Tipperary Family History Society

[Pegasuss]

Munchiecarter.

I did a google search for 'ballyquirkeen' & it came up with this:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlwat2/land/watland2.htm

I don't know if it will be of any help to You, but it may be?

[munchiecarter]

thankyou i have come accross that before, my family name is dunne,  around 19 30's.. but thankyou, it doesnt matter anymore if i cannot find the fact that they lived there, i would just lilke to know where it was situated ..but very grateful

[cathaldus]

my maternal family are from Clogheen (Ardfinnan).  Names are Maloney, Mason and Maher.  my granny was Ellen Maher, born 1869 and my mother was Margaret Maher, born 1904 (died Manchester U.K. 1988).  They lived in Councillor Lane (Pound Lane).  Any local knowledge would be appreciated. I visited Clogheen last year and found Tipperary  terrific!!  Cathaldus

[SueLong]

Looks like you are related to my husband, who is grandson of James Joseph Maher, older brother of your Mother Margaret. I have corresponded with Mike who I think must be your brother. I'm assuming he has passed information about James' descendants to you & also those of Thomas, the younger brother. If not please respond & we can pool our information. We are going to Clogheen in October, won't have time for research, but just to have a look round as we haven't been to Ireland before.
Regards
Sue

[cathaldus]

Dear Sue,

I've sent an email over to my brother Michael re. your posting.  I know there were two elder brothers (James and  George) and the two younger ones  Christopher and Thomas.  Thank you so much for making contact.   You will love Clogheen and Tipperary,  it's simply like "going home"

Bill (aka Cathaldus)

[Bill Maher]

Bill and all-

It looks like we have a Maher search going on here.  I'm looking to get farther back than Martin Maher, b, bfr. 1816, Thurles, Tipperary, probably Ballycurrane.  He married Anne Fogarty.

This is my "wall" and it's 0200 where I am, so....

Thanks.

[PeterY]

Hi

Has anyone got any information about the Quirk family of Tipperary.

I have been told that my wife's GGrandfather is a James Quirk

who was born around 1863

and he came from Tipperary

and Married a Margaret Unknown.

They had a Daughter  Annie,

but we are not sure if Annie was born there or Cardiff. 

She married and Alfred Stark from Cardiff.

Any bells ringing???

PeterY

[corisande]

There is a veritable alphabet soup of organisations and web sites

The "nice people" quoted in this thread are now on the  IGP™ County Tipperary Genealogy Project

The "people who charge" are Tipperary North Genealogy Centre at Nenagh

And for South Tipperary the same thing at Bru Bory Cultural Centre in Cashel

Both the last two are "part of the Irish Genealogical Online Record Search System (ORS), an all Ireland initiative organised by the Irish Family History Foundation IFHF."  I have never really plumbed how they work, but they certainly know how to charge. They are particularly unhelpful unless you hand over large amounts of cash in advance. I went into the Nenagh one and they would not let me look at books on their shelves!

They do have a sort of "lucky dip" online data base that cost 5€ a pop to get specific information. But even with that you have to be careful as their records are not complete and have been transcribed onto cards, rather than allowing you to see the original photo of the parish register (as for example you can do with Scottish records)

The IFHF really should look at ScotlandsPeople to see how records can be presented efficiently and at a reasonable cost.

[Pegasuss]

"They do have a sort of "lucky dip" online data base that cost 5€ a pop to get specific information"

And a further £150 (or euro equivalent) for a detailed search (Thats what I was Quoted!)