Help in translating Irish wording

[Sinann]

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

her ancestors 
Mine doesn't have the bishop's name but even if it did the time difference is too great.

[Sonas]

The first cert also says Uimhir 1 and Onóracha which translate as Number 1 and Honours. Second cert also refers to an exam. I think this is a cert used to certify that the child in question had passed their catechism exam which was necessary to be able to receive Confirmation. The 1954 Catholic Directory lists Fr William Kirley as Diocesan Inspector of Schools in Meath. For anyone non-Irish, Liam is the Irish for William and Kirley seems close enough to some of the surnames listed above.

[Sinann]

Yes the card was issues as a result of the exam. My Gran told me they wore them around their neck on the day of comfirmation, she had been taken out of school when she was 10 (her mother died) so she was very proud of her pink card, (the grades were colour coded)  it was the only exam she ever got a chance to take.

[debbie27]

Thank you for all the information, it's such a shame it doesn't say what school......

[dathai]

Rev William Kirley
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~killoughey/Religious.html