Ebenezer Turner, an Inland Revenue Officer, spent six years in Milltown “a somewhat squalid village” between 1869 and 1874. Second instalment. I would like to thank Dr. John Knightly for allowing me to copy this from his post in the Milltown & Castlemaine Down Memory Lane FB page. In this second post Ebenezer Turner paints […]
I would like to thank Dr. John Knightly for allowing me to copy this from his post in the Milltown & Castlemaine Down Memory Lane FB page. In this first post this Revenue Officer paints a vivid picture of life in Milltown and its surrounds just twenty years after the Famine. Ebenezer Turner, the Inland […]
From Mary Agnes Hickson’s Selections from Old Kerry Records (1872) & (1874) available from Archive CD Books Ireland. Lists of people, known as freeholders, who voted at elections or were entitled to vote. The entitlement to vote was restricted to men who owned land outright or held it by lease. In Ireland, during the 18th […]
I posted a blog headed Maps of Co. Kerry 1834 & 1893 a couple of months ago. That blog outlined in particular the historic maps available to help Kerry people researching their ancestors, to visualise the county/parish/townland in pre-Famine times. To-day I want to bring to your attention the Ordnance Survey of Ireland letters relating to […]
Radio Kerry will broadcast a one hour documentary on The Kerry Girls: Emigration & The Earl Grey Scheme, on Christmas Day at 2pm. The documentary, produced by J.J. O’Shea will feature snippets from yours truly as well as a range of contributors. Over a month in Australia in Spring of 2016, J.J. interviewed a number of […]
My blog to-day came to me courtesy of An Tinteán, which is a magazine published monthly in Melbourne, Australia. It is an excerpt from a book by Muiris O’Bric Spotsholas na nDaoine, published in 1995. I thought it was a really nice piece and would like to share it with my readers. The Birthing […]
The Ordnance Survey letters in regard to Kerry 1834-1841 are a valuable resource for the local historian. The collection, commonly known as O’Donovan’s Ordnance Survey Letters, after the historian, John O’Donovan (1806-1861), who led the project are now available online here. In the early 1820s, a consistent island-wide valuation of property in Ireland was initiated by […]
This week I am delighted to bring you, with their permission, some photos and videos from a great website Killorglinarchives.com. The aim of the Killorglin Archive Society is collecting, collating and archiving old photographs, recordings and films that capture the essence of life in Killorglin parish over the last century. But there is much […]
Last week I explained that the first bit of research when tracing the path of your Kerry ancestors should be done ‘at home’. If your ancestor was an immigrant to the United States ‘at home’ means in the records available in the U.S; wherever the emigrant settled. If you don’t already know it, you need […]
This week, John Teahan has shared with us a wonderful collection of old photos of Milltown and its residents from the surrounding area. If you are an emigrant native of Milltown or Castlemaine or a descendant of a Kerry emigrant from those parts, you will find a fascinating set of images portraying another world in […]
Kay Caball is a qualified Genealogist certified by the University of Limerick. A native of Kerry, Kay specialises in Kerry based local family history and genealogy. She studied History of the Family & Genealogical Methods at the University of Limerick with her research conducted in primary and secondary sources for the County of Kerry.
Kay is also a member of the Eneclann & Ancestor Network panel of genealogy advisers at the National Library of Ireland.
