This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carroll. Kirwan. McDonald.Purcell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WWC.2ACI/118.1363.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a Catherine Carroll b. 1883, Polerone, Mooncoin, Kilkenny, dau of Richard Carroll and Johanna Howley who married a John Purcell. Son: John with sons Daniel and Sean.; and daughter Josephine "Jo" who married a Kennedy.Believe that John Purcell's famoly were teachers from Laois.The Carroll's descended from John Carroll and Katherine Kirwan of Polerone, Mooncoin, Kilkenny. Info about John Carroll and Katherine Kirwan ; Mary Carroll and Thomas McDonald needed.