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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: Michael O. Daly
  Website: Welcome
  Referred by: Word of Mouth
  From: Eagle Lake, Minnesota, USA
  Time: 1998-07-11 04:30:48
  Comments:

 Mary, you've done yourself proud with this effort. I am honored to be on your friends page. We look forward to hearing from many of your friends. Here’s to many chats in the future. Peace.

Your page is great, makes me want to come to your beautiful country even more now, really enjoyed it. I might add also, you are very pretty, great picture of yourself. Take care see ya later.

  Name: CD
  Website:
  Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
  From: Modesto, California USA
  Time: 1998-07-16 22:25:58
  Comments:

 Very, very nice.....

 Name: Vince Deehan
 Websites: Vince Deehan's Home Page  &  Movie Reviews by Vince
 Refered by: Just Surfed On In
 From: Wembley, London
 Time: July 26th. 1998; 22:19
 Comments:

 Hi,

 I was searching for web pages on The Burren and I came across your web page. I was most impressed. You don't say where you live exactly (for obvious reasons) but I thought I'd take a stab in the dark and ask is it Athenry ?  I only say that because my Uncle and his family live there!

 I liked what you said about people telling you that you are English when you feel you are Irish. I am born and bred in London to Irish parents (Dad is from Lough Talt in Sligo and Mum is from Listowel in Kerry), but I always like to tell people (if they ask) that I'm Irish. Most people seem to agree, even if my Dad tells me I'm English !

 I love Enya and was delighted to hear her music on each page. Nice touch with the volume controls, which allowed me to turn  the sound off when I chose to. I hate web pages that force you to listen to music ! Well done there ! I was keen to view your guestbook but the link you gave only led to the main guestbook web page and not your actual guestbook.  I'm sure you'll be able to fix that ! I have a web page of my own which is very pitiful when compared to yours, but you might like to have a gander - if only to realise what a stunning job you've done on your own pages! I may have missed it, but unless I'm mistaken there is no clue as to what your name is, on your page !  Good luck to you and keep up the good work !

 Name: Pat  and Bridget Kiely
 Website: After seeing yours, I'm thinking about it.
 Referred by: Just Cruised On In
 From: Lismore, Co.Waterford, Ireland...of course!
 Time: Monday, July 27, 1998 at 20:56:11
 Comments:

 Hi,

 Great page,  Great pictures, and Medjogorje ..beyond description. Great place, even during the war when I took medicines to Mostar, and walked the year before in the peace march, and the year before that when I took six lost teenagers, and the year before that when I visited the first time (1990) and thought I'm not going to visit here again - it was so good I dont want to spoil the memory. And now after seeing your page I'm homesick, not for Birmingham where I was born (like you)  or London where I lived before Lismore, but for Medj. where you dont choose to visit, but SHE does. God bless, from Pat, and Bridget (who only visited Medg. Once in 1989.)

 Name: Peter Doherty
 Website:
 Referred by: Just Cruised On In
 From: Coleraine,Co Derry
 Time: Saturday, August 1, 1998 at 09:06:50
 Comments:

 Great site

 Name: Clara Bigold
 Website:
 Referred by: Someone Sent URL
 From: Honolulu, Hawaii
 Time: Monday, August 03, 1998 5:16
 Comments:

 I found this site to be very enlightening. You're a very accomplished self-made woman blessed with a beautiful family. Your granddaughter, Kelley, is adorable. Thank you for taking the time to share life's precious moments.

 Name: Aine Chambers
 Website:
 Referred by: Just Cruised On In
 From: Sligo, West of Ireland.
 Time: Tuesday, August 4, 1998 at 20:47:11
 Comments:

 Mary, I just love your pages! I very much enjoyed it! Your stories are great and your pics. too. One of the (if not the) best sites I have come across - please keep up the good work.

 Name: Anne MacDonald Coleman
 Website: Visions of Albion- a Bard's-eye View of Britain
 Referred by: Just Cruised On In
 From: Glasgow originally, now Southampton
 Time: Saturday, August 8, 1998 at 07:22:22
 Comments:
  Hello there Mary! Just dropped by to say Failte do LOTH! Come and pick up a gift from me on my LOTH pages. Anne

 Name: Sue Fellows
 Website: Sue's Pages 
 Referred by: Just Cruised On In
 From: ENGLAND
 Time: Sunday, August 9, 1998 at 20:49:53
 Comments:

 Just dropped by to say hello to a LOTH sister. Beautiful site. Will visit often.

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