Good morning all-- I am hoping to get to Wexford for a couple of days during my trip this coming Fall and would like to make the best use of my time there in researching. I am hopeful that the brilliant Wexford researchers in the group will be able to give me some advice on how/where to get what I need. The family I am researching is O'Sullivan, which should not be difficult as there are very few of them listed in Griffiths, Tithe Applotments, Census records, etc., for Wexford at all. At least that's what I thought. I have recently received a copy of a letter written in 1911 by Moses O'Sullivan, who lived near Melbourne, AU at the time, to my great grandmother, telling her of various family members and the 'home' in Wexford, as Raheen. Of course I was elated to find that information--I know where they come from! My trouble is, in trying to locate Raheen, I've found at least three (3) townlands/villages called Raheen in Wexford. How do I know which Raheen is correct? I suppose another clue could be another copy of a letter I received from a 3rd cousin who still lives in Swords, Dublin, stating that her memory of the family was that they came from Poulpeasty, Co. Wexford. I've not been able to find Poulpeasty on any maps and am wondering if that is near the correct Raheen. I have also tried to correlate the O'Sullivan/Sullivan listing with Murphy listings in the same areas, as my GGGgrandmother was Catherine Murphy (m. Nicholas O'Sullivan). I've not found anything that I have good enough knowledge of to be of any use. Within the aforementioned sources, I did find one 'possible' hit. The Griffiths Valuation lists Nicholas Sullivan as living in Shanowle, Horetown, Wexford. My GGGgrandfather's name was Nicholas. However, there is no Raheen nearby. The last of the O'Sullivan male children born in Ireland was Moses, in 1838. I can find no listing of his birth or baptism. He landed in Australia just months before his 1864 marriage to another Wexford Co. born person, Elizabeth Delany. What I'd like to find is the parish where the O'Sullivans were from, the church they would have attended, but most of all, the graveyard where ancestors could be buried. Where do I go next? What places should I visit in order to get the best information? Any help would be most appreciated! Thank you for taking the time to read this rambling message. Blessings to you all, Karen Atherton Oregon, USA -----Original Message----- From: wexford-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:wexford-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of wexford-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 12:01 AM To: wexford@rootsweb.com Subject: WEXFORD Digest, Vol 6, Issue 5 Today's Topics: 1. Re: WEXFORD FORUM AND INPUT (Kevin Byrne (BT)) 2. Kilmore (Peter Furney) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:55:29 -0000 From: "Kevin Byrne \(BT\)" <byrne@colonsay.org.uk> Subject: Re: [WEXFORD] WEXFORD FORUM AND INPUT To: <wexford@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <6EFF74AEFE9744D28AA709EDA7702421@KevinByrnePC> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Oh dear, I must have expressed myself badly and do apologise. I would not for a moment suggest that people be encouraged to post to other sites, as Cara so rightly says that would be a very unhelpful development. Instead, I was wondering how total newcomers (nowadays) find our activities on Rootsweb, and whether there is a simple way in which we can reach out to them and draw them in. The idea of a page on Facebook is not to accept postings or anything that should be on Rootsweb, it is merely a (free) way to reach people who have expressed an interest in (say) Wexford and to direct those who are interested in family history towards our Rootsweb area. For example, if you search "Wexford" on Facebook just now, you reach one private person, a Wikipedia article and a link to Wexford USA. If instead you enter "Colonsay" (where I live) you will come across pages for our local brewery, the local estate owner and one which covers community interest (including BMD etc.) called Friends of Colonsay (also other pages). None of these pages competes with its own website - instead, it is used to capture interested persons and direct them to the site in question. There is also a degree of cross-fertilization; it makes it very easy for interested people to pass on the details to their friends; and it permits the page-owner to send a message from time to time, perhaps to flag up something of special interest. This note is just to clarity my suggestion and indeed to support Cara and Eileen - it is crucial to keep all postings directed to and archived upon Rootsweb; on the other hand, things have changed a lot over the last 15 years or so and I rather suspect that younger people expect things to be very easy. I wonder if most of them do not just try a quick search online and give up if they cannot find something on the first screenshot of results? Those young people have got older relatives who might have a lot to contribute... it was just a thought! Best wishes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileen O'Leary" <geneeol@optusnet.com.au> To: "Cara_Links" <cara_links@bigpond.com>; <wexford@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [WEXFORD] WEXFORD FORUM AND INPUT Another point Cara et al - messages sent to wexford@rootsweb.com <wexford@rootsweb.com> remain archived on http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WEXFORD/2011-01 so you can find messages there from as far back as 1980. I don't know Facebook well enough to know if there are archived messages from earlier times available to researchers years later. Eileen ----- Original Message ----- From: Cara_Links To: wexford@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:41 PM Subject: [WEXFORD] WEXFORD FORUM AND INPUT Dear Kevin, Whilst all these ideas you put forward are part of the going forward with the times, it is indeed taking from the the Wexford list what it was intended for, to be used by the listers, but a series of things have occurred on this list, 1- Being the list that was compiled by the list owner and appears on the bottom of all mails to the list whilst a modern innovation and good idea there is never any input to suggest that newbies look at this list, but once clicked on it does defeat the purpose of what the lists were originally intended for and that was to encourage the exchange and input to the list, which of course has died over the last few months it just simply needs a burial to finish it off. Also this is a ROOTSWEB based forum it is not here to promote other ways and means of utilising our own ends by creating other forums on other sites, is this not spreading the resources to the absolute limit. So instead of looking for more, places to post more things why not simply introduce to this list a worthy subject, for discussion on the list, and thereby re-creating interest in the list Yes some of us have been researching forever and a day, and find these lists of some use, and yes we are competing with a new area of research with mobiles, twitter and face book to name a few, but being faithful to the Rootsweb Wexford list is not too much to ask I dont think at all, as loyalty is needed to get these lists up and going again I dont feel it is the obligation to have a young member build us a social network on any of the modern forums but for us to support and re-build what is available here These are my thoughts and as anyone would know me, my loyalties remain with Rootsweb,they were the first to give researchers their free site, and now they appear to be the ones that will be tossed aside first ( not a good idea I think) My ten cents worth Cara I use BullGuard Spamfilter to keep my inbox clean. It is completely free: www.bullguard.com/freespamfilter Wexford Surnames List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/wexford.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEXFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:38:35 -0000 From: "Peter Furney" <peter@furney.co.uk> Subject: [WEXFORD] Kilmore To: <wexford@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <3D818835DA354894ADEB10740F811E82@PETERLaptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" With not a lot of traffic on the site maybe someone can help me on this. My Grandfather Lemuel Furney moved from County Carlow to County Wexford in 1859-1862 (Number 2 child born Carlow 1859 Number 3 child born Wexford 1862) and is shown in the 1901 census living with his family at Hillcastle Kilscoran Co Wexford. He is shown in the 1911 census living at Ballycronigan, St Helen's Co Wexford. I have been informed that he was responsible for the draining of the "Slob" at Kilmore (Did not do it himself, got a man in to do it for him !) I have his children from his first marriage living at House 1 Ballycross Kilmore in the 1901 census. Where can I find more information on House Number 1 ? Could it be Ballycross House?? Peter Furney ------------------------------ To contact the WEXFORD list administrator, send an email to WEXFORD-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the WEXFORD mailing list, send an email to WEXFORD@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEXFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of WEXFORD Digest, Vol 6, Issue 5 *************************************

Never overlook the fact that the O may not always appear on your name search. This is general information and not to suggest they were your family, but it would appear they may have been the founding fathers of the name in Wexford PALLIS HOUSE O'Sullivan The O'Sullivans who have always dwelt in this house came from Tipperary and settled first at Barracurragh. Pallis was built in 1769 by a builder name Ryan of Crochan and served as a mill owners dwelling The mill continued working through out the 1798 Rising and 1916-1922 troubled times and finally closed in the early 1950's. Patrick Sullivan (sic) is recorded as the miller in the Mill Book in 1846, so the name Continued in Wexford up until 1920 and after that date, and some may be there still. This is something I have in notes, but will be looking more at the name that is why this mial is numbered 1- Cheers for now Cara I use BullGuard Spamfilter to keep my inbox clean. It is completely free: www.bullguard.com/freespamfilter