Tag: KNIGHT OF GLIN
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GLIN ITEMS, PAST & PRESENT, CLIPPINGS FROM NEWSPAPERS etc IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER… By George Langan.
Ballyguiltenane Primary School girls football team which qualified to meet Carrickerry in the West Primary Schools Final. Photo, no names. W/O Nov 27th, 1996. Photo with names in Athea Parish News Nov 30th, 1996 after winning the final. Ballyguiltenane/Glin Primary School Girls U12 County Champions 1997 Barrett Declan from either Glin or Athea. Weekly Observer…
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SEAN BAN AERACH O’FLANAGAIN By George Langan.
O’Flanagain Sean Ban Aerach, (merry white haired John),….Sean was a poet, versifier and a piper who was a native of Tulla, Co. Clare, spent much of his time around Glin as tutor to the children of the Knight, Thomas Fitzgerald. Buried in the same grave in Kilfergus as that of my ancestor, Tom (Captain Steele)…
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SEAN O’LONGAIN By George Langan.
Sean O Longain. Circa 1771, thirty years after Michael Mac Peadair had left Glin, we find his brother Sean acting as agent for the Knight, Thomas Fitzgerald. It appears that sometime after Michael had departed for Cork, Sean left his home in Ballydonoghue and came to live in Glenagragra. He got married to Ellen Culhane…