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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 site 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: Heidi Claudy
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Referred by: Just Cruised On In
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Time: Monday, January 18, 1999 at 13:57:23
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Name: Steve Drake
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Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Bloomington,Indiana
Time: Monday, January 18, 1999 at 15:23:50
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Great looking website, love to visit there someday. Will return to see more. Thanks!  Steve

Name: gumby-418
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Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Minnesota, USA
Time: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 at 13:08:26
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Hi Mary, I played bridge with you on yahoo.  You have a great website, I loved viewing it. You have an amazing talent there -  don't let anyone tell you anything different. Good luck and hope to play with you again sometime soon.

Name: Jim R.
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Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Midlothian, Virginia, USA
Time: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 at 21:15:44
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Took the journey through your beloved homeland and was most impressed. You have touched the heartbeat of your country. The information supplied was exceptional and the scenes inspirational. I have been to Ireland but once and will never never forget the beauty of the country and the friendliness of the people. Thank you for the further insight that you so beautifully put into words.

Name: Jean Bills
Website: Celtic Women International 
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Time: Thursday, January 21, 1999 at 11:36:06
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Pam  Kehoe told me about you. I just sent your membership card to CWI.  This is very interesting!!!!!  I'll write again when I have more time. By the way, I go to Moycullen often to visit the people at Celtic Crystal.  Do you know them?  Nice place.  The owner's name is Mary Munnelly.  Say hi to her for me if you ever drop in.

Name: Mike & Angela Wade
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From: English retired living in Spain
Time: Friday, January 22, 1999 at 16:23:29
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Very nice interesting webpage Mary - have just joined Yahoo bridge & was looking for acol players.  Thanks for sharing it with us.

Name: Bonnie Lackey
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From: Sleepy Hollow, IL USA
Time: Friday, January 22, 1999 at 22:49:43
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I was looking for information on Clonmacnoise and your beautiful web site was suggested by Yahoo.  I have just spent over an hour reading and looking.  Thank you...

Name: Joe Scharbat
Website: North Oak B&B 
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From: Glen Arbor Michigan U S A
Time: Sunday, January 24, 1999 at 18:04:26
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Found you while browsing bit casters list from MIT . Please take some time to look around leelanau.com and see the lovely area we live in. Hope to visit your site again soon. Hope to visit Ireland soon also

Name: Eileen Donohue Estes
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Referred by: From Search Engine
From: Arizona
Time: Sunday, January 24, 1999 at 23:10:43
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Hi.  I enjoyed reading your mini-autobiographical sketch.  I was cruising the net and found the item on your pilgrimage to Medj. [I abbreviate because I'll massacre it otherwise . . . ]. I am Catholic and was looking for pages of interest.  Loved your photos and info.  God bless you.  I'll come back and visit some of your other travelogues sometime soon!  May God, indeed, hold you in the palm of His hand!

Name: Jennifer Bennett
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Referred by: From Search Engine
From: New Zealand
Time: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 at 00:01:49
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Help, I can't use the E-mail facility because of my computer. This site was very helpful though.

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