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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Kildare => Topic started by: mags on Saturday 05 January 08 01:25 GMT (UK)
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Hi, This is my first post, I will be in Kildare in March and I would like to find the
grave of my g.grandfather, John O'Neill, my grandfather is from Ballymore Eustace, and a cousin tells me to get to the graveyard you have to go through a field so it's not just along the road side.
My cousin cannot remember the name of the graveyard. my grandfather's name was John O'Neill b1875-1969 and after he married he lived in Naas and
I believe my mother Mary O'Neill and siblings were born in Naas, in a house next door to
The Leinster Leader. any help would be great.
Thank you in advance
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Mags
Leinster Leader is on the Main Street in Naas ajacent to Basin Street.
As I personally know someone who owned the general grocery shop for that area during dates given and will be there in te next couple of weeks I will seek info for you.
Billiejo
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Hi Billiejo, that would be wonderful, I remember my mum pointing out
the house as we passed in the bus.
Their names were John O'Neill /wife Margaret. kids, Annie (sis) James (Jim)
Josephine and Mary, at some time they moved to Dublin.
Many thanks for any help at all.
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Informent says that 'House' was sandwiched between two shops, Gogarties & Bushells. The latter was burnt down by the 'Black & Tans' and after being derelict long term was purchased by the Leinster Leader. (LL)
Informent will investigate further but has suggested that the premises you refer too was occupied in by the manager of the Leinster Leader. ?? person you seek?
If true then (LL) could be worth a try also.
Billiejo
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Mage see personal message.
Billiejo
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Hi Billiejo.
Thank you for that information.
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Soon as I have info I will let you know.
Billiejo
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Hello Billiejo,
Do you know if there's a body in Ireland who put plaques on the outside of houses?
In the north the Ulster History Circle select properties for the Blue Plaques Scheme.
In England the Scheme has been running for over 140 years and is one of the oldest of its kind in the world. They have three colours ... Black, Blue and Red. I would have thought
that there might be a similar Scheme in Ireland but Google isn't showing anything. www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1495
Christopher
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the graveyard you are looking for is called coughlandstown.
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Brendan,
Would you have directions to Coughlandstown cemetery Ballymore Eustace?
Jack
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hi jack
my family are the oneills who owned two farms in balllymore one in coughlandstown and in broadleas and i could direct you to the graveyard no problem
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can you post the directions here, please,
Thanks, Jack
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jack
go into the village of ballymore you will see the church on your left hand side take the left turn after the church which will bring you to the square turn left again .you will see the school on the right and turn left there. that is the coughlanstown road. drive out that road for about 3 miles and you will see a bungloe with manicured hedges on the left hand side on a bad bend .about 500 yards after the bend you will see a gate on the left stop there and walk across the field to the graveyard
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Thanks Brendan.
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Does anyone know any more about this graveyard? I'm trying to figure out where my RC Ballymore ancestors would have been buried in mid-1800s, would it be Coughlanstown?
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Does anyone know any more about this graveyard? I'm trying to figure out where my RC Ballymore ancestors would have been buried in mid-1800s, would it be Coughlanstown?
this link might help. Three different graveyards listed for Ballymore Eustace (RC)
http://kildare.co/Kildare-Graveyards-by-Parish.asp
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Thanks for the link. I've seen those before, but of the three Ballymore listings one is Church of Ireland, one is St Mary's Catholic church with just three priests' burials, and St Mary's catholic cemetery was built in the 1960s. I'm looking for Catholic burials from earlier than that, so I'm trying to figure out if Coughlanstown is the only way to go in Ballymore or if there may be others...
Best wishes
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Thanks for the link. I've seen those before, but of the three Ballymore listings one is Church of Ireland, one is St Mary's Catholic church with just three priests' burials, and St Mary's catholic cemetery was built in the 1960s. I'm looking for Catholic burials from earlier than that, so I'm trying to figure out if Coughlanstown is the only way to go in Ballymore or if there may be others...
Best wishes
http://www.kildare.ie/ballymoreEustace/11_local_groups/
Have you tried the local history group there? There is a name and and contact details given on the link above. [/list]
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Yes I've tried them but the email address bounced... Will keep on trying though through other means. Thanks
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I grew up within a stone's throw of Coughlanstown graveyard which is adjacent to Stonebrook Petting Farm. The church (RC), which is now in disrepair was decommissioned perhaps in the 16th or 17th century - I have the date written somewhere if of interest. The old parish of Coughlanstown incorporated the townslands of Donode and Coughlanstown itself, which are both part of Ballymore Eustace parish today. There have been people buried here as recently as 2009 but these people were all very local. I would say you have to go back to the 19th century for Coughlanstown cemetary to have been used on a more widespread basis. There are a few clear headstones but not many and my guess would be that people buried here would have been resident in Coughlanstown, Harristown, Mullaboy, Donode, Mullaboden, Stonebrook, Susheen townslands rather than the wider Ballymore Eustace parish. Besides the main cemetary in Ballymore Eustace which is newer, there were people buried in Ballybought (which is very hard to find) and Tipperkevin as well as Coughlanstown and Hollywood.
I have heard that a Treacy family were the caretakers to that church. They lived in Coughlanstown and retained the key long after the church was decomissioned. The last surviving Treacy was buried in the 19th century in the graveyard with the key.
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Hi Merseult, thanks for this, very helpful to get a more local perspective. The St Kevin's Hollywood graveyard transcriptions are already online (not sure how complete) but I guess the others are quite inaccessible. Would be interesting to know if there are any graveyard records held at local libraries/societies...
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Hi Merseult, thanks for this, very helpful to get a more local perspective. The St Kevin's Hollywood graveyard transcriptions are already online (not sure how complete) but I guess the others are quite inaccessible. Would be interesting to know if there are any graveyard records held at local libraries/societies...
Had a quick word with my father and he says there were a lot of rc burials in St. John's coi cemetary in Ballymore eustace before the new rc cemetary was built in 1963.
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Thanks, will see if I can find any transcriptions for St Johns as well