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In 1905 my grandparents Sarah Anne Byrne and Moses Hatton were married in the Roman Catholic Church in Barendarrig. In total they had ten children; the first six had their place of birth returned as Kilnamanaghmore Co Wicklow.
The 1911 Census shows Sarah Anne and Moses Hatt E n living with their first three children including my mother Sarah then aged 2 at House No 3 Kilnamanagh More Glenealy Wicklow.
Any help in locating the exact area this house might be or have been would be really appreciated as I have been down in the Glenealy area a number of times now since August without success.
Many Thanks,
 John.   

I only became interested in my Family Tree when the 1911 Census came on line and I discovered that my Great Grandparents, James Comiskey and Mary Anne Merryman were both still alive and living at Valetta Avenue Kingstown on the night.
Their return also showed that they had ten children all of whom were still alive.
My first task was to locate those ten children. I quickly discovered through Internet searches that, at least three others more than twenty years ago had already done Trojan work in this regard including a One Name Study which went back five generations.
For some reason all three returned only nine children merging Mary and Anna Maria, both of whom are shown at the Valetta Avenue address, Mary as a single girl and Anna Maria Cavanagh (mis-transcribed) as a married woman with her husband Francis Kavanagh and two children Joseph and Mary.
Before the 1901 Census came on line I accessed it through the Dun Laoghaire Library and again both Mary and Anna Maria, as a single girl, were returned from the Valetta address
Mary remained single and I was able to trace her through electoral registers until her death in 1968 when she was interred in the family grave with her parents and eldest sister Elizabeth who also did not marry.

The One Name Study lists the following for Mary:
D O B 13th July 1873 Confirmed as D O B for Anna Maria as per Familysearch
Marriage 25th February 1904 St. Michael's Kingstown to Francis Kavanagh but Anna Maria is shown as the wife of Francis Kavanagh on the 1911 Census, they being married seven years and have two children Joseph (6) Born Dublin City and Mary (1) Born Co Dublin.
D O D 2nd October 1968 which is the date on the headstone for Mary in Deansgrange.
The O N S does not reference Anna Maria at all; the other two do but return her as     Mary /Anna Maria with all the above dates.
I think the problem for the earlier researchers was caused by there being no apparent birth record for Mary as oral history had my G/Grandparents and their first child John (1867) migrating down the west of the County from Lucan and cutting across through Dundrum where my Grandfather Michael was Christened (1868), through Rathfarnham etc before arriving in Glasthule where their third child Elizabeth was Christened in 1870 so any search for  children would have been out in the 'county' but I have found a birth on Irishgenealogy and Familysearch for a Mary / Female born in 1869 to James Comiskey and Mary Anne Merriman (returned as MerriGan on the Church records but both the sponsors were MerriMan) Their address was returned as Cumberland Street which is City centre
I would really appreciate any help or advice on this as it is one of those walls that just wont come down.
Many Thanks,
John       

The story by Amz of the tragic death of his Grandfather who was gored by a bull prompts the following:
I recently turned my attentions to my mother’s side of the family , she lived at The Meetings Avoca and a visit there last weekend stirred many old memories. My Grandfather died in 1949, the year after I was born and my Grandmother passed away in 1954, so my visits after that date were few and far between,, although my older siblings remember long Summer holidays down there with my Grandparents.
There were ten children born to Sarah Anne and Moses Hatton, five boys and five girls. All the girls left home, three, including my mother, came to live in Dun Laoghaire and the two younger girls went to England and served in some capacity during WW11, all five married.  The boys stayed local and all but one married and three of them worked in the Mines.
A visit to Castlemacadam Cemetery, which contains the graves of those who stayed on, filled in a lot of the details that I needed. One headstone in particular caught my attention as it was erected to the memory of my uncle Moses by the workers of Avoca Mines.   I was three at the time of his death and although I knew he had died tragically I was not aware of the details. In the hope of finding out more I paid a subscription to the Irish newspaper archives and within seconds had found details of the tragedy.   
On the 5th of  February 1952 Moses was working the night shift and he and three others were returning to the surface for a mid shift break when catastrophe struck. The mine was 900 feet deep; the lift system used for bringing the workers to and from the workface consisted of two skips which were connected by a wire rope to a mechanically operated revolving drum or wheel. Apparently the system allowed for one skip to ascend as the other descended, no doubt passing each other on countless occasions in the pitch darkness over the years without incident. This particular night, unknown to the operator, the descending skip became snarled on some staging, the rope continued to unwind as the ascending skip continued to climb. Normally the rope would be held taut by the counter balance action but this time, fixed prematurely at one point with the wheel still engaged, it encroached into the space of the ascending skip.  As it and the lift containing the four miners passed it snagged my uncle and dragged him from the skip and he plunged 150 feet to his death.
Moses was 35 years old when he died; he left a widow and two young children.

I came across this photo in the family album of what appears to be a very large funeral making its way up Marine Road Dun Laoghaire. None of my older siblings can identify it or even date it for that matter.
Can anyone help please?