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Looking for Kilclonfert Church information

Kilclonfert (Offaly)

Hello!

I'm looking for information about the Kilclonfert Church, Daingean Parish, King County outside Tillamore. If any of that isn't correct or doesn't make sense, I apologize. I am going by information I found on Ancestry. My 3rd great grandparents were married there on Jan. 21, 1830, Mary Lenehan, (daughter of Patritii Lenehan and Honora Mahoney), and Patrick (Smyth) Smith. I'm so excited to be visiting Ireland for the first time with my neice in August 7-12. We will be staying in Tullamore and hoping to find landmarks, houses, churches and maybe (fingers crossed), homesteads while we are there!

Any help or advice with this search would be so appreciated!

Thank you,

Deidre Ploog

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Deirdre,

There is a History Centre in Tullamore  -  Offaly History Centre at Bury Quay, Tullamore. 

There is alo a survey on burial grounds in County Offaly by Stephen Calaghan of the Heritage Office.

I cannot forward the detail, due to its size, but you can access it by Googling - Offaly Burial Database 2015

Regards,

McCoy

Deirdre:

I think the church you are looking for is St. Coleman's  https://www.kandle.ie/parish/daingean/#collapse-mass-10930 ; which is one of the four churches in the RC parish of Daingean.

I searched on the subscription site Roots Ireland and the only Smith/Lenehan marriage I located was January 24 1830 between a William Smyth and a N. Lenehan. This marriage was in Daingean RC parish.

Roger McDonnell

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you both for your help! I will be looking at all of the information today. It's exciting to finally put my feet down in the areas they may have lived, to finally see it.

Deidre

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Hi Deirdre:  

 

Liz had some difficulties with her reply post so I'm copying it below for you:

 

Hi Deidre

I live in Tullamore and will be here at the time you are here and could meet you. Where are you staying in Tullamore?

I have a book here  Towards a history of Kilclonfert offaly, you could borrow while here

There are Smiths living in Kilclonfert, not sure if they are any connection to your smiths/Lenehan. both name are local and plentiful to that area

will try to do some research,

Chrch in Daingean have a fer records, You could ring/phone

Parish Priest
Declan Thompson SPS PP

Address
St Mary's, Daingean, Co Offaly

Contact
T: +353 57 9362653

 

If you have any difficulties, please let me know at:  tulla@irelandxo.com and I'll ask Liz to contact you directly,  

 

Enjoy your trip.

 

All the best,

 

Jane 

Jane H, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Hello! This is a reply to Roger-

Thank you again for your posts and helping me find the church I'm looking for.

I do have a question about the church and the parish register entry. The church is St Coleman's in RC parish of Daingean but the information above the image of the parish register entry says "Philipstown; County of Offaly; Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. Marriages, Sep. 1829 to July 1830". It doesn't say Kilclonfert Church, St Coleman's or Daingean parish. I know both Smith/Smyth and Lenehan are not uncommon names but what you found out is of course too exact not to be them! I just wondered about all the different names and places. I'll be out there in a few days and I'm exited about finding all the information I can.

Thank you!

Deidre 

tangledribbon@…

Deidre:

First, let me apologize for not responding to your August 3rd posting. We have had a number of systems issues with not receiving notifications on new message comments and until today I had not seen your August 3rd comment.

Second, I Hope you had a wonderful trip to Ireland.

I think I have an answer to your question on Philipstown. There are three civil parishes which feed into the RC parish of Daingean: Killaderry, Kilcommon and Kilclonfert. Philipstown is located within the civil parish of Killaderry. When the microfilm copies of the registers were created in the 1950s, Philipstown was shown as the name of the parish rather than Daingean. Maybe it was a more prominent village at that time. Bottom line, Philipstown, Daingean, Kilclonfert, Killaderry and Kilcommon are all part of the same RC parish which today is "Headquartered" in Daingean.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

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