Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Kerry => Topic started by: corisande on Tuesday 14 June 11 21:53 BST (UK)
Title: Lussinagh Spa,Tralee, Kerry
Post by: corisande on Tuesday 14 June 11 21:53 BST (UK)
can anyone help me with this address. It is given on a soldier's medal card in June 1920
Lussinagh Spa,Tralee, Kerry
I cannot get anything out of Goggle, and I suspect that there may have been a transcription error
Title: Re: Lussinagh Spa,Tralee, Kerry
Post by: annclare on Tuesday 14 June 11 23:58 BST (UK)
I can't find anything that might be Lussinagh but Spa or the Spa is a village on the north side of Tralee Bay between Fenit and Tralee town. Suspect Lussinagh is a mistranscription as I would expect it to start with Lis. Placenames starting with Lus are rare.
annclare
Title: Re: Lussinagh Spa,Tralee, Kerry
Post by: corisande on Wednesday 15 June 11 06:41 BST (UK)
Thanks
My geography of Kerry is not that good! This is the actual writing
I think that he might have been in RIC at the time (June 1920), but am not sure.
Title: Re: Lussinagh Spa,Tralee, Kerry
Post by: shanew147 on Wednesday 15 June 11 08:28 BST (UK)
maybe Lassinah - it seems to be a house located in the townland of Ballygarran, near to the village of Spa, between Tralee and Fenit as annclare mentioned - see : link (http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,478099,615654,6,7) (click either of the historic map options)
Shane
Title: Re: Lussinagh Spa,Tralee, Kerry
Post by: corisande on Wednesday 15 June 11 08:43 BST (UK)
Thanks Shane
That certainly looks like the right place, it is near Spa and is a near enough rendering of what is written on the medal card.
All I have to do is work out what he was doing there at that date. :)
Title: Re: Lussinagh Spa,Tralee, Kerry
Post by: Kerry-jh on Saturday 25 June 11 02:53 BST (UK)
Hi, It is definitely Lassinagh, The Spa. It was once a beautiful property, now sadly in ruins. In the mid C19th. it was owned by John Day Stokes. In the early C20th. Oliver Robert Stokes lived there ,but it changed ownership soon after that. I live very near it and could probably find out more information on it if you were interested. Regards, Joan Holland
Title: Re: Lussinagh Spa,Tralee, Kerry
Post by: corisande on Saturday 25 June 11 07:10 BST (UK)
Joan
That is very kind of you to offer, but I think I have enough for my purposes at the moment, as I was trying to establish where exactly he was living at that time in Kerry.
I still do not quite understand why he was there, and writing for his medals from there
I was trying to trace a man called Luxton - my notes on this link (http://www.cairogang.com/other-people/auxiliaries/luxton/luxton.html) - who joined the Auxiliaries moved to the RIC and then moved on to the Palestine Police. I never succeeded in finding out too much about him, and thought that this address might give me a lead
Title: Re: Lussinagh Spa,Tralee, Kerry
Post by: Kerry-jh on Sunday 26 June 11 00:43 BST (UK)
There was an RIC Barracks just down the road in Spa village at the time, so he was probably working there and staying in Lassinagh House.