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You can read about the upload here, including links.
https://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2019/04/limerick-union-board-of-guardians-files.html
Mostly it's Minute Books etc but what's good about this upload is it has the Union Death Register 1907 to 1915, the information is much the same as a death cert except it includes date of admission so you can see if a person was there days, months or years before they died.

She searched for 61 years to find her mother and her delight at finding her still alive is just lovely.
Doesn't say it in this article but I heard they found a first cousin via DNA
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/eileen-81-finally-finds-her-103yearold-mother-37747547.html

I don't have a subscription but when I first uploaded my DNA to MyHeritage I was able to contact matches I just tried now and I got the you need to subscribe message, is this recent or do they give you a few free contact messages for a while.

Rev. John Egan CC died 28 June 1872 aged 29 from smallpox he was serving in the parish of Kilcullen (Kildare) and was buried in the newly built church. Born about 1842.

According to a newspaper report on his funeral he had a cousin Rev. John Egan Vice President of Ennis College (later Most Rev.John Egan bishop of Waterford and Lismore) and Rev C Egan CC Lorrha  his brother.
There is a Cornealius Egan on marriages for Lorrha Parish (Tipperary) in 1872.

Cornealius died 1907 his cousin the late Most Rev John Egan is mentioned on the report of his death. The 1901 census and his death cert give his date of birth 1838/39, his cousin about the same both men are said to come from Dunkerrin in Queens County (Offaly). The younger John Egan CC isn't mentioned when either of these men died and no parents are given in any of the funeral reports.


There is a baptism of a Cornelius Egan 24 July 1838 to Gilbert Egan and Mary Meagher https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634656#page/109/mode/1up
and there is a John Egan baptised the 21 Jan 1839 to Egan and Ellen Meara
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634656#page/112/mode/1up
but I can't find a John Egan to Gilbert and Mary.

There is a John 1841 to Pat and Catherine Brogan
another 1843 to Denis and Johanna O'Brien
another 1844 to Pat and Mary Kennedy.

Given how reliable newspapers can be (I just read one that claimed my grandfather served in WWI, he didn't he served in the Boer War) do you think "Rev C. Eagn CC brother of the deceased" is a red herring or have I just made a bags of the whole search?