KDHS LECTURE: THE PLACENAMES OF WEST CLARE Tues 28 May 2019

• Tuesday, 28 May 2019 from  20:00-21:00 UTC+01             Next Week · 13–15°C Light Rain   Teach Ceoil, Kilrush, Co. Clare

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Risteard (Dick) UaCroinin, Architectural Conservation Officer and County Archaeologist will talk on the Placenames of West Clare with reference to the origins, translations, value and recording of our townlands and fieldnames over the past millennium. Dick has also served as chairman of the Clare Placenames Committee for the past decade. There are over 51,000 townlands in the Republic of Ireland and each one is named. KDHS lectures are free to members, EUR5 for non-members, payable on the night only. New members are welcome. The annual membership fee (July-June) is EUR20. For new members joining now, their first year's membership will run to June 2020.

       Kilrush and District Historical Society

      Contact us at KilrushHistoricalSociety@gmail.com

REMINDER--- CRS -Thurs. 8pm 16th May- BROADFORD PARISH: RURAL LIFE IN 19TH CENTURY

Final Clare Roots Meeting of the Season

PRESENTATION

Broadford Parish: 

 Life in a Rural County Clare Parish in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.

Speaker: Pat O’Brien

                                 

8 pm Thursday 16th May 2019 

Maguire Suite

Old Ground Hotel, Ennis

Pat O’Brien will outline the history of his native parish of Broadford, for many years. Pat studied in NUI Galway and Mary Immaculate Training College. He taught for a period of 35 years in Kilkishen National School. He is currently working for his wife Caroline in her bookshop in Limerick City. Pat received a Masters in Local History from the University of Limerick. He has written articles and lectured on various aspects of local history, including to the UL Masters of Local History course. He is currently working on a book on Broadford Parish during the most eventful period 1800 to 1850. In 1841, Broadford Parish had a population in excess of 8,000 people. This is a study of the lives of the ordinary people of the time.
Topics to be covered: wells (holy and mineral), folklore, food, fire, priests, turf, schools (hedge and national), postal service, traditional cures, housing, farming, marriage, hurling, role of women, clothes, Irish language, etc.  

FINAL REMINDER

Membership Fee of €20 for 2018/2019 season is overdue for anyone who has not paid; you can pay on the night of the Clare Roots Meeting at the door to our Treasurer, Dolores

OR

pay on-line thru PayPal using the 'Donate Button' on the Home Page of the Clare Roots Society website (http://www.clareroots.org/).

Larry Parks
Secretary,
Clare Roots Society

IGP ARCHIVES APRIL 2019 UPDATES

GENERAL IRELAND, Genealogy Archives - Miscellaneous
Owners of Cars and Cycles -1914
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/countrywide/misc.htm

DONEGAL, Genealogy Archives - Headstones
St. Eunan's Cathedral (CoI), Letterkenny
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/donegal/photos/tombstones/markers.htm

DUBLIN, Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Mt Jerome Cemetey - Part 217-219
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/mt-jerome-ndx5.htm

MAYO, Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Carracaslte, St. James R.C. Church Graveyard (Additional)
Claremorris, Tulrahan Cemetery
Cong (CoI) Graveyard
Neale Cemetery, Cong
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/mayo/photos/tombstones/markers.htm

ROSCOMMON, Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Lisacul Cemetery
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/roscommon/photos/tombstones/markers.htm

Christina
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/
https://www.facebook.com/IrelandGenealogyProjects
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