Clogh Web Group
Clogh P.O.,
Castlecomer,
Co. Kilkenny
Telephone:
Email: webgroup@clogh.com
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contact us with news, queries, or just to say hello...
Founding members of the Clogh Web Group Maureen Murphy, James O'Neill, Charlie McCarthy (Web Admin), Catherine Brennan, Bríd Doyle (Chairperson)
Also (not in picture) Mai Dormer, Breda Murphy and Liam Treacy.
Don't forget that we still have some email@clogh.com addresses available. We have found good interest among our exiles. The fee is nominal - - only €10 a year. If you are interested, send us your preferred email address and password. Cheques payable to Clogh Webgroup.
Our Email address is : webgroup@clogh.com - You can also use the form on the top left.
WHERE ARE WE
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DOROTHY ANNE MOORE : In the mid 1800s my Grt Grt Granddad and other family members left Ireland not of their own wanting. My Grt Grt Granddad Patrick Moore and one of his sons also named Patrick came to England others went to America. My Grt Grt Granddad died in Wigan workhouse soon after he arrived. He married an Irish girl he met on the boat from Ireland by the name of Mary Dempsey, I think it is likely her father may have already known the family, he was the head of a vessel and must have helped them to leave Ireland. They never saw or heard again from the family that left for America. My Granddad James Moore was a young man when his father Patrick died, my father was a child when his father James died. All my father had was stories passed down but didn't know where abouts in Kilkenny the family were from. It has taken a long time searching from the last 2 generations at least, to find the family we became separated from. My uncle Tommy is the eldest living member of the my Moore family, at nearly 90 he hangs on to life in hope that this new freedom in technology will help us find our ancestral home and unite us with the family we became parted from. With the help of Rothe House in Kilkenny I found my Grt Granddads birth record, he was born 1847 Skehana, Castlecomer, Some other members Of the family in the last few days found to be in Cloneen, Clogh. Some of my family names are Moore, Phelan, Bergin, Walsh, Delany, Comerford and a few others. On searching local sites in these areas I have noticed some of the same surname which suggests to me that there are still descendants of my ancestors in this area. I would love to be in touch we ones, maybe they can even help me piece and link the family back together. I am more so wanting to come into contact with family of the same surname as myself 'Moore'. They may even know more of the story than us as to why and how my family came to have to leave. I have seen on your web-site people with some of these surnames, also a Jim Moore in the writing group. Do you have a local historian that could help me? In the search to find my missing family, genealogy and family history has become my passion. Now I have found the home of my ancestors I would like to know more about your web-group as I would like to know more about the community that my family was once part of, and hopefully one day come to visit it. 3/9/07. dorothyannmoore@yahoo.co.uk .
LAOISMAN : Ye're not all bad down there. That craic in Behans Saturday night and Knowles last week was well thought out. Oh I forgot ye're playing some match today.
TOP CAT : It's a great time to be a Kilkenny Hurling fan. Simply the best. 01/09/07
VILLAGE GIRLS : Congrats to the Cloneen Under 16's. Ye'er a grand bunch. Some fine hurling in Nowlan Park yesterday. 02/09/07
FROM : lar@clogh.com : Message: The "comeuppance" felt so good on Sunday that we would like more next year. 3/9/07
BONEYARRA : Did Leixman invent that woed "cumuppance". They got theirs longago. Champions again - Yes Cats. 3/9/07
FROM celiabryce@btinternet.com Just been reading your website looking for writers groups actually in Belmullet in Mayo but found you and the mention of Jarrow, where I was born. Frequent visitor to Ireland (grandad worked in the Jarrow yard, Palmers, originally from Kells, Co. Meath). I'm a writer lookgin for more writers in the Mayo area while I spend some time there in September workingn on a novel. If you know any contacts I'd be pleased to know of them Celia Bryce 4/09/07
TOP CAT : Great turnout in Kilkenny for Liam's return. If I'm dreaming, don't wake me. 4/09/07
TIMBER ROE : Good to see CMurf and Birdie home for the All Ireland.
SASSY LASSY : Ye boys sure had a mighty week. Is there anything left to drink.
TIMBER ROE : The Cloneen Underage teams are a credit. That young Regan chap is a budding D.J. Some skill for a 7 year old.
VILLAGE GIRLS : Well said TR. All the juvenile teams are going well. Did anyone see the Dodger and electric bike. I heard he got it from Harry. AND the Fallo is back from Thailand without a woman. 23/9/07
LAOISMAN : Holy God ! A football title for Kilkenny. It had to be the wimmin. 31/9/07
THOMAS J. WHITEMAN, From North Carolina - Great great grandfather Michael Comerford was a miner from Clogh, mother Mary Kennedy. Their daughter Julia emigrated to New York in 1884. Email : lawhiteman@aol.com : 2/10/07
The Web Group are very grateful to Brendan O'Neill for his excellent input to re-designing the website. Brendan can be emailed at : bon1@eircom.net