Antrim,Armagh,Carlow,Cavan,Clare,Cork,

Donegal,Down,Dublin,Fermanagh,Galway,Kerry,Kildare,Kilkenny,Laois,Leitrim,Limerick,(London) Derry,Longford,Louth,Mayo,Meath,Monaghan,Offaly,Roscommon,Sligo,Tipperary,Tyrone,Waterford,Westmeath,Wexford,and Wicklow people...check in:)

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n/t

Her maiden name is McGelligott. :-)

with a couple of Clare and Armagh lines thrown in...they used to call those "mixed marriages":)

:o

well,it can't be helped..at least he married well:)

You stretched the page out.

:hi:

came from Counties Limerick and/or Leitrim, back in the 1850's (after the Great Famine). Landed in New York, made his way to Western PA, lived happily ever after. Until 1894, when he was killed after his plow overturned on him. Of something like that.

Would love to go there and see the Giant's causeway for myself. :)

and you have the Bushmills distillery right down the road,for your convenience:)

:)

on the cheek from the Cork contingent:)

:D

in Hilltown, Co. Down aka "Gateway to the Mournes". My dad's people were from Donegal and Ma's side of the family were from Wexford.

Belfast

is in Co. Down.

And it is my understanding Antrim is the Catholic area....though I could be wrong. Where's Hussar? He did a tour there.

They got to North Carolina and Georgia and reverted to the same three family vices: wine, women, and song (and, ergo, debt). They fled west, to Texas, one of the most famous being the second president of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar (the founder of the Columbus Ledger in Columbus, Georgia, before the family curse struck).

:)

Thanks

Wish I knew more, but my family were poor record-keepers.

My grandfather was born there, sired several kids, was widowed, and came over here at age 40 in an arranged marriage with my grandmother, who was in her late teens and had been over here since she was a baby. He then proceeded to sire 7 more kids - Dad was second oldest- in rapid succession, before dropping dead of a heart attack.

Needless to say, there weren't lace curtains on the windows.

True story. . .the extended family and assorted friends at one point saved and scrimped to put together enough money to send my grandad back to Ireland to visit his kids from the first family, who he hadn't seen in 15 or more years. Bought him the ticket and he refused to go because the ship was the Queen Mary - a British liner.

Ah, the Irish. So grand and oh, so stupid. (I'm allowed to say that.) You cannot help but be amazed that such a little island, with its tiny population, has produced the numbers of artists and poets and writers. What other country or culture, of even larger size, has impacted civilization as they have, with all their warts?

eileen from OH

Cos. Cork and Kilkenny, of unknown origin (Buzan is supposedly a french name, so the current theory is that they're norman-irish, but really, god only knows.) My maternal grandfather is from mostly protestant Co. Antrim and Tyrone stock (again, not sure where they're from or when they arrived in ireland or how long they spent there, but apparently sometime between the wars of the roses and the 1760's, they were in Ulster.), and is spending a bunch of his free time now reading irish ethnography (sp?) and history, so i'm getting a bunch of secondhand information.

the irish on my dad's die are somewhat less concerned about geneology.

quite a few generations back. The name of the town is Doonbeg.
http://www.visitdoonbeg.com/Natural.htm

Spent a week over there this summer with my dad, 4 of my 5 siblings, and their kids. 16 of us in all. Had a fabulous time meeting lots and lots of cousins, seeing the house that grandma grew up in, etc. Wonderful people!

Last name is O'Connell :)

His parents came from separate towns, met & married over here.

Mostly Irish on my mother's side, but a couple of generations back & the details have been lost.

Hard to tell because Grandma's parents seem to have died on the ship to Far Americay!

Hard to imagine a prettier place than Clare, too!

:loveya:
dbt
(Is that turf I suddenly smell?)

Haggertys Burkes Noonans and McCarthys god bless 'em :hi:

I descend from Carney's...I am not even sure if I spelled it correctly. :shrug: :hi:

It's a variation of Kearney:

Kearney is widespread in Ireland and has a number of different origins.

in the west it originated in Co. Mayo near Moynulla, the territory of the O Cearnaigh, where it has also been anglicised as Carney.

A separate family of the same name, but anglicised as (O) Kearney, arose in Clare, and migrated in early times to the area around Cashel in Co. Tipperary

I had no idea... :hi:

I'm fourth-generation Irish American and have the red hair, fair skin, and green eyes to prove it! And oh yeah, the temper}(

:hi:

nt

I think it was Swinford? or something like that. My grandfather and his five brothers came over in 1910. Spent time working in Liverpool before that.

My grandmother was born in Tuam, raised in Abbeyknockmoy. Hope to get there one day. I can't explain it - but there's a pull...

not sure where dad's side of the family were from

Father's: Mitchellstown Cork
Fitzgerald, O'Connor, Quirke and Quane blood.

modern day Gaelic football players Maurice Fitzgerald is from your mother's family place in Ireland. He singlehandedly won Kerry's 31st All Ireland Football title in 1997. BTW Kerry has 32 total, more than any other county in Ireland, but the Kerrymen have never beaten Co. Down in an All-Ireland Senior Final. Down has won 5; they were the first team to bring the Sam Maguire Cup over the border in 1960. They repeated this in 1961, 1968, 1991 and 1994. Down beat Kerry in 1960 and 1968.

Maternal g'parents from Spiddal. Paternal g'parents from a bit up the road near Carna.

Slainte!