Thomas married Anne Corrigan (1814-1881) from County Longford. They migrated to Hastings County, Ontario, Canada where they farmed and raised their family of 12 children. Daughter Agnes (1855-1938) was my great-grandmother. She married Thomas Woodcock (1848-1912). Thomas and Anne are buried in St Edmund's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Stoco, Hastings. Ontario.
County Sligo, or Sligeach in Irish, is located in the border region of Ireland. We are home to Benbulben Mountain, which is said to be Ireland’s most distinctive and shady valleys dominate the landscape here. Our county town is Sligo and we have a population of approximately 65,393. We look forward to helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.
Dunneill aka Dooneal TOWNLAND
Location: Sligo
Dunneill, Kilmacshalgan, Co Sligo
Collloney Church of the Assumption
Location: Sligo
St. Michael's Church
Location: Sligo
462F+G9 Cloonacool, County Sligo, Ireland
Kilcullen seaweed Baths
Location: Sligo
6W94+42 Enniscrone, County Sligo, Ireland
Parish of Ardcarne
2000-01-01 12:00:00
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland 1846
1846-01-01 12:00:00
Henry Garrett
1832-08-21 12:00:00
Sligo Death Notices From Cholera, Ireland
<p>DEATH NOTICES (from the Enniskillen Chronicle and Erne Packet) during the height of the cholera pandemic in Ireland.</p>
1832-09-13 12:00:00
Co. Longford, or Longfort in Irish, is part of the midlands region of Ireland. We have a gorgeous countryside with farmlands, lakes and bogs. We have a population of approximately 40,810. We look forward to helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.
Location: Longford
Cavalry Barracks Longford (Lower Barracks)
Location: Longford
Knights & Conquests Heritage Centre
Location: Longford
Granard Longford
Maria Edgeworth Center - Edgeworthstown
Location: Longford
Ballymahon Rd, Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, N39 E3C8
Greville Arms Hotel, Granard - Gen Michael Collins - Kitty Kiernan
Location: Longford
Greville Hotel, Granard, Co Longford
Four drowned in the Shannon
1882-12-02 12:00:00
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
Cholera rages in Longford
<p>FROM THE WESTMEATH JOURNAL</p>
1832-07-23 12:00:00
County Longford in the 1830s
<p>A snapshot of pre-famine local history, as described in the "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland" by Samuel Lewis, 1837. (Much of the information collected here was submitted by members of the local gentry and clergy of the time).</p>
1837-01-01 12:00:00