Thanks for posting these photographs from Daniel, Sharon it is interesting for we will have 12 days in Kilkishen in October. Pam in Sydney., where the weather is beautiful. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Carberry" <sm8carberry@comcast.net> To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 7:53 AM Subject: [IRL-CLARE] Kilkishen photos by Patrick McCarty > Most of these great snapshots are by listmember Patrick > McCarty, who has shared them with me but now they also > appear on an online photo site, which everyone can access: > http://community.webshots.com/album/548725829HQfTCo > > My Carberry family has a very old social association with > Patrick's family. The Clare library website indicates that a > Daniel McCarty (if I remember the forename correctly) was > teaching school in Kilkishen just when my gggrandfather > Patrick Carberry would have been learning his A-B-Cs. > Then in the 1860s, Patrick's apparent younger brother Peter > (whom I found earlier this year in Illinois after his emigrating in > 1864) was the schoolteacher about whom Mr. McCarty's > ancestor wrote in his diary. To complete this small circle of > who was who in Kilkishen, Francis Cunneen was the teacher > later in the 1800s, after Margaret Cunneen had married Peter > Carberry and apparently died before the 1864 departure. > > Remarkable, isn't it, the small size of the school building and > even the RIC barracks. > > Enjoy, > Sharon Carberry > Georgia > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >