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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: John and Julie Coppinger
Website:
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From: Vancouver, BC
Time: Saturday, February 06, 1999 21:56
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Please say hello to the King and Queen of Lackaghbeg, Paddy-Joe and Bridget Coppinger from their nephew.  Very much enjoyed your history of the Battle of Knockdoe. Thanks

Name: Marge & Marty
Website: The Stines Home 
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: PA USA
Time: Sunday, February 7, 1999 at 13:18:21
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Welcome!!! you have a nice page here had a great time viewing will be back again and again to view more and the updates we all do updates never ending.... Thanks again,
Marge & Marty

Name: ROGER E HANLON
Website:
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From: FLORIDA-U S A
Time: Sunday, February 7, 1999 at 22:18:13
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ALWAYS WAS INTRESTED IN WHERE MY PEOPLE CAME FROM. NICE AND EASY MUSIC AND PAGE.

Name: Wilmer Nadjiwon
Website: The Indian Carver 
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From: Tobermory Canada
Time: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 at 22:14:45
Comments:

We had a look at your web sight. You do a really nice job. It was great to see about Tobermory and OURSELVES. We really appreciate it. It really makes all our effort worthwhile when we see what other people think!  Have a look at our web sight , if you have time. www.indiancarver.com  and please stop in again.    Thankyou   Wilmer Nadjiwon

Name: Eileen Gemmell
Website:
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From: Sign Design Ltd., Dublin
Time: Friday, February 12, 1999 at 17:17:34
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Dear Mary, Well Done I will be in touch, Regards Eileen Gemmell.

Name: Kathy Thomas
Website: don't have one yet
Referred by: From Search Engine
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Time: Monday, February 15, 1999 at 14:00:46
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I have been to Medugorje twice and carry those memories in my heart always. The people of Podbrdo are some of the lovliest people I'v ever met. We were able to visit briefly with some of the refugees from the war, my heart went out to those people. Through all they've been through they still have their faith which keeps them going. Our group went up Apprition Hill together and just before leaving we sang The Divine Mercy Chaplet, while doing so one person in our group had their rosary change to GOLD, crucifix and all. What an awsome experience.

Name: Bob Blondel
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: USA
Time: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 6:33
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Been a while since I visited your page, and thinking of a pleasant evening in the hotel at Cong reminded me of Moytura and hence back to moytura.com. That night, the hotelier asked me if I'd like a wake up call. As part of my trip was to do photography, I said 'Yes! About five fifteen should do it!'  The poor fellow nearly had a fit. But I was up and off to my peninsula near Cornamona just in time to catch the sunrise. I fear I left Cong all snug in their beds.

Thought oddly from the tone of your site and the locale that we'd met. Five years ago I ate supper in the Boat in Oughterard and spent some time discussing the Web with a woman I met there. But she was a brunette. Got any competition up that way?

I like the musical MIDI touches. They're not too Irish - Clancy Brothers - but just enough to set the atmosphere. The very low tones on one harp piece, though, probably won't do too well on the small speakers found on most PC's. (sez an aspiring harp builder, then someday harper. I won't be able to build so grand an instrument as to have that LOW C)

When I get my greasy fingers on a scanner, I'll send you off a Galway Bay sunset and a partly cloudy afternoon on the Leenane Westport road somewhere near Moher Lough. I can still see that day in my mind's eye. Perhaps you might find them of use as my gift to your lovely site.

Now where did I put my passport? Spring's coming and it's time to travel before all the Americans get to Ireland! All best,

Name: Darvis McCoy
Website:
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From: : California
Time: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 at 07:01:03
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Hello Mary, this is your old friend, Darvis. I'm visiting your website again in preparation for bringing my daughter to Ireland in April of 2000. I want to show her Clonmacnoise, among many other places.  Your website is so very informative.  Thanks for all the info.

Name: Kathy Atherton
Website:
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From: South Boston, MA     US
Time: Friday, February 19, 1999 at 14:11:31
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 I was searching for links to Medugorje and came across you page. I really enjoyed it; especially some of the places you visited in Canada. When I was a girl, my family would go on pilgrimage to Cape de Madeleine; St. Anne de Beaupre and Montreal. I remember some of the spots noted in your pictures. I am a former art teacher working for the City of Boston. I miss my previous work. I'm married but was a former Sister of Charity. Your web site is easy to use and very well designed. My own journey is bringing me closer to my roots of faith once again. I would love to communicate with you further. I think we would have a lot in common.

Name:
Website: Anastasia O'Melveny, TSSF
Referred by: Someone Sent URL
From: Boston, Massachusetts
Time: Saturday, February 20, 1999 at 10:24:04
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The url was on one of the Franciscan Lists. Your site is beautiful. I hope to visit St. Anne's Basilica some day. I especially love the song that plays on your front page for the basilica. Is that a tape that can be purchased or did someone write that music for your site? I am Irish as you can see from my name.  I look forward to visiting your site again.

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