Barnyderg, I looked at the 1851 index to towns, townlands, parishes and baronies of Ireland and could not find it. It may misspelled or it may be a sub division of a townland. If it is a sub division the center may be familiar with it. I do talk to them on the phone every now and again so I'll check. Now your question about the county line between Mayo and Sligo. At one time the border ran right through the town of Ballina so part of the town was in Mayo while the northeast part of the town was in County Sligo. In the 1870s or so the border was moved about 3 or 4 miles northeast. So you could have been born in Co. Sligo and died in Co. Mayo but still living in the same place. That is part of the reason for confusion when looking in the parish of Kilmoremoy. Kilmoremoy had the large church there in Ballina called St. Murdachs and often priest were not always available in the smaller churches like those in Ballysakerry and Kilfian. So country folks would go into town, Ballina to get the services they needed. For babies this was very important as deaths were common and you might not want to wait for a priest to come to your parish. If you're a catholic then you know babies that died before being baptized would end up in limbo and could not go to heaven. May sound a little stupid but the Irish took all that very seriously. It may be changed today but I'm not into religion so I don't know. At any rate you will find records in St. Murdachs in the parish of Kilmoremoy for folks from outside parishes for these very reasons. From the center of the parish of Ballysakerry into the town of Ballina is about a three mile walk and for the poorer Irish it would be the two legs that did the trick. Ballina was also the place for fairs where country folk would sell their eggs, butter or whatever they could grow to sell. Now you need Discovery Map number 24. Call 515 232 1070 and let them know what you need. I hope they're still in business as i've not used them for sometime. This map will show you the location of all the townlands in this part of Mayo. It will not show the boundries of the townlands but at least you'll see where they are ************** Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make meals for Under $10. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000002)

Wow! See what valuable information and insight there is out there just waiting to be shared? Hope that detailed reply will encourage others to actively participate. Not sure if you have this, but I just now "googled" Barnyderg Ireland and up came a few hits including this one: http://www.puregolduk.com/bren/kilglass_co_sligo11b.htm. Kilmeroy Moy Parish There are old records on the website plus an invitation to e-mail hostess Brenda Williams in the UK - perhaps it is still viable! I didn't explore the other hits. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: <DMc1026909@aol.com> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] Parish of Kilmoremoy in 1828- County MayovsSligo? > Barnyderg, I looked at the 1851 index to towns, townlands, parishes and > baronies of Ireland and could not find it. It may misspelled or it may > be a sub > division of a townland. If it is a sub division the center may be > familiar > with it. I do talk to them on the phone every now and again so I'll > check. <snip>

Jean, Thank you. I believe you are correct when referring to the Co. Mayo townland of Kilmoremoy in the CP of Kilmoremoy with its PLU of Ballina. My ancestor Winifred Cawly was born there (Kilmoremoy/Ballina) on 25 May 1828 and baptized 27 May 1828 (daughter of Winifred Cawly & Richard Cavock/McCavock). She married Patrick O'Hora on 9 June 1844 (in Ballysakerry-Cooneal). According to records I have, Patrick was born about 1829-30. There are several men named Patrick O'Hora/O'Hara listed on the Mayo Family History Centres web-site . . . . and one was born 18 Feb 1830 in Kilmoremoy/Ballina, RC Parish. Can you help me determine if this man is THE Patrick O'Hora I seek? Thank you in advance! -Greg glswartz@embarqmail.com USA/Ohio 419-344-9453 -----Original Message----- From: irelandgenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irelandgenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jean R. Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 5:15 PM To: irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] Parish of Kilmoremoy in 1828- County Mayo vsSligo? Hi Greg - Not sure about your 1828 date, but if you "google" the Leitrim-Roscommon Genealogy Homepage website, enter Kilmoremoy in the civil parish field of the (all-Ireland) IreAtlas townland search engine, you will see that the CP by that name was found in 46 townlands in BOTH Cos. Mayo and Sligo in 1851. The listing includes the 139-acre Co. Mayo townland of Kilmoremoy in the CP of Kilmoremoy with its PLU (poor law union/nearest large town/registration district) of Ballina. Researchers might want to check the Transferred Townlands webpage at the L-R website. Some townlands were transferred from Cos. Galway and Mayo to Roscommon through the Local Government Act of 1898. Check also for any additional transferred townlands on other websites, as I believe I found additional ones in an earlier search. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Swartz DO, Gregory" <Gregory.SwartzDO@ProMedica.org> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:54 AM Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Parish of Kilmoremoy in 1828- County Mayo vsSligo? >I realize borders change over time, so does anyone know whether the Parish >of Kilmoremoy/Ballina was previously in county Sligo? Kilmoremoy Parish >now appears to be in County Mayo, northern region. Just want to have my >facts straight when I document my ancestor's birth. > My ancestor Winifred Cawly was born 25 May, 1828 at Barnyderg, the > daughter of Richard [Mc] Cavock & Winifred Cawly. Two other sons (both > named Michael after one died in infancy) were baptized in Kilfian Parish, > 1831 and 1834 respectively. Don't know the significance of that change in > parish. > Regardless, "my" Winifred was married on 9 June, 1844 to Patrick O'Hora > born ca 1829-30 in the Roman Catholic Church, Ballysakerry-Cooneal Parish, > County Mayo. > -Greg Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ Great place to get help with your family research. County Westmeath has been adopted! Help wanted: Still need County Coordinators ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ EMAIL CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This Email message, and any attachments, may contain confidential patient health information that is legally protected. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. The authorized recipient of this information is prohibited from disclosing this information to any other party unless required to do so by law or regulation and is required to destroy the information after its stated need has been fulfilled. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and delete the message from your system.

SNIPPET: Co. Mayo -- "It was market day at Castlebar when I arrived there, and I strolled for a couple of hours among the market people. Great numbers of women, holding a hank or two of yarn of their own spinning, stood in the streets and offered their trifling commodies for sale. Very few of those whom I addressed could speak English; but some of the men about, seeing the disadvantages under which I laboured, very oblingingly stepped forward, and offered assistance as interpreters. This sort of politeness is common to the Irish. I ascertained that the women could not earn by spinning more than a penny or twopence a day, and hundreds of them attended the market whose earnings for the whole week did not exceed sixpence or ninepence; yet notwithstanding this inadequate reward of long and hard labour, their honest countenances wore the habitual impress of cheerfulness and perfect good humour. Scarcely any of the women had shoes, and I felt considerable alarm while threading my way through a dense crowd, lest I should step upon their feet." -- Jonathan Binns, "Miseries and Beauties of Ireland," 1837

Grandmother's Wedding Photograph Pat Jourdan Here is the picture I cannot paint. Take one green field and draw to it a score of people - half to be dressed in white, half in black. Drench in sepia for a hundred years. Countryside men, stiff in suits, the women bound tight at the waist, bodies hiding behind cloth. The bride to be shrouded in mists of coverings. She regards you, her lips brim, ripe without lipstick. Stand next to her the shyest of the men, trying to hide his coarsened builder's hands. Give him the clearest if all their eyes. Although they look direct at you, their bodies call to each other through the cloth At their feet, arrange a row of children, open as roses. Those stocky bones, that peasant stubbornness. A peace. A certainty. (Surround all this with sky.) Somewhere I am in that picture already present in that blood. History's sliced between us like a carving knife yet something close survives - with these first grey hairs I become that woman in the photograph.

Hi Greg - Not sure about your 1828 date, but if you "google" the Leitrim-Roscommon Genealogy Homepage website, enter Kilmoremoy in the civil parish field of the (all-Ireland) IreAtlas townland search engine, you will see that the CP by that name was found in 46 townlands in BOTH Cos. Mayo and Sligo in 1851. The listing includes the 139-acre Co. Mayo townland of Kilmoremoy in the CP of Kilmoremoy with its PLU (poor law union/nearest large town/registration district) of Ballina. Researchers might want to check the Transferred Townlands webpage at the L-R website. Some townlands were transferred from Cos. Galway and Mayo to Roscommon through the Local Government Act of 1898. Check also for any additional transferred townlands on other websites, as I believe I found additional ones in an earlier search. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Swartz DO, Gregory" <Gregory.SwartzDO@ProMedica.org> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:54 AM Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Parish of Kilmoremoy in 1828- County Mayo vsSligo? >I realize borders change over time, so does anyone know whether the Parish >of Kilmoremoy/Ballina was previously in county Sligo? Kilmoremoy Parish >now appears to be in County Mayo, northern region. Just want to have my >facts straight when I document my ancestor's birth. > My ancestor Winifred Cawly was born 25 May, 1828 at Barnyderg, the > daughter of Richard [Mc] Cavock & Winifred Cawly. Two other sons (both > named Michael after one died in infancy) were baptized in Kilfian Parish, > 1831 and 1834 respectively. Don't know the significance of that change in > parish. > Regardless, "my" Winifred was married on 9 June, 1844 to Patrick O'Hora > born ca 1829-30 in the Roman Catholic Church, Ballysakerry-Cooneal Parish, > County Mayo. > -Greg

Ann & Linda - The prices have recently gone up - what hasn't - but it is still a wonderful way to be introduced to "all things Ireland." I really enjoy this colorful magazine which is published six times a year. Although they have had a change of publisher (Harmonia, Ltd.), I still receive my issues regularly. There is more advertising, but the binding is sturdier. Magazine still contains really beautiful, colorful photographs, in-depth articles on Ireland past and present, book reviews, updates on films, music and arts making the rounds of Ireland, and Christopher Moriarty's popular 'Byways Rather Than Highways' column, etc. Each issue comes in a cellophane protective mailing jacket and contain about 65 pages. "Subscriptions available for USA, Canada, Australia, Britain, Ireland and Europe. As an example - USA subscriptions are $33/year. One can also e-mail the magazine at subs@irelandofthewelcomes.com I have also purchased single issues here in the States in large bookstores. Single issues are US $5.50; Canada $5.95; Ireland 3.50 euros (inc. VAT); United Kingdom Stg 2.95 pounds. A new one-year subscription (six issues) is $33 USA; Canada $36; Australia $34; Britain 18 pounds; Ireland 21 Euros; Europe 23 Euros, per Sept-Oct 2008 issue. Two- and three-year subscriptions are also offered. Those in the USA who care to renew their subscription for one year (six issues) it is currently $18. ***Please -- E-mail them at subs@irelandofthewelcomes.com to confirm prices!! Published in Dublin, but they have an address for renewal subscriptions at Ireland of the Welcomes, POB 422364, Palm Coast, FL 32142-9243.. ***Hi Linda - I am intrigued by your Grey Oaks Equine Sanctuary e-mail handle. (Sounds like a wonderful place!) As I recall, there were at least two donkey sanctuaries in Ireland years ago, wonder if they are still in operation? Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grey Oaks Equine Sanctuary" <greyoaks@brightok.net> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:53 AM Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Ireland of the Welcomes Magazine > You may purchase the magazine, Ireland of the Welcomes at most bookstores > in their magazine department. > - > Linda Sullivan-Simpson > Ireland GenWeb > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ann McKernan > To: irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 7:51 AM > Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] More Recent Trips to Ireland > > > How and where can you find the magazine "Ireland of the Welcomes". I > would > like to get it if it is available in the USA. Thanks. > Ann M. >

I realize borders change over time, so does anyone know whether the Parish of Kilmoremoy/Ballina was previously in county Sligo? Kilmoremoy Parish now appears to be in County Mayo, northern region. Just want to have my facts straight when I document my ancestor's birth. My ancestor Winifred Cawly was born 25 May, 1828 at Barnyderg, the daughter of Richard [Mc] Cavock & Winifred Cawly. Two other sons (both named Michael after one died in infancy) were baptized in Kilfian Parish, 1831 and 1834 respectively. Don't know the significance of that change in parish. Regardless, "my" Winifred was married on 9 June, 1844 to Patrick O'Hora born ca 1829-30 in the Roman Catholic Church, Ballysakerry-Cooneal Parish, County Mayo. -Greg -----Original Message----- From: irelandgenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irelandgenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Grey Oaks Equine Sanctuary Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 11:53 AM To: irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Ireland of the Welcomes Magazine You may purchase the magazine, Ireland of the Welcomes at most bookstores in their magazine department. - Linda Sullivan-Simpson Ireland GenWeb ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann McKernan To: irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] More Recent Trips to Ireland How and where can you find the magazine "Ireland of the Welcomes". I would like to get it if it is available in the USA. Thanks. Ann M. Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ Great place to get help with your family research. County Westmeath has been adopted! Help wanted: Still need County Coordinators ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ EMAIL CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This Email message, and any attachments, may contain confidential patient health information that is legally protected. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. The authorized recipient of this information is prohibited from disclosing this information to any other party unless required to do so by law or regulation and is required to destroy the information after its stated need has been fulfilled. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and delete the message from your system.

TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY As the mute nightingale in closest groves Lies hid at noon, but when day's piercing eye Is locked in night, with full heart beating high, Poureth her plain song o'er the light she loves, So, Virgin, ever pure and ever blest, Moon of religion, from whose radiant face, Reflected, streams the light of heavenly grace On broken hearts, by contrite thoughts oppressed -- So Mary, they who justly feel the weight Of Heaven's offended majesty, implore Thy reconciling aid, with suppliant knee. Of sinful man, O sinless Advocate! To thee they turn, nor him the less adore; 'Tis still HIS light they love, less dreadful seen in thee. -- Gerald GRIFFIN born and raised in Limerick, son of a tradesman, was to become a dramatist, novelist and poet, much of his work accomplished in London. Upon returning to Ireland he joined the Teaching Order of the Christian Brothers. His novels depict life in southern Ireland.

You may purchase the magazine, Ireland of the Welcomes at most bookstores in their magazine department. - Linda Sullivan-Simpson Ireland GenWeb ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann McKernan To: irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] More Recent Trips to Ireland How and where can you find the magazine "Ireland of the Welcomes". I would like to get it if it is available in the USA. Thanks. Ann M.

How and where can you find the magazine "Ireland of the Welcomes". I would like to get it if it is available in the USA. Thanks. Ann M. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> To: <IrelandGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 9:51 PM Subject: [Irish Genealogy] More Recent Trips to Ireland > SNIPPET: In the Mar-April 2002 issue of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" > magazine, readers shared comments about visiting the "Emerald Isle." > > Beth COLLIER, Lusby, MD, wrote: "Last year I signed my husband and I up > for > a two-week 'Rick Steve's bus tour of Ireland. I also started to subscribe > to > IOTW. As a first time traveller to Ireland, I thought your magazine made > Ireland a bit too perfect-looking for tourists. I thought to myself, 'It > can't possibly be that beautiful.' As our plane approached Dublin Airport, > it was! Our tour group travelled from Dublin south around the whole > island. > It was fabulous! Great food, beautiful sights, friendly people. We were > about to tour Dunluce Castle in Northern Ireland, when we heard about the > U. > S. terrorist incidents. Our tour continued as planned. Our tour group all > agreed that any travel delays we experienced were nothing compared to the > suffering of families and victims. We were delayed an extra six days in > Dublin. Every Irish person we ran into in the hotels, tourist sights, > churches, etc., immediately offered us their condolences. Ireland has such > a > long connection to the USA. Even our mini-bus driver on the Aran Islands > had lived and worked in the USA. I have so many fond and unique memories > of > Ireland - including listening to Evensong at Christ Church in Dublin, > watching 'The Quiet Man' on television, great ice cream at the 'Rope > Bridge > Tea Room,' walking through Newgrange burial mound, and watching 'Richard > III' performed at Trinity College. We had great mild weather in Ireland. > Many of my photos look just like those in your magazine! ...I can now say, > 'I was there!'" > > Bill & Jane DELAHOYDE, Manchester, NJ, shared: "We so enjoyed 'Inisheer, > the > littlest Aran," by Jo KERRIGAN, with photographs by Richard T. MILLS, in > your Sept-Oct 2001 issue. My bride and I visited Inisheer from Doolin on > our > honeymoon last year. All those stone walls amazed us. We were sorry that > you > didn't feature the new Cultural Centre up on the hill. As it was a windy, > cold day, beyond 'soft,' we stopped in the pub there for a few Irish > coffees. Evidently they only had electricity from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; when > we > enquired as why they didn't generate power from wind generation, one > replied, 'Ah sure we had that ten years ago, but they all blew down.' We > subsequently discovered that they use honey instead of sugar in their > Irish > coffees - rather appropriate for our honeymoon!" > > Judy SCHILLER, NYC penned: I have been to Ireland four times and still > haven't seen everything yet! So far my favourite place is the Aran > Islands. > It's very magical and certainly another world for a New Yorker. I felt > very > at peace there. The highlight of this trip was going to two plays. The > theatre in Dublin is so superior and so much less costly than here in NY. > I > saw 'The Lonesome West' at the Gaiety and a production of 'Of Mice and > Men' > by Steinbeck by the 'Sionnach Theater Company' at the New Theatre in > Temple > Bar. The acting was really good and you enter this small theatre through a > bookstore. Another highlight was hiking to the top of Howth Hill to see > all > of Dublin Bay. Not only was the view dramatic the day we did it, the wind > kicked up and there was a slight drizzle to add to the drama. The third > highlight was finding the Irish Jewish Museum, on Victoria Street, off > South > Circular Road. People here are stunned there is such a museum in Dublin - > the history of the Jews dated back to 1660. Looking forward to my next > trip! > > Sharon Diane ROBERTS, New Smyrna Beach, FL wrote: "You should rename your > magazine Paradise magazine. Because from the picture of Bull Island at > Dublin Bay, by Richard T. MILLS, in the Nov-Dec 2001 issue, that's exactly > what you have ... And sandy beaches and luscious golf courses ... With the > bartailed godwits, this would be more than paradise to birdwatchers, this > would certainly be Heaven on Earth." > > David M. BOWEN, Indianapolis, IN shared: "Six members of my family and I > just completed a 15-day holiday in Ireland. My wife and I were there > before > in 1996, so we were the tour guides on this recent trip. The improvements > of > the roads were quite noticeable and much appreciated. The hosts of our > B&Bs > were exceptional, but the highlight of our trip, believe it or not, was > purchasing goods from Michael CUSACK at 'Irish Handcrafts' on Patrick > Street > in Limerick. We spent a hour and a half being entertained, including one > hour after closing by a man who seems to have kissed the Blarney Stone > more > than once. Besides being entertaining, he is a master in the art of > salesmanship... Another highlight was visiting the home of photographer > Fergus BOURKE near Moycullen. We arrived unannounced and he was a > delightful > host. A photograph in your Mar-April 1999 issue prompted us to look him > up. > We look foward to planning our next trip to Ireland, via the information > in > your magazine." > > James & Mildred WIMPY, Independence, MO, wrote: "Ireland is so special to > my > wife and I, that we spent our 25th wedding anniversary there. The next > year > we returned with ... our closest friends. We have dreamed of returning > with > our children. When we talk of our retirement years, our first thought is > to > spend at least a year castaway in many of its small towns. Our journeys > have > taken us throughout Europe, but for some mystical reason, Ireland is the > place we always long to return to.... We were only a matter of days from > purchasing our tickets when the events of September 11th unfolded. I admit > that during the emotional turmoil and pain of the days immediately > followng > that tragedy, there were doubts about a trip... However, as the smoke has > cleared from our minds, there can be no doubt. We will return to Ireland. > We > will return to many places that bring joy to our hearts. Travel will > continue to be an important part of our life. We will not be denied the > future friendships, future memories, future experiences that will surely > enrich our lives." > > Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ > > Great place to get help with your family research. > > County Westmeath has been adopted! > > Help wanted: Still need County Coordinators > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

FUNERAL RITES I I shouldered a kind of manhood stepping in to lift the coffins of dead relations. They had been laid out in tainted rooms, their eyelids glistening, their dough-white hands shackled in rosary beads. Their puffed knuckles had unwrinkled, the nails were darkened, the wrists obediently sloped. The dulse-brown shroud, the quilted satin cribs: I knelt courteously admiring it all as wax melted down and veined the candles, the flames hovering to the women hovering behind me. And always, in a corner, the coffin lid, its nail-heads dressed with little gleaming crosses. Dear soapstone masks, kissing their igloo brows had to suffice before the nails were sunk and the black glacier of each funeral pushed away. II Now as news comes in of each neighbourly murder we pine for ceremony, customary rhythms: the temperate footsteps of a cortege, winding past each blinded home. I would restore the great chambers of Boyne, prepare a sepulchre under the cupmarked stones. Out of side-streets and by-roads purring family cars nose into line, the whole country tunes to the muffled drumming of ten thousand engines, Somnambulant women, left behind, move through emptied kitchens imagining our slow triumph towards the mounds. Quiet as a serpent in its grassy boulevard, the procession drags its tail out of the Gap of the North as its head already enters the megalithic doorway. III When they have put the stone back in its mouth we will drive north again past Strang and Carling fjords, the cud of memory allayed for once, arbitration of the feud placated, imagining those under the hill disposed like Gunnar who lay beautiful inside his burial mound, though dead by violence and unavenged. Men said that he was chanting verses about honour and that four lights burned in corners of the chamber: which opened then, as he turned with a joyful face to look at the moon. -- Seamus Heaney, from "North" (1975)

SNIPPET: In the Mar-April 2002 issue of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine, readers shared comments about visiting the "Emerald Isle." Beth COLLIER, Lusby, MD, wrote: "Last year I signed my husband and I up for a two-week 'Rick Steve's bus tour of Ireland. I also started to subscribe to IOTW. As a first time traveller to Ireland, I thought your magazine made Ireland a bit too perfect-looking for tourists. I thought to myself, 'It can't possibly be that beautiful.' As our plane approached Dublin Airport, it was! Our tour group travelled from Dublin south around the whole island. It was fabulous! Great food, beautiful sights, friendly people. We were about to tour Dunluce Castle in Northern Ireland, when we heard about the U. S. terrorist incidents. Our tour continued as planned. Our tour group all agreed that any travel delays we experienced were nothing compared to the suffering of families and victims. We were delayed an extra six days in Dublin. Every Irish person we ran into in the hotels, tourist sights, churches, etc., immediately offered us their condolences. Ireland has such a long connection to the USA. Even our mini-bus driver on the Aran Islands had lived and worked in the USA. I have so many fond and unique memories of Ireland - including listening to Evensong at Christ Church in Dublin, watching 'The Quiet Man' on television, great ice cream at the 'Rope Bridge Tea Room,' walking through Newgrange burial mound, and watching 'Richard III' performed at Trinity College. We had great mild weather in Ireland. Many of my photos look just like those in your magazine! ...I can now say, 'I was there!'" Bill & Jane DELAHOYDE, Manchester, NJ, shared: "We so enjoyed 'Inisheer, the littlest Aran," by Jo KERRIGAN, with photographs by Richard T. MILLS, in your Sept-Oct 2001 issue. My bride and I visited Inisheer from Doolin on our honeymoon last year. All those stone walls amazed us. We were sorry that you didn't feature the new Cultural Centre up on the hill. As it was a windy, cold day, beyond 'soft,' we stopped in the pub there for a few Irish coffees. Evidently they only had electricity from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; when we enquired as why they didn't generate power from wind generation, one replied, 'Ah sure we had that ten years ago, but they all blew down.' We subsequently discovered that they use honey instead of sugar in their Irish coffees - rather appropriate for our honeymoon!" Judy SCHILLER, NYC penned: I have been to Ireland four times and still haven't seen everything yet! So far my favourite place is the Aran Islands. It's very magical and certainly another world for a New Yorker. I felt very at peace there. The highlight of this trip was going to two plays. The theatre in Dublin is so superior and so much less costly than here in NY. I saw 'The Lonesome West' at the Gaiety and a production of 'Of Mice and Men' by Steinbeck by the 'Sionnach Theater Company' at the New Theatre in Temple Bar. The acting was really good and you enter this small theatre through a bookstore. Another highlight was hiking to the top of Howth Hill to see all of Dublin Bay. Not only was the view dramatic the day we did it, the wind kicked up and there was a slight drizzle to add to the drama. The third highlight was finding the Irish Jewish Museum, on Victoria Street, off South Circular Road. People here are stunned there is such a museum in Dublin - the history of the Jews dated back to 1660. Looking forward to my next trip! Sharon Diane ROBERTS, New Smyrna Beach, FL wrote: "You should rename your magazine Paradise magazine. Because from the picture of Bull Island at Dublin Bay, by Richard T. MILLS, in the Nov-Dec 2001 issue, that's exactly what you have ... And sandy beaches and luscious golf courses ... With the bartailed godwits, this would be more than paradise to birdwatchers, this would certainly be Heaven on Earth." David M. BOWEN, Indianapolis, IN shared: "Six members of my family and I just completed a 15-day holiday in Ireland. My wife and I were there before in 1996, so we were the tour guides on this recent trip. The improvements of the roads were quite noticeable and much appreciated. The hosts of our B&Bs were exceptional, but the highlight of our trip, believe it or not, was purchasing goods from Michael CUSACK at 'Irish Handcrafts' on Patrick Street in Limerick. We spent a hour and a half being entertained, including one hour after closing by a man who seems to have kissed the Blarney Stone more than once. Besides being entertaining, he is a master in the art of salesmanship... Another highlight was visiting the home of photographer Fergus BOURKE near Moycullen. We arrived unannounced and he was a delightful host. A photograph in your Mar-April 1999 issue prompted us to look him up. We look foward to planning our next trip to Ireland, via the information in your magazine." James & Mildred WIMPY, Independence, MO, wrote: "Ireland is so special to my wife and I, that we spent our 25th wedding anniversary there. The next year we returned with ... our closest friends. We have dreamed of returning with our children. When we talk of our retirement years, our first thought is to spend at least a year castaway in many of its small towns. Our journeys have taken us throughout Europe, but for some mystical reason, Ireland is the place we always long to return to.... We were only a matter of days from purchasing our tickets when the events of September 11th unfolded. I admit that during the emotional turmoil and pain of the days immediately followng that tragedy, there were doubts about a trip... However, as the smoke has cleared from our minds, there can be no doubt. We will return to Ireland. We will return to many places that bring joy to our hearts. Travel will continue to be an important part of our life. We will not be denied the future friendships, future memories, future experiences that will surely enrich our lives."

Personal invitation from Carol Morgan

PRELUDE Still south I went, and west, and south again, Through Wicklow from the morning to the night, And far from cities and the sights of men, Lived with the sunshine and the moon's delight. I knew the stars, the flowers and the birds The grey and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors and fens. -- J. M Synge

BURREN REQUIEM (In memory of my mother) I offer you a gentian bluer than the sky, the ocean, bluer even than your eyes. Windswept, your ancestors, my stone age forebears, climb with me the limestone headland to Cahir Dhuin Irghuis loose stones chiming magic summer notes. With sun-hot hands I offer you a ringing stone and remember your arms, reddened like mine, yours, strong enough to rescue a man drowning near Loop Head. I feel the force still behind the stinging slap -- some petty misdemeanour -- though you would have killed for me, your tribe. You had mother's dreams for me far from stark landscape where rain hollows into the rockbed of a soul. I plant stolen gentians on your grave and carve lime shards from Poulnabrone into a healing requiem. -- Eithne Cavanagh

THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves. The hour of the waning of love has beset us, And weary and worn are our sad souls now; Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us, With a kiss and a tear on they drooping brow. -- William Butler Yeats (1889) from "Crossways"

A WHITE ROSE The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; Oh, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. But I send you a cream-white rosebud, With a flush on its petal tips; For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips. -- John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) was born in Drogheda (Louth) Ireland. After apprenticing at various newspapers, he became a member of the Fenian Society, a group dedicated to Irish nationalism. Soon after joining, O'Reilly was arrested and banished to a penal colony in Australia. In 1869 he escaped to America and joined the staff of the "Boston Pilot," the diocesan paper. He soon became editor and went on to publish many volumes of poetry, ranging from patriotic odes to lyrical ballads. In testament to the wide acclaim he enjoyed for his poetry, O'Reilly was picked to deliver a commemorative poem at the dedication of Plymouth Rock in 1889 - a major honor for any writer at the time, especially for an Irishman. He died only a year later at age 46 from an overdose of sleeping pills, though it is not known whether it was a suicide or an accident.

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The County Leitrim website has been updated. The Rossinver Civil Parish webpage has been added with a map of the civil parish, links, Family History Films, surnames, available RC records plus webpages for all 133 of its townlands. There are now nearly 600 townland pages on the sites and they can be very helpful when doing research. It is a community project, in that pictures, surname, links and records are provided by many who use the site. You can access the site at two places: Ireland Genealogy Projects: http://www.igp-web.com/leitrim/index.htm Ireland GenWeb Project: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/~irllet/ If you have an pictures, links, information, or records you would liked added to the sites, contact me off the list. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com