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Kerry / Re: Moynihan's - Shronedarragh, Headfort
« on: Thursday 09 August 18 10:07 BST (UK) »
Hi Ken,
Thanks for your speedy reply. I was actually gathering some info on my family background in Cork/Kerry for my son who lives in England. I live down under at the bottom of the South Island of New Zealand. At almost 71 years of age, the memory is a little dulled but some things I remember clearly. My grandmother Nora was a very take charge woman who always got her way, some would say domineering even. Having said that she didn't have an easy life. We paid a visit to the farm in Headford when I was in my early teens and remember well swimming in the stream that passed through the farm. I was brought up on the Lower road, my grandparents lived at the other end at what they called the fisheries. My grandfather (the lodger) was Michael Taylor who also worked on the railways and hailed from Spain/Baltimore in West Cork. I knew of John Kiely, but he had long passed before I was born. All the generations before me have now passed on. I mentioned that her first marriage to John Kiely produced 3 children, but looking on the 1911 census there was another child who nobody ever mentioned.
I got well acquainted with Dan Kiely who lived in Dillons towards the end of his life and attended his funeral. Brother Moordoch (brother brendan Kiely) passed away in Liverpool and is buried there.
Thanks for your speedy reply. I was actually gathering some info on my family background in Cork/Kerry for my son who lives in England. I live down under at the bottom of the South Island of New Zealand. At almost 71 years of age, the memory is a little dulled but some things I remember clearly. My grandmother Nora was a very take charge woman who always got her way, some would say domineering even. Having said that she didn't have an easy life. We paid a visit to the farm in Headford when I was in my early teens and remember well swimming in the stream that passed through the farm. I was brought up on the Lower road, my grandparents lived at the other end at what they called the fisheries. My grandfather (the lodger) was Michael Taylor who also worked on the railways and hailed from Spain/Baltimore in West Cork. I knew of John Kiely, but he had long passed before I was born. All the generations before me have now passed on. I mentioned that her first marriage to John Kiely produced 3 children, but looking on the 1911 census there was another child who nobody ever mentioned.
I got well acquainted with Dan Kiely who lived in Dillons towards the end of his life and attended his funeral. Brother Moordoch (brother brendan Kiely) passed away in Liverpool and is buried there.