Help in translating Irish wording

[debbie27]

Hi

Can anybody help me translate what is written on this card, it was my late fathers and we've recently come across it but have no idea what is for?

Many thanks

Debbie

[Sinann]

I could be wrong but I think it's a confirmation card.
I have my grandmothers from 1906 so hers is in English but similar size and also printed by Drogheda Independant.

[ronnier]

That means Confirmation   literaly translated means going under the Bishop's hand. 
Hope this helps it is probably a Confirmation card
Ronnie

[Sinann]

Top line Diocese of Meath.
So think I'm on the right track,

[debbie27]

Thank you, I suspected it may have been something to do with confirmation, does that mean it took place in the Diocese of Meath - dad was fostered so I'm trying to piece together his early years 

[Sinann]

The Diocese is fairly big but yes it would he would have been confirmed somewhere within it.
I don't know if other dioceses even had these cards.

[dathai]

when i went to school in the fifties the dot over the letters was prounced as h so ainim thoghta means name taken Albert Patrick  Moore.

[dathai]

May help with your research re Liam Mac Fhearghaile,perhaps Sinann can help with his ancestors card if this is the Bishops name or other

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&Surname=Carley

So i think in English his name is Liam Mac Carley looking at the Irish indexes this name is as rare as hens teeth best match seems to be M'Carley

[hallmark]

Mac FHEARGHAIL—IV—M 'Carrell, M'Kerrell, MacCarrell, MacKerrell, MacKerrall, MacCarroll, MacKarroll, Mackerel, Mackrell, &c.; a variant of Mac Fearghail, which see. Its anglicised forms are not always distinguishable from those of Mac Cearbhaill, which see. See also Mag Fhearghail.


http://www.libraryireland.com/names/macf/mac-fhearghail.php