KILRUSH & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY....... SUMMER OUTING: BIRR CASTLE

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  Sunday, 30 June 2019 from 12:00-16:00 UTC+01 4 days from now · 11–17°C Rain Showers

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Contact us at KilrushHistoricalSociety@gmail.com

Instead of our usual lecture on the last Tuesday of the month, our June event is a summer outing to Birr Castle. This trip will take place on Sunday June 30th 2019. Noon start at the castle, pay and display car park located opposite the castle gates. Please organise your own transport to the castle.

The castle and estate at Birr have been owned by the Parsons family for almost 400 years. In this time, Birr Castle Demesne has seen a host of scientific and technological achievement, much of which has changed the world.

A main feature on the grounds of the castle is the "Great Telescope" of the third Earl of Rosse, an astronomical telescope with a 183-cm reflector. It was completed in 1845 and was used for several decades before the last observations were made in the first years of the 20th century.

Admission is €15 to the castle, science centre and grounds. Places are limited so please e-mail kilrushhistoricalsociety@gmail.com with the subject line "Birr Castle booking" to let us know how many people will be coming and to indicate whether you will be driving (approx. 2 hours each way from Kilrush) or looking for transport.

The Society AGM which normally precedes the last lecture before the summer has been deferred to the evening of our September lecture.

NEW RECORDS FOR COUNTY CORK

New records for County Cork We are delighted to announce that Mallow Heritage Centre have added 1295 records to their database at www.corknortheast.rootsireland.ie. These records cover marriages for the Roman Catholic parishes of Doneraile (1899-1922); Killavullen (1895-1922); Cloyne (1895-1922) and civil records for Kilshannig (1895-1906).  For more details, please click this link: http://www.rootsireland.ie/2019/06/new-cork-records-added/ For a full list of sources for Co Cork (North and East), please click here  To search these records, go to corknortheast.rootsireland.ie. Login and Subscribeif required. Yours Sincerely rootsireland.ie Brought to you by the Irish Family History Foundation

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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OPEN NIGHT.. KILRUSH AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY 30 April 2019

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  Tuesday, 30 April 2019 from 19:30-22:30 UTC+01

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  Our April event will be an open evening to launch the Terret Lodge and Kilrush WWI Memorial projects. This will be an opportunity to update society members and the general public on the society's recent activities, including in particular the conservation of the Terret Lodge and its conversion to a genealogy and exhibition space, which is being funded by LEADER, the Heritage Council and Clare County Co
  
  
  Kilrush and District Historical Society
  
  
  Contact us at KilrushHistoricalSociety@gmail.com

THE GLYNNS OF KILRUSH, CO CLARE 1811-1940.. Paul O'Brien

The book is available at a number of outlets, including

http://tinyurl.com/yy867q9o

or

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glynn-family-Kilrush-Clare-1811-1940/dp/1846827760/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=glynns+kilrush&qid=1553690456&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spell+

and here..

https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2019/the-glynns-of-kilrush-county-clare/

 and all book stores in Ireland.

To quote from the author, Paul O'Brien...

"It's fitting that where the Glynn family established their business 208 years ago, 

is where the book launch will also be held..

in the same premises."