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Celtic Damsel
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Hi RorY T , well your trip took me to what must be one of the prettiest spots in Kildare ! I was told the Church at a little village called Narragmore was the place to find out about burials for your ancestors based on where they lived, I had emailed the Reverend but hadn't received a reply so I rang the number on the Church Gates (which were closed when I arrived) and spoke to him, he said he was on holiday and would check the records for me but suggested I opened the gates and drive up as the cemetery is around the church. I had to climb over a wall in my skirt so I hope no one was looking apart from the Cows as I must have been quite a sight !! 
It is a spectacular view from the Church as it is at the top of a very long driveway and up a hill, the view is down the valley and over to the Wicklow mountains in the distance quite breathtaking !!
I checked all of the readable Gravestones for your Talbots ( bearing in mind any other spelling thereof also ) but they are not mentioned there on any of the stones.
However as always there are also a lot of totally unreadable stones so now we wait to see what the Reverend Delamere comes up with !! If there's anything I will let you know and go back and get a photo of the actual grave if you want, in the meantime I have some shots of the Church, Cemetery and environs if you would like to get a feel for where they lived send me a mail addy on a personal message and I will forward them to you in the meantime keep the fingers crossed , I also think you could contact the COI Library atlibrary@ireland.anglican.org as you have the address and years of Death so they will be able to tell you exactly where they are buried, if not at this cemetery, let me know if you get anything that way...Regards Damsel
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Celtic Damsel
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No Problem at all John hope you get all the information you need and if I can be of any further help just ask. Hope my search goes well over there in the Uk I'm also unfortunate in that my grandfather was born in Wales and left us very little informaion here in ireland and my paternal grandmother was also born there in Derby and we have very little info on her either yet, so hopefully something will give soon on both, again good luck told you the library were very good, regards Damsel
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geney
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Hi Celtic Damsel
I am trying to find if Nury is in Kildare or has the Census spelt it wrong?
If the right area I might be able to trace my gt Grandfather and some more of the family if it is right.
Best wishes
Geney
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Celtic Damsel
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the village your looking for is "Nurney", its not too far from me can you give me more details and I will help if I can , regards Damsel
NURNEY: A small village with an interesting pub, a church and ancient stone cross. Nearby at Clonmelsh cemetery Walt Disney's ancestors are buried
http://www.kildare.ie/heritage/lewis-topographical-dictionary/nurney2.asp
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geney
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Hi Celtic Damsel
Thanks for the website to view! The reason I had emailed to ask, was there ever a place named Nury, Ireland because that was on my Gt Grandfathers Census information, but for the rest of the family where they were born, they wrote Ireland and that was hard trying to find their place of birth. I had just found Gt Grandfathers details and wondered if the place was put down wrong or there was a place Nury, but they changed it to Nurney.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.
Geney
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jud72
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Hi again Damsel,
Am still trying to gather info on Tankardstown, and have found a reference to a graveyard in Barrowhouse which is actually in the Civil Parish of Tankardstown, Co. Laois. I guess that it is just across the border from the Tankardstown of Kildare and is contained in the Roman Catholic Parish of Athy. Are you familiar with this graveyard? Is it likely to contain early 1800 headstones? Thanks.
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Celtic Damsel
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Hi you still dont say if your ancestors were RC or COI Jud, Barrowhouse is not too far from me and as most villages in Ireland have a cemetry I assume that Barrowhouse does.
If your Corrigans were COI then you can contact the RCB Libary in Dublin if you want to do a search for them giving them whatever information you have for them and the area. I will drive up to Barrowhouse for you when I get a chance and check it out for you and see if there is a cemetry, but Ardshull Moate is nowhere near barrowhouse either , its out on the Dublin rd in the opposite direction , Barrowhouse is a turn off the old carlow road, anyhows i'll have a look for you, regards Damsel
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jud72
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Hi Damsel,
I would be hugely grateful if you could check out Barrowhouse. There may well be no link with Ardscull at all - but the family were almost definitely from the parish of Athy. The names in the parish registor have led me to believe that there is a very good chance that they were from Tankardstown. The family were Catholics. My branch of the Corrigans were evicted in the early 1800's but there may have been others who remained.
Thank you so much for your help.
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Celtic Damsel
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Ok I will drive up to barrowhouse in the next few hours its not that far and see if there is a Catholic cemetry there for you, regards Damsel
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Celtic Damsel
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Hi Jud, I posted a reply to you but it seems to have dissapeared into cyber space !! forgive if it appears and this is a repeat of the info it contained. I went to Barrowhouse for you this afternoon. There is a Catholic church there built in and around 1834, it has a cemetery around it , its classed as the parish of St Michaels so the records for the burials will be held at the church of St Michaels here in Athy Town ( if you needa phone number for them let me know) or at the national Library in Dublin I would assume but you can check that on their website, http://www.nli.ie/.
The Stones that were readable there date from the time the church was built onwards but of course there may be burials on the records not marked by stones?
To further excite you and complicate the search no doubt ! I discovered there is an old Church ruin and quite a large cemetery attached to it at Tankardstown, I could not access it due to the fact that it is now on Farmland owned by the Kinsella family, it remains public property however so he has to allow access to it but when I called to his farmhouse he was not at home , possibly in the fields as its harvest time and it was a beautiful day today,
I was told by a local that there are still occasionally burials there by local families who own plots, and that there are Crypts there as well as graves and that the burials stated there long before the Church at Barrowhouse.
Tankardstown while fairly close to Athy is actually in Co Laois, and therfore I would imagine the records for it to be in the nearest church in Laois to it which would be the church at Kileen Village where there is also another cemetery of course !!
I would think though that the register for burials there would also be at the National Library but a call to the church here in Athy I would imagine would shed some light on that, I have photos of the Church at Barrowhouse if you would like to have them in case it ties into your search you could pm me an email addy and I will pass them on, hope I have helped a little let me know if I can help in any other way and good luck with your search, regards Damsel
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jud72
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Thank you so, so much for doing that, Damsel. I am very gratefull!
The graveyard in Tankardstown sounds very promising. There's a chance that I will be able to get to Ireland early in the New Year, so will try to find it then. I haven't been able to find it on a map yet however. I am familiar with the road that leads from Athy to Ballylinan. Am I right in thinking that it is close to this road?
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Celtic Damsel
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I am trying to loacate the whereabouts of the record for Tankardstown for you at he mo Jud it is first left after the Tegral factory at the end of the town signposted " the Bleach", the road goes out to Barrowhouse, Tankardstown, Kileen and eventually on to Carlow the records for the Barrowhouse Cemetry are with the guy below according to the Laois County website but no sign of the Tankardstown but I am following a few leads and will let you know if I get the wherabouts in the meantime if you want the shots of the Barrowhouse Church and cemetry send me a PM with an email addy, Regards Damsel
Patrick Kelly
Carlow Road
Ballylinan
059 8625160
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nice avatar damsel!!
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Owens,William & Bridget nee connolly ( a.k.a. sarah ann.Mary) children William b. 1875,John b1885,Thomas b.1878,Elizabeth b.?.John born in or near st peters parish.family may have welsh connections.will junior married 1896.Four other children born but died before 1911. Mooney,McGrath,Owens,Dublin. Connolly,Dublin Kavanagh,Liverpool,Smyth, O'Brien.Dublin. Coates/Kelly,midlands & Dublin . Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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