Leitrim-Roscommon

This story is reprinted from the Fall issue of The Bonfire, newsletter of the Ballykilcline Society. Dr. Ciaran Reilly also requested that we spread the word on various lists and web sites. The Gathering 2013 Strokestown Park Wants to Know Your Story As preparations continue for the 2013 Gathering, ...

Hello, Bernie, FYI, I have searched the 1842 Mahon rent list and there are no mentions of FitzMaurice or FitzMorris or Cloonfad More. Since I was checking something else in the Roscommon Flax Growers bounty list, I also looked for FitzMaurice and it showed: Fitzmaurice Michael Clooncraff Roscommon F...

2012 Ballykilcline Reunion Canceled Hello, Friends, I write to inform you with regret that the Ballykilcline Reunion in Ireland this August is canceled for lack of a sufficient number of registrants to cover the cost. From the feedback I have received, the cost of the trip, especially the air fare, ...

(Excerpted from the current newsletter of the Ballykilcline Society) Reilly, Farrell, Lennon, Furey to Highlight August Ballykilcline Reunion at Maynooth, Strokestown Plans are moving forward for a three-day Ballykilcline Reunion 2012 with a day at Maynooth in Kildare and two days in Roscommon. Rich...

Hello, Murph, We are glad to hear of your interest in both joining the Ballykilcline Society and attending our Reunion. We will post again soon with more details on arrangements for the Reunion and notify you when the registration period begins. We initially posted here because anyone interested may...

Ballykilcline Society Members Transcribe 1842 Mahon Estate Rent Roll Adapted from The Bonfire, newsletter of the Ballykilcline Society In 2005, the Famine Museum at Strokestown, Roscommon, offered the Ballykilcline Society access to two Mahon estate rent rolls. A small group of members gathered in a...

Reunion in Ireland in August 2012 Adapted from The Bonfire, newsletter of the Ballykilcline Society The Ballykilcline Society will return to Ireland next August for Reunion 2012. It will be the first such gathering there since 2005. The History Department of the National University of Ireland at May...

I believe I found Catherine McDonnell McCormick in the recently released database on New York State Alms Houses on Ancestry. Her age in 1897 was given as 78, so she would have been born in 1819. She was on Blackwell's Island in New York City. Her son James lived in Manhattan. Two other sons lived in...

Do you know where your family lived before they emigrated and where they settled in the U. S.? I have Catherine McDonnell (DOB about 1828) who married John McCormick at the Strokestown Roman Catholic Church on January 23, 1845. Witnesses were James McDonnell and Jane Conniff. John and Catherine had ...

Does anyone have an email address for Deirdre O’Neill of southeastern England, who is a Kilglass descendant pursuing Horan and Conroy lines? Some of hr family members settled around Albany, NY. She writes about her research at www.donheritage.com but there seems to be no way that works to contact he...

For the record: While the Leitrim-Roscommon board was down, Kilglass Gaels GAA Club won the Kellogg's Field of Dreams compeition -- which means a 100,000 Euros makeover of Kilglass' sports fields. Thanks to all who voted ... and kept voting. Congratulations to Kilglass, Noreen Corcoran who managed t...

I am having a problem with the link included in this message, but the one in the earlier Field of Dreams posting is fine.

Lynne Sisk

Hello, Friends, Noreen Corcoran of Kilglass, who is managing the Kilglass GAA club's bid in the Kellogg's Field of Dreams contest, wrote overnight to say: "Well, we have only 17 days left in our campaign, so I will just keep you reminded occassionally of our progress. We have been in 2nd place ...

Hello, Everyone, We received the following message through our web site and as a show of support and thanks for the assistance and warm welcome that the people of Kilglass Parish, Roscommon, have given us in our hunt for our roots, we ask you to help put them over the top in this contest for a new p...

John (Sean) O’Beirne, Rest in Peace Hello, Friends, Many of you in past years received answers to your questions and help on your searches on this board from John (Sean) O’Beirne. I am sorry to tell you that Sean died peacefully on April 25 in a hospital after a short illness and with members of his...