LANGAN'S HISTORICAL A-Z, INDEX & DIARY BY George Langan

Tag: NEWCASTLE WEST

  • Connolly Margaret, Barnigue, Carrickerry, Co. Limerick, By George Langan.

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    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…

  • Michael Kiely, Toureendonnell, Athea, born circa 1863, By George Langan.

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    On Feb 16th, 1901 at the church of St. Michael, Limerick city, Michael Kiely aged 38 years, a farmer, son of John Kiely, & Bridget Connell, farmer, married Ellen (Ellie) Moore, daughter of Thomas Moore, farmer of Ballinloughane, Newcastle West, the witnesses being Patrick O’Connell, Hazelfield, Borrigone and Katie Moore, Knockanagun, Carrickerry. Patrick O’Connell more than likely was Michael  Kiely’s uncle. On Dec 24th, 1904, ten days after giving birth to…

  • WILLIAM DANAHER. (Liam O’Danchair) By George Langan.

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    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…