Do you need help in Athy, Co Kildare

[jud72]

Hi Damsel,

I visited the graveyard in Tankardstown - it has very few headstones and I didn't find what I was looking for. It's actually in Co. Laois. I checked the Athy parish records again too but didn't find anything new. I will keep looking but I don't think the chances of finding out anything more are high. I would, however, welcome any further suggestions. Thanks for the interest.

Jud

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi Jud I assume that the church here in Athy did'nt have the Tankardstown records ? let me know and I will pursue the caretaker for more information and also ask at the church in Kileen for you which is the next nearest village, worth a try maybe even if there are very few headstones there could be a lot of umnarked graves ? let me know anyhows, regards Damsel

[PK2]

Dear Celtic Damsel

Please will you  advise me if the Catholic Church of St Michael, Stanhope St. Athy, has a repository for its records and the address, if you able to. Or can one write to the Parish Priest? I would be looking for the period from about 1775 to 1805.

Thank you so much

Pat
p.s I see from some of your replies and work the Church was not built until 1834, I think you wrote, so bang goes that theory!. However, later on you talk about the old and the new church of St Michael?
If you do not mind the next time you look for graves or stones in the area please will you look out for any Toole's but before 1819, and definitely R.C. Thank you so much you have made your responses very interesting to read and I hope you do not mind me asking you.
Thank you again,
Pat

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi geney,  was just looking back over posts for something else and on re reading your query it came to me that I probably did'nt say to you there is a town up north of Ireland called "Newry" so if your not positive that the town you were looking for was in Kildare that may be an alternative for you  regards Damsel

Hi Celtic Damsel

Thanks for the website to view! The reason I had emailed to ask, was there ever a place named Nury, Ireland because that was on my Gt Grandfathers Census information, but for the rest of the family where they were born, they wrote Ireland and that was hard trying to find their place of birth. I had just found Gt Grandfathers details and wondered if the place was put down wrong or there was a place Nury, but they changed it to Nurney.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

Geney

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi Jud I could have sworn I answered this message from you must be losing my marbles here !! As I said to you Tankardstown is just on the border with Laois which is quite close to me here, did  St Michaels Church have the records for the Tankardsown cemetry in their office ? if not as I mentioned the nearest Church to the cemetry is in the village of Kileen along the same road further into Laois not sure if its an RC or what but if you want I will check it for you, although you say there are not many headstones there could be a lot of unmarked graves there that would be in the records, regards Damsel 

Hi Damsel,

I visited the graveyard in Tankardstown - it has very few headstones and I didn't find what I was looking for. It's actually in Co. Laois. I checked the Athy parish records again too but didn't find anything new. I will keep looking but I don't think the chances of finding out anything more are high. I would, however, welcome any further suggestions. Thanks for the interest.

Jud

[jud72]

Hi Damsel,

I still have not been able to examine any burial records for any of the graveyards in the area - only the baptismal and marriage records for Athy parish. I can't imagine that there are any burial records as early as 1800 though. Unfortunately my time in Ireland slipped away quickly and I did not get as much done as I wanted to - next time maybe!
Jud

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi PK2, the church I mentioned as being in existence since around 1834 is the one at Barrowhouse not St Michaels, the present St Michaels here in the town in Stanhope Street has only been around since the sixties or fifties if memory serves me but was built on the site of the old church , I dont know how long the older one stood but this man, Athy Local History Group Contact: Frank Taaffe,
Ardeigh House, Athy, Co. Kildare Ph: 059-8638181, would I imagine be a mine of that kind of information if you ring him or drop him a line. Or if your Toole's are from Athy and buried in the old cemetry here in the town the records will be in the present church office you have to ring it mornings and speak to the lady who runs the presbytery on 059-8638391, hope this helps, if theres anyhting more I can do let me know if you discover they are buried in St Michaels Cemetry I will call down and get some photos for you, regards Damsel

Dear Celtic Damsel

Please will you  advise me if the Catholic Church of St Michael, Stanhope St. Athy, has a repository for its records and the address, if you able to. Or can one write to the Parish Priest? I would be looking for the period from about 1775 to 1805.

Thank you so much

Pat
p.s I see from some of your replies and work the Church was not built until 1834, I think you wrote, so bang goes that theory!. However, later on you talk about the old and the new church of St Michael?
If you do not mind the next time you look for graves or stones in the area please will you look out for any Toole's but before 1819, and definitely R.C. Thank you so much you have made your responses very interesting to read and I hope you do not mind me asking you.
Thank you again,
Pat

[Celtic Damsel]

 Oke doke Jud I will call into the church in Kileen during the week just to see if there are any records that far back and if they hold them its worth a try for you anyhows you'd ever know, regards Damsel

Hi Damsel,

I still have not been able to examine any burial records for any of the graveyards in the area - only the baptismal and marriage records for Athy parish. I can't imagine that there are any burial records as early as 1800 though. Unfortunately my time in Ireland slipped away quickly and I did not get as much done as I wanted to - next time maybe!
Jud

[PK2]

Thank you so much Damsel.

It will be probably be easier for me to write to Frank Taaffe and I will do that shortly, and thank you for your kind offer regarding the records if there are any.
Thank you also for explaining about the Church too and now I know there was one it may follow that some of the older records have been kept, and I will ask Frank Taaffe when I write to him. It is a good start thanks to you, that is really great information for me.

Kind regards.
Pat