Elizabeth “Betty” Sheedy
- Born
- 1800-01-01 12:00:00
- Gender
- Female
County Kilkenny, or Cill Chainnigh in Irish, is located in the south-east region of Ireland. It is known as the Marble City because of its distinctive black marble. We have a population of approximately 95,419. We look forward to helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.


The church where James and Bridget were married-April 27th 1827
Location: Kilkenny

O'Loughlin Memorial Church of St John the Evangelist
Location: Kilkenny
Dublin Road, Kilkenny

Kilfane House
Location: Kilkenny
Kilfane House, Between Gowran and Thomastown

Kilkenny Castle
Location: Kilkenny
Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
Travelling Folk in the 1930s
<p>Between 1937 and 1939, primary school pupils across the Republic of Ireland interviewed the elderly in their neighborhood to collect and record local stories and folklore from the 19th century. "The Schools Collection" as it became known is held by the Dúchas Folklore Collection in UCD and is and has been digitized online at duchas.ie. One of the topics schoolchildren were asked to write about were "Travelling Folk" or An Lucht Siúil. </p> <p>Here is a selection of what "settled" children wrote about travelers in the late 1930s.</p>
1938-01-01 12:00:00
1893 All Ireland Senior Hurling Final
1894-06-24 12:00:00
1895 All Ireland Senior Hurling Final
1896-03-15 12:00:00
1897 All Ireland Senior Hurling Final
1898-11-20 12:00:00
County Limerick, or Luimneach in Irish, is located in the med-west region of Ireland. Limerick became Ireland’s inaugural National City of Culture in 2014 with a wide variety of events happening around the city. We have a population of approximately 195,175. We look forward to helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.

Old Abbey House, Shanagolden, Co Limerick
Location: Limerick

Treanmanagh TOWNLAND
Location: Limerick
Treanmanagh, Pallasgreen, Co. Limerick

Kilpeacon House in 1850
Location: Limerick
Kilpeacon
Bunratty Castle
Location: Limerick
St. Patrick's Graveyard
<p>Parish Priest</p>
1861-01-01 12:00:00
Foundation of South Liberties GAA Club
1884-01-01 12:00:00
Irish press warns against Jamaican Indentured Servitude
<p>The theme was always the same: the pestilential climate of the island, the reduction of poor emigrants to slaves, the severity and cruelty of the planters (and planter-dominated Assembly clinging to every vestige of oppression) and, of course, the absence of priests and chapels.</p>
1840-12-01 12:00:00
1887 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final
1888-04-29 12:00:00
Our aim is to connect all people with a link to Thomastown (Kilkenny). You may live here, have visited here or maybe are tracing ancestors who left long ago. In any case, we’re sure to have lots to share and are delighted to welcome you.

Island House Flour Mill
Location: Thomastown (Kilkenny)
Island House/Island Flour Mill (Crafts Council of, Mill Street (off), Thomastown, County Kilkenny

Grenan Flour Mill
Location: Thomastown (Kilkenny)
Grenan Flour Mill, Mill Street, Thomastown, County Kilkenny

Thomastown Workhouse
Location: Thomastown (Kilkenny)
St Columba's Geriatric and Rehab Hospital, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny
Foundation of Thomastown GAA Club
1905-01-01 12:00:00
King John gave the Anglo-Norman lord Thomas FitzAnthony control over counties Waterford and Desmond
1215-01-01 12:00:00