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Saturday, 13 May 2017

CLARE ROOTS SPREAD FAR AND WIDE... FROM CO CLARE TO CLARE VALLEY...






Courtesy of the Irish Times, 13 May 2017.. 
Thanks to Eric Shaw of Clare Roots Society





To make this easier to read, I have copied it in three sections.

EDWARD GLEESON
'King of Clare' 
and master of Australian wine.



Edward Gleeson... 
born near Six-Mile-Bridge in 1803.
...sailed from Calcutta on the Emerald Isle 1838
Died in 1870, buried in the cemetery of the Anglican Church, 
for which he laid the foundation stone in 1851.