Eoghan is correct, I have visited both, St. Brendan's is a very small church, no graveyard attached. The Iimmaculate Conception is a little bigger with a small graveyard, my granduncle Fr. Michael O'Donoghue was parish priest, he is buried just outside the front door. Most burials would have been in Tralee unless there was a family burial plot elsewhere. Brendan On 2 Apr 2013, at 13:46, Eoghan MacSweeny wrote: > Hi Jenny > > There are 2 churches in the parish of Ballymacelligott. One is > called St. Brendan's Church, Clogher and the other is the Church of > the Immaculate Conception, Ballymacelligott. See the Kerry discese > website for details: > > http://www.dioceseofkerry.ie/parish.php?parish=Ballymacelligott > > Kind regards > > Eoghan MacSweeny > Blackrock > Cork > > On 2 Apr 2013, at 07:44, <jagb@mcmedia.com.au> wrote: > >> That is interesting thanks Brian. >> The Foundation Stone for the present Catholic Church at Geraldine >> (South Canterbury, New Zealand) was laid on 8th December 1935. The >> Church at Geraldine is the Church of the Immaculate Conception. >> I know there were many from the Ballymacelligott Parish in Kerry >> who immigrated to the Geraldine area in New Zealand - including my >> great grandparents and other relations. >> Makes you wonder if the Geraldine church was named by some of those >> early immigrants from Ballymacelligott in memory of their church at >> 'home'. >> With thanks. >> Jenny >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Brian Moriarty >> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 5:25 PM >> To: jagb@mcmedia.com.au ; REG VOLK ; IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Fwd: Has anyone ever come across one of >> these? >> >> There is a church listed in the parish of Ballymacelligott referred >> to as >> the Immaculate Conception - refer the Diocese of Kerry website >> http://www.dioceseofkerry.ie/parish.php?sec=mass_times&parish=Ballymacelligott >> >> Not sure of the address but Google should find it. >> >> Brian >> Christchurch NZ >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: <jagb@mcmedia.com.au> >> To: "REG VOLK" <regvolk@shaw.ca>; <IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:10 PM >> Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Fwd: Has anyone ever come across one of >> these? >> >> >>> Hello Reg, >>> The Mary SUGRUE in this record was the daughter of Cornelius >>> SUGRUE and Catherine nee GORMAN of Commons West, Ardfert in Kerry. >>> Mary SUGRUE died on 2 March 1892 at the age of 33 and is buried in >>> the Ellesmere Catholic Cemetery, near Leeston in Canterbury New >>> Zealand. >>> Three years later in 1883, Mary would be joined in New Zealand by >>> her sisters Ellen and Catherine. >>> My Mary DUGGAN arrived in New Zealand in December 1879 aboard the >>> Lady Jocelyn and in October 1880 married my great grandfather >>> Timothy SUGRUE. >>> To date I have not located any evidence that the SUGRUEs from >>> Ardfert were close relations to my SUGRUEs from Dromavalla in the >>> Parish of Ballymacelligott. >>> My query was – had any person on the list heard the Catholic >>> Church in Ballymacelligott being referred to as The Church of the >>> Immaculate Conception. >>> With thanks >>> Jenny >>> >>> From: REG VOLK >>> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 3:05 PM >>> To: mailto:jagb@mcmedia.com.au >>> Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Fwd: Has anyone ever come across one of >>> these? >>> >>> So...who would this person be? >>> >>> https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FST2-3TY >>> >>> >>> Reg >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On 2013-04-01, at 1:48 PM, REG VOLK <regvolk@shaw.ca> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Maybe try them directly: >>> >>> http://www.dioceseofkerry.ie/parish.php?parish=Ballymacelligott >>> >>> >>> Reg >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On 2013-04-01, at 1:03 PM, <jagb@mcmedia.com.au> wrote: >>> >>> >>> In the 1940 New Zealand probate of my 80 year old great >>> grandmother Mary >>> (DUGGAN) SUGRUE, her daughter (my great aunt) signed an affidavit >>> stating my >>> great aunt had seen a Baptismal Certificate for my great >>> grandmother Mary >>> DUGGAN who had been Baptised on 7th October 1860 at the Church of >>> the >>> Immaculate Conception in Ballymacelligott County Kerry. >>> This Baptismal certificate does not appear to still be in the >>> family and the >>> record does not appear in the Kerry Parish Records - there are no >>> or very >>> few pre 1868 records for Ballymacelligott on that site. >>> However I have no doubts that Mary DUGGAN SUGRUE did indeed on her >>> emigration to NZ in 1878 take her Baptismal Certificate with her >>> from Kerry >>> to her new home in New Zealand. >>> I have to date not seen where the church at Ballymacelligott was >>> named The >>> Church of the Immaculate Conception. Has anyone every seen >>> reference to the >>> Church at Ballymacelligott having that name? >>> With thanks >>> Jenny >>> >>> _______________ >>> --------------- >>> >>> Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: >>> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com >>> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >>> the body of the message. >>> >>> To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an >>> email to IRL-KERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word >>> 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >>> message. >>> >>> To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: >>> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ >>> >>> Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with >>> the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website >>> to reach a wide audience. 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