthurjmcgrail@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-01-20 Comments:
Interssting My great father wa a renowned faction fighter with the black thorn stick. Older people related to me his skill with the stick even though he was a small slender man. T hechallenges would take place on the mountain top in co leitrim where the bordeing parishes met. they probably challenged each other and had some fun. Anyway Arthur McGreal was a champion but I am told they killled eachother in some of the big fights. No killings reported from the Leitrim (Ballinaglera FACTION) WHICH MY GANG WERE MEMBERS.
Name: desmond o'callaghan <pamarnol@senet.com.au> Date: 2003-01-19 Comments:
great help in narrowing search limits in family history
Name: Joan Walton <ddplantlady@vcu.org> Date: 2003-01-19 Comments:
Thank you for this site made available to researching our Irish roots.I wish Longford had such a site.Keep up the good work.
Thanks again,
Joan
Name: Patricia Ann Blackery <anniblackery@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-16 Comments:
An extensive overview of the suffering & hardship endured during the great famine. Many thanks for the valuable research I need for my novel.
Name: Dennis O'Connor Whitlow <oconnorkerry1212@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-15 Comments:
Your site may have given me some threads in which to trace
my family. Thanks bunches.
Slan go foille,
Donnacadh O'Concobhair
Name: Michael H. Sweet <msweet7496@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-13 Comments:
Great Job on the site. I found it very informative. My Wifes family (Mother and Father)came from The Killarny area, My Mother inlaw Joan (Healy) O'Rourke, Grew up in Old Bridge, Headford. My Father inlaw grew up in Currow Village, Castle Island. Joans Father (Paddy Healy) was a famous Irish Footballer who helped start the GAA. He was on the Dr. Croakes. Many Cousins are still following in his foot steps.....Thanks for the Memories.... Mike Sweet, Worcester Massachusetts.
Name: Maureen Weir Michalko Piasecki <cimabello@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-13 Comments:
In 1948 while visiting my grandmother, Mary Fitzgerald O'Connor,in Kilshanig I attended school in Fahamore. I recall my teacher to be Leo Flaherty.
I enjoyed looking over your Diary. I am currently researching 1909 - 1929 Maharees.
Name: John (Jack) Harvey Shea <sheacpa@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-12 Comments:
I am a grandson of David and Ellen Cahill of Tooreenablaha, Brosna. Son of Johanna Mary Cahill (1908-1953) emigrated to USA 1926.
Checking my obvious roots.
Appears very helpful.
Name: Brian Fitzgerald <72320.1164(-at-)compuserve.com> Date: 2003-01-12 Comments:
Brilliant site. I've known for years that my greatgrandfather, Thomas Fitzgerald, was born in Cappagh in the Cloughane DED. But when I found the 1901 and 1911 census here, it was only then that I knew that Cappagh consisted of only 14 houses! The simple picture of life that emerges from those bare facts of names and ages and occupations and number of children is magical. Please don't stop building -- this is a glimpse into another world.
Name: martin <ogham6@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-09 Comments:
brillant excellent very indepth site i have a book wrote by martinmcmahon which gave me a insigh to what it was like in the penal times. i am trying other sites for more information. i am trying 2 learn irish
ar fheabhas
slan.mairtin
Name: mick al modi mana der muir <kiricou@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-01-08 Comments:
greetings. your page was not only informative but well documented. the obvious challenge in research arises when trying to separate fact from fiction. while the task ahead is indeed far from easy, i belive our kin and the future generations will one day come to grasp and truly love our deadication to our culture.
thank you
ps who knows, maybe we should get in touch with matt damon and/or chuck norris....while steering clear of a hollywood production, an indie film/documentary wouldn't hurt......and if the ladies are learning, the children will always be loving.
Name: JOE COUNIHAN,JR <jpcounihanjr@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-08 Comments:
Thanks! Several years of info to look thru and found it in a few minutes on your site.Will be in Dublin next week in hopes of finding my great grandfathers town and/or parish. We are thinking Co. Kerry. Again thank, Joe
Name: John C. Conway <jconway9@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-06 Comments:
Terrific site for the introduction to Kerry and its fabulous geography. Have visited once years ago and intend to come back. Sections on history were very helpful, and I thank you for maintaining such a fine site.
Name: Marilyn Taylor Perno <davisbridge@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-05 Comments:
Thank you so much for the many happy hours I have spent on your web site...I have learned so much about my grandparents homeland.
Name: JOHN HEALEY <HEALEYATHARTLEY@AUSTARNET.COM.AU> Date: 2003-01-02 Comments:
MY GREAT GRANDFATHER TIMOTHY STEPHEN HEALEY WAS BORN IN LISTOWEL IN 1830.HE MIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA IN 1855. THE INFORMATION IS OF GREAT USE.
Name: Lynn Sullivan <surfingsullivans@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-01 Comments:
thank You for your work.
Name: Nancy McPherson <swedegrl52@aol> Date: 2002-12-31 Comments:
Searching for Ashe, Brosnan, Barrett
Name: Joe Kelsall <jkelsall@onetel.net.uk> Date: 2002-12-31 Comments:
Amendment tolast message.G'father was Jeremiah Moriarty who married Honora O'Donoghue from Glenflesk close to Killarney.
Name: Joe Kelsall <jkelsall@lineone.net.uk> Date: 2002-12-31 Comments:
Just good to find Ballynakilly and Droum referred to. Cannot find Droum on any map although I know where it is. Grandfather Jeremiah is from Droum and married my grandmother Honora Moriarty in Killarney where they lived in Flemings Lane.
Name: david belfield <david.belfield@ntlworld.com> Date: 2002-12-28 Comments:
hello
What an interesting and imformative site.
thanks very much.
Regard
Dave
Name: Enrico Cernuschi <Maguscamelio@libero.it> Date: 2002-12-28 Comments:
I was looking for news about Monsignor O'Flaherty and your site was quite the best. Up the Republic
Name: Ellen Framness <home.title@excel.net> Date: 2002-12-22 Comments:
Just surfing to find info about Heffernan relatives from Glenmore. May have found some. Thanks.
Name: Michael O'Connor <luckylouie_69@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-12-21 Comments:
Very nice site...I hope to learn a little about my roots..:)...and I love your wallpaper..:)
Michael O'Connor, PEI, Canada
Name: M.Thomas <m.thomas> Date: 2002-12-20 Comments:
This web page has been a great source of information for me!
Thank you so much!
Name: JOHN GRANVILLE <JACK250@WEBTV.NET> Date: 2002-12-20 Comments:
WAS IN DINGLE IN SUMMER 2001. SPOKE TO A MICHAEL GRANVILLE.NICE TO THINK I COME FROM SOMEWHERE!!!!
Name: Judiline Goldsmith(O'Connor) <jgoldsc608@rogers.com> Date: 2002-12-17 Comments:
....... I was facinated with your site. Thank you so very much for making this site ,and making it possible for people like me to read and acknowlede our ancestry. May happiness wealth and honesty find you all the days of your lives.
Judiline Goldsmith
Name: m.v.stack <maurice.v.stack@btopenworld.com> Date: 2002-12-17 Comments:
Int., on behalf of Pentagon enquirer, in Trant family,
Dingle peninsula(have found Trant clan forum elsewhere),
Name: maurice vincent stack <maurice.v.stack@btopenworld.com> Date: 2002-12-17 Comments:
From descendant of Edw Stack, Tralee merchant, husband of
Laura Fairlie(desc. of Scottish divine John Knox),1753-1820.
Interested in other Stack names - noted 17 in Clanmorice Barrony - and in Crottoe manor house(have picture) completed
around Census time, but occup. by Cromwellian forces shortly after..Many thanks to providers of this fine site!
Name: Richard Sullivan <rgspops@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-12-15 Comments:
Great site. Now if I can only find my way.
Name: Tim and Brianna Clifford <tclif@surfbvi.com> Date: 2002-12-13 Comments:
As we move into the Kenmare area, and have so very many friends there, I'll continue to collect information of the research I'm doing for a book on the very early history of Neidin! Thank you for your efforts for us!
Name: Maurice J. Walsh <maury_j_walsh@comerica.com> Date: 2002-12-10 Comments:
My grandfather, Maurice J. Walsh, came from County Down, I am told, in the 1850's. He lived with his brother in NYC through his high school years. He had four children, William Henry, Maurice James, John Robert, and May Walsh(Durkin). I am the son of William Henry Walsh. and the third in a "broken line" of Maurice J. Walsh. I don't know about my ancesters in Ireland, and I don't think that I'm related in any way to the famous writer, Maurice Walsh, of Ballydonoghue, Lisselton, Kerry (The Quiet Man is one of my faverote movies, but who doesn't like John Wayne and the other cast members.)
All the best to you folks in Ireland and I hope to visit that area one day. I was in Belfast (1963) during my Navy days, but only for one day.
Maurice J. Walsh
1622 Prestwick Ave.
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236
Name: Annette Cosgrove-Livas <jjlivas@ozemail.com.au> Date: 2002-12-02 Comments:
Truly moving and inspiring. I also am of Irish (Limmerick) decent and feel a strong connection to Ireland and it's people. Great site and well done.
regards
annette
Name: Kathleen Kinney <snowleopard@alaska.net> Date: 2002-11-29 Comments:
Greetings,
I read the letter from your president, "Cherishing the Irish Diaspora," with tears streaming down my face. Even now as I write I am weeping. I simply had no idea we were remembered, much less included in, seen as a part of you. Cherished.
It has been generations since my family left. They brought several strands of Ireland in their coming, Sammons, Kinneys, more. The story goes that I had an ancestor with a price on his head for the crime of teaching his fellow Irish to read. He made it on to a ship that was bound for Canada, and was almost safely away, but the ship was boarded by redcoats. They said they were there looking for Andrew Kinney. One by one, men stood, and said, "I am Andrew Kinney," until the soldiers knew they were facing down more than they could handle, and they left, and he was away to Canada, and thence to the United States.
That was generations ago, yet Ireland calls to me as if I had left it myself. I've talked to others who feel this way. It's a physical longing, an underlying awareness, a restlessness, music playing just out of hearing. It is a keening, and does not quiet.
The music, the names, the religion, the sense of self, have been passed down from one to the next. When I typed my name in the box above for this guestbook, I felt a unfamiliar leap of pride, a sense of identity, a spark of knowing that my name might speak to someone reading this, that they will recognize the name, and know me and mine. I see this sense of Irishness in my own daughter, who at the age of 11, asks me if we can go to Ireland, in my 8 year old son, who, when asked what kind of music he likes, replied "Celtic." He said to me recently, "I don't think there's anyone in this town who can teach me to play a bodhran."
Yesterday, we celebrated the holiday of Thanksgiving, and before the meal, we prayed, and then I told my children the story of the Famine, of people eating grass, of neighbors too weak to dig graves, pushing huts in on families to serve as a resting place. I sang `Kilkelly' for them, and my daughter pointed out that if the man's mother died quickly, she didn't starve--poignant insight into that line, `you don't have to worry.'
I told them this so they would understand the abundance that was spread before them was not bought cheaply, but with life and effort and pain by those that went before. Then I offered up a toast. I lifted my cup to those who left, to those who struggled, to those who made our lives possible.
My daughter responded with a toast to those who stayed behind, those who let the others go, who made leaving possible.
We remember you. Oh, we remember. It's as if the memory, the grief and love are stamped in our very cells. But only in reading this, did I know for the first time, that we are acknowledged, remembered, that a light burns in the window for us.
Thank you.
Kathleen Kinney, descended of Andrew
Name: Kevin M. McKinney <kmckinne@maine.rr.com> Date: 2002-11-28 Comments:
Enjoy your sight keep it Happening!!!!
Name: Donna (Parker) Little <pklittles@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-11-27 Comments:
My sister told me that our family mirgrated from Ireland and I was wondering if you had any family that might have settle in Mississippi or Texas. My great grandpa is William Woodrow Parker. I do not known his parents name though, cause my grandpa, Herschell can not remember all that well except that our family is from Ireland. Thanks, Donna Little
Name: Margaret Carroll <margaret.carroll@xtra.co.nz> Date: 2002-11-22 Comments:
Looking for family of Patrick and Margaret Delaney had a daughter Ellen and Johanna. From Tralee. kerry. Wonderful site with heaps to look at .Keep up the good work.Bye from New Zealand.
Name: Mick Talbot <mike.talbot@whsmithnet.co.uk> Date: 2002-11-22 Comments:
Thank you. Found a reference to my Great-Great Grandfather James Talbot (Born 1817) and his brothers having land at Annagh.
Name: jo o'connor-deveraux <jomarie41@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-11-21 Comments:
very nice site ,just wih I knew how to utilze it!
Name: Thomas D. O'Rourke <toro511614@aol.com> Date: 2002-11-18 Comments:
I would like to thank you and Mr. John Willoughby for the records you have provided to all of us at this site in finding our ancestors. Mr. Willoughby's "Marriage Records in Dingle 1864-1870" has cracked open a wellspring of information for me especially. I have found my great-grandfather and great-gradmother's wedding date of marriage; they were from Liosdargan, Co. Kerry. In addition to this, I also found the dates of two of my great-uncles!!
I had estimated these dates previously and now will use this information to confirm it. As far as I am concerned, this is primary information. I have seen some of my family's records at St Mary's church in Dingle and I know that these records are accurate.
Go raibh mile maith agaibh agus nar laga Dia bhur lamh!!
Is mis le meas
Tomas O'Rourke
Name: amber betenson <bambi_betenson@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-11-14 Comments:
I'm doing a project on ireland and one of the questions that was asked is, where would I like to build my vacation home? could I please get some good reasons why living in kerry ireland would be better the living in another place like cork.
Name: Joe(mahoney)Allen <hd.xlh@verizon.net> Date: 2002-11-14 Comments:
Very nicly put together: how does someone get all these map!
THANK YOU!
JOE
Name: KERRY KERSLAKE <kerrberr13@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-11-14 Comments:
I thought the sight was very interesting.
Name: Mary Jane Bohme <twotone@cyberriver.net> Date: 2002-11-14 Comments:
I enjoyed this sight very much.
Name: louise bunworth <www.hotmail.com> Date: 2002-11-13 Comments:
in the list there is a question mark after the name charles bunwortt , the correct spelling is bunworth
Name: Tadhg Moynihan <tadhgmoynihan@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-11-12 Comments:
As I came from Ballydaly I found this interesting. Ballydaly as a Townland is older than I origionally had taught.
Name: Thomas V. Concagh C.M. <concght@stjohns.edu> Date: 2002-11-12 Comments:
Excellent. As a professor of History I found the story of Mon. Hugh O'Flaherty most interesting.
Name: Maurice Stack, <maurice.v.stack@btopenworld.com> Date: 2002-11-12 Comments:
Many thanks Maggie & Adrian - but how to print RHS of Map?
Name: Maurice Stack of BH21 1YD, U.K. <maurice.v.stack@btopenworld.com> Date: 2002-11-12 Comments:
Many thanks Rod O'Connor - found a Cromwellian planting(?) Henry Ponsonby, at Crottoe, Kilfloine Parrish, Clanmorice.
Stack family would have been supplanted.
Name: Maurice Stack, <maurice.v.stack@btopenworld.com> Date: 2002-11-12 Comments:
Many thanks Maggie & Adrian - but how to print RHS of Map?
Name: Eileen Dooher <edooher@aol.com> Date: 2002-11-11 Comments:
Thank you for creating this resource. I am travelling to Ireland next week to find information about my grandmother and your site was very helpful.
Name: Rosemary MacLean <romac99@optushome.com.au> Date: 2002-11-11 Comments:
Thank you. It was very helpful to see such a long list of Breens.
Name: Declan Flynn <sexy_swede04@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-11-10 Comments:
But this they knew and knew it well,they would not die in vain, there blood would save our country's cause and give her life again.
Name: Larry De Groot <larrydg5@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-11-10 Comments:
My great grandmother, Catherine Naelon, was born in or near Listowel in 1833.
Name: Margaret <mmgrvr@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-11-08 Comments:
I really enjoyed your site. I found some names that I think and hope might be somehow related. It was fun looking at maps and pictures. I felt kind of bad for the people that were in the pictures of evictions and it made me mad to think that a house would be burned down just to make someone move out. I found this site very informative and again a lot of fun.
Name: helen reed <reed123@ bigpond.com.au> Date: 2002-11-08 Comments:
a most informative site- Iam researching my Galbraith family - who had a daughter Ellen about 1831 in kerry. I am most interested in learning about the potato famine and irish history.
Name: Anne Moriarty <annesemail@eircom.net> Date: 2002-11-06 Comments:
Can not believe my luck in finding this site-fascinating-the hours simply spin by as I discover more and more about my ancestors - Rath De ar an obair - lean leis
Name: John Dean Larkin <tfarmerie@westpa.net> Date: 2002-11-02 Comments:
Have great hopes from this source
Name: Michael Leane <mleane2@eircom.net> Date: 2002-10-29 Comments:
I find this site a great source of information A REAL FIND
THANK YOU
Name: mary mccamphill <mesmac485@aol.com> Date: 2002-10-22 Comments:
I need to get a hold of a birth certificate of my mother who was born in Castelisland, Knights Mtn. knocknagoshal County Kerry,Ireland. If you know where I can obtain this record please write back. She is 96 yrs old and needs this for a nursing home.
Name: Michael, C , Jackson <jacksoncafc@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-10-22 Comments:
A very Interesting insight to the history of Glenbeigh
Family on my mothers side have lived there for many years.
thank you. m.c. Jackson.
Name: Jack Sullivan <jhsphoto@aol.com> Date: 2002-10-21 Comments:
This is a fabulous website for anyone seeking information of their Irish ancesteral family from beautiful County Kerry!! My father's parents (O'Sullivan & O'Connor) were both from West Kerry and migrated to Holyoke,MA in the 1880's.However my father really upset his Irish family by marrying my mother, an Italian immigrant!! Only in America!!
Name: Margaret Carroll <margaret.carroll@xtra.co.nz> Date: 2002-10-21 Comments:
Thank you for a wonderful site with so much information .My great grandmother came from this area and I think I may have found her father. Which is wonderful as I have so little to go on .Thanks again. Margaret Carroll Keep up the good work.
Name: Christina Joyce <chrissie@joyces.net> Date: 2002-10-19 Comments:
Am just starting my quest for family history. Thanks for all this good information on County Kerry.
Name: Robert Clary <carmody@netusa1.net> Date: 2002-10-17 Comments:
My family,Carmody, is from Ballylongford.