Moytura's Irish
Bookshop

We now have a chat club which I hope you will join and use. It offers the chance to share and answer questions about all things Irish. Perhaps some of you will have common roots, family connections - 

If you have enjoyed your wander through the bookshop I'd love to hear your comments, good, bad or indifferent, perhaps you'd sign my 
GUEST BOOK. Or EMAIL me with any suggestions you might have.

Name: Jerold E. Silverio, Sr.
Website:
Referred by: Just cruised on in.
From: Winchester, Connecticut, USA.
Time: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 5:39
Comments:

I have always wanted to visit Ireland, but alas, I've never had the opportunity.  From the look of your home site, I think that when I have the time, I'll come back to it and visit Ireland through your pages. I'm very impressed with your site.  I may have you design a site for me when I figure out what I want to include. I think I will come back in the near future and go through your entire site. Until then, I hope you and yours have a safe and wonderful holiday.

Very truly yours, Jerold E. Silverio, Sr.

Name: Kieran Devaney
Website: Rosses Point, Sligo 
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Co. Sligo, Ireland
Time: Friday, December 25, 1998 at 18:27:20
Comments:

Hi all, What a great Irish website Come and see us in Rosses Point

Name: Mary Catherine Lafford
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In.
From: Nova Scotia, Canada
Time: Sunday, December 27, 1998 at 17:31:34
Comments:

Hi there i was in Bosnia last June 1998 and just loved it. I want to go back soon. I am sending my dauther and mother in June. We were there for 16 days and I didn't want to leave. Megugorje is heaven on earth. God bless you

Bye Mary

Name: Kevin Regan
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Westfield Massachusetts
Time: Sunday, December 27, 1998 at 21:14:41
Comments:

GREAT SITE I ENJOYED THE MUSIC AND PIX. I MADE A SIMILAR TRIP LAST YEAR FROM DONEGAL TO GLENNGARRIFF AND THIS SITE SHOWED SOME OF WHAT I MISSED I WILL HAVE TO GO BACK.

Name: Jack Everett
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Washington, DC
Time: Monday, December 28, 1998 at 16:15:33
Comments:

Love the Sligo area and seeing your page makes me miss it a lot.  Thanks.

Name: Bob Maloney
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: New York
Time: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 0:22
Comments:

I visited your web page.  I am from New York in the northern part of the state. My people were named Lavery & Tooey from Cork County Ireland.  I have some cousins there.  I live about 10 miles from the Canadian border. Stay warm, happy new year.

Name: Jeff Kirlin
Website:
Referred by: From ICQ
From: Bangor, Maine  USA
Time: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 at 01:05:13
Comments:

 A wonderful website...you do a wonderful job advocating your area.  If it's as lovely as this site, it must certainly be seen.

Name: Robert Cole
Website:
Referred by: From MoyTura's Letterhead
From: Seattle, Washington and Albuquerque, New Mexico
Time: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 22:56
Comments:

I am supposed to be working, so I have barely browsed this wonderful site, but what I have seen has given me goosebumps...

Name: Richard Langan
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Truckee, California
Time: Thursday, December 31, 1998 17:07
Comments:

Name: Kerry
Website:
Referred by: Another Site Link
From: Shannon Quebec Canada
Time: Saturday, January 2, 1999 at 21:19:44
Comments:

Hello Mary, I am a friend of Paul Christie.  I just thought I would check our your site and
discovered you have been to Quebec City, only 20 miles from me.  Lovely pics of the area.  Did you enjoy Grosse Ile?  I Have been and found it quite amazing.  I guess my name gives away my heritage.  My next trip will be to visit Ireland. Paul promises to help me out with those plans! Lovely pages. Thanks, Kerry

For those who have just joined me on this page why not go to the beginning of our travels and see some of the places in The Start of Our Journey through the West of Ireland. 

My Place Amongst the Stones gives the history of my company name, Moytura - a celtic heritage going back thousands of years. 

We journey to my own parish of Lackagh - a small village just 12 miles from Galway with a mighty big history. Learn all about the Battle of Knockdoe - one of Ireland's bloodiest of conflicts in the 16th century.

We then move on to take a quick jaunt around Galway City; and then to the heart of Connemara - with its wild and wonderful beauty. 

From there we journey south into County Clare and see The Burren - a place that has lain undisturbed since the Ice-age and of immense botanical, ecological and archaeological importance.

Visit Ireland's finest early monastic heritage centre in Clonmacnoise, County Offaly; and to my favourite of all the early Christian Church locations - Clonfert, South County Galway, with its beautiful tiny 12th century Cathedral of Saint Brendan. Come with me around the grounds and see the Bishop's Palace and the 1000 year old Yew Walk. 

While on the Clonfert pages, you can learn a potted history of Saint Brendan the Navigator, possibly the first European to set foot in North America in the 6th. century. And join me in the celebrations when this tiny cathedral was listed in the World Monuments Watch 2000 most endangered monuments.

Come with me on my 'Famine Journey' which starts in Westport, and moves to Sligo, my Dad's County and the departure port for many of the 'Coffin Ships'. This part of my journey ends in Grosse-Île on a tiny island east of Quebec City. 

On this page you will learn some of the history of our Famine Refugees and find the final resting place of over 6,000 of my country folk who died within sight of their first freedom in over 300 years. This is where many of the Irish roots in North America started.

Our Journey moves on to other places on that visit to Canada where we see Quebec City and some of Ontario's lovely places and then to two of Canada's famous Catholic Shrines - Saint Anne de Beaupré and to Cap-de-la-Madeleine.

Finally, join me on my pilgrimage to a peaceful haven in a war-torn country in Medugorje in Bosnia-Hercegovinia. The other areas of my Web site can be found in the drop-down box below.

I have added links pages of other places related to the places we visit, links to leisure activities in Ireland i.e. golf, fishing, horse riding, sailing in Ireland, festivals, entertainment etc. and some of my friends' home pages. 

Don't forget to bookmark this page and return to take up on more of your journeys with me. Oh .. and please sign my Guestbook if you have enjoyed your travels. Go raith míle maith agat - thanks a million

For those of you who are interested in tracing family links contact the Genealogical Society of Ireland