Tag: DR. MC GRATH
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Connolly Margaret, Barnigue, Carrickerry, Co. Limerick, By George Langan.
Connolly Margaret nee Culhane, Barnigue, Carrickerry died on Feb 5th 1936 aged 96 years. Her great-granddaughter Una Mangan nee Barry, (who is still hale and heart today, June 26th, 2024), left us with an account on the hardship of the famine times and of the many unscrupulous landlords of that time and there afterwards. Much of the…
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WILLIAM DANAHER. (Liam O’Danchair) By George Langan.
We were left with the following account on the Danaher family from Colm Danaher, son of master William. ‘In the middle of the 17th century, two brothers Maurice & Philip Danaher left their home in North Tipperary. They were escaping the landlord Brodel’s persecution…a Cromwellion officer who was rounding up hundreds of young people to be dispatched to the West…