Do you need help in Athy, Co Kildare

[jud72]

Hi again Damsel,

Am still trying to gather info on Tankardstown, and have found a reference to a graveyard in Barrowhouse which is actually in the Civil Parish of Tankardstown, Co. Laois. I guess that it is just across the border from the Tankardstown of Kildare and is contained in the Roman Catholic Parish of Athy. Are you familiar with this graveyard? Is it likely to contain early 1800 headstones?   Thanks.

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi you still dont say if your ancestors were RC or COI Jud, Barrowhouse is not too far from me and as most villages in Ireland have a cemetry I assume that Barrowhouse does.
If your Corrigans were COI then you can contact the RCB Libary in Dublin if you want to do a search for them giving them whatever information you have for them and the area. I will drive up to Barrowhouse for you when I get a chance and check it out for you and see if there is a cemetry, but Ardshull Moate is nowhere near barrowhouse either , its out on the Dublin rd in the opposite direction , Barrowhouse is a turn off the old carlow road, anyhows i'll have a look for you, regards Damsel

[jud72]

Hi Damsel,

I would be hugely grateful if you could check out Barrowhouse. There may well be no link with Ardscull at all - but the family were almost definitely from the parish of Athy. The names in the parish registor have led me to believe that there is a very good chance that they were from Tankardstown. The family were Catholics. My branch of the Corrigans were evicted in the early 1800's but there may have been others who remained.

Thank you so much for your help.

[Celtic Damsel]

Ok I will drive up to barrowhouse in the next few hours its not that far and see if there is a Catholic cemetry there for you, regards Damsel

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi Jud, I posted a reply to you but it seems to have dissapeared into cyber space !! forgive if it appears and this is a repeat of the info it contained. I went to Barrowhouse for you this afternoon. There is a Catholic church there  built in and around 1834, it has a cemetery around it , its classed as the parish of St Michaels so the records for the burials will be held at the church of St Michaels here in Athy Town ( if you needa phone number for them let me know) or at the national Library in Dublin I would assume but you can check that on their website, http://www.nli.ie/.

The Stones that were readable there date from the time the church was built onwards but of course there may be burials on the records not marked by stones?
To further excite you and complicate the search no doubt ! I discovered there is an old Church ruin and quite a large cemetery attached to it at Tankardstown, I could not access it due to the fact that it is now on Farmland owned by the Kinsella family, it remains public property however so he has to allow access to it but when I called to his farmhouse he was not at home , possibly in the fields as its harvest time and it was a beautiful day today,
 I was told by a local that there are still occasionally burials there by local families who own plots, and that there are Crypts there as well as graves and that the burials stated there long before the Church at Barrowhouse.
Tankardstown while fairly close to Athy is actually in Co Laois, and therfore I would imagine the records for it to be in the nearest church in Laois to it which would be the church at Kileen Village where there is also another cemetery of course !!
 I would think though that the register for burials there would also be at the National Library but a call to the church here in Athy I would imagine would shed some light on that, I have photos of the Church at Barrowhouse if you would like to have them in case it ties into your search you could pm me an email addy and I will pass them on, hope I have helped a little let me know if I can help in any other way and good luck with your search, regards Damsel

[jud72]

Thank you so, so much for doing that, Damsel. I am very gratefull!

The graveyard in Tankardstown sounds very promising. There's a chance that I will be able to get to Ireland early in the New Year, so will try to find it then. I haven't been able to find it on a map yet however. I am familiar with the road that leads from Athy to Ballylinan. Am I right in thinking that it is close to this road?

[Celtic Damsel]

I am trying to loacate the whereabouts of the record for Tankardstown for you at he mo Jud it is first left after the Tegral factory at the end of the town signposted " the Bleach", the road goes out to Barrowhouse, Tankardstown, Kileen and eventually on to Carlow the records for the Barrowhouse Cemetry are with the guy below according to the Laois County website but no sign of the Tankardstown but I am following a few leads and will let you know if I get the wherabouts in the meantime if you want the shots of the Barrowhouse Church and cemetry send me a PM with an email addy, Regards Damsel
Patrick Kelly
Carlow Road
Ballylinan
059 8625160

[Taidquest]

nice avatar damsel!!

[gig]

hello celtic damsel

would newbridge be to far for you ,im searching for my great grandparents
i have very little info on them most from my grandfathers birth certificate
patrick joseph mortimer , kathleen mortimer nee daly
they were living in newbridge in 1922 when my grandfather was born also called patrick joseph as far as i know most of the family stayed around there
patrick snr died about 1966 and kathleen died about 1990
kathleen was possably from dublin
i was hoping there headstones might give me more info
or any other relatives buried around there
if its too far no worries but thank you for you time
 i saw in one of your posts that you were searching for relatives in derby maybe i can help as i live in the derby area
best regards gig