Moytura's Irish
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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: Sue Roddy
From: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
Time: Saturday, March 6, 1999 at 19:52:47
Comments:

This is a wonderful web site!  We found it while doing genealogical research on our Irish ancestors. Your Grosse Ile section was great.  I hope to go there this summer. Reading about your travels put a smile on my face! Again, great web site!

Name: AOIFE KEEGAN
From: DUBLIN
Website:
Referred by: From MoyTura's Business Card
Time: Sunday, March 7, 1999 at 13:10:44
Comments:

YOUR PAGE IS GREAT. I FOUND OUT LOTS ABOUT CLONMACNOISE. YOURS THANKFULLY,
AOIFE.

Name: Steven D. Leising
From: Sacramento, California
Website:
Referred by: From ICQ
Time: Monday, March 8, 1999 at 21:01:26
Comments:

Hi, I talked with you on ICQ today and you you referred me to this URL. It was very beautiful. Like looking at a piece of Home. Thank you for the wonderful tour. Steve,

Name: Solange Noelle
From: San Francisco, California
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 at 14:38:42
Comments:

 Hi Mary,

I stumbled onto your site looking for Irish language resources, and just wanted to tell you what a lovely site it is. I came to Ireland for the first time last fall and fell into a really great house in Galway, where I stayed for two months--though I was only supposed to stay in Ireland for two weeks! Looking at your website has made me homesick for my home-away-from-home, where my grandfather's parents were from. Thanks for the photos and the eminently readable copy. I really enjoyed myself! Cheers!

Name: Karen Rocha
From: Kansas City, Kansas USA
Website:
Referred by: Search Engine
Time: Friday, March 12, 1999 21:41
Comments:

Hello!

I happened on to your web site when i was looking for a source to buy Stations of the Cross from. My husband and I recently purchased 6 acres of land here in Kansas, where we are planning on building a house eventually. The land is all wooded and I thought it would be neat to establish a "Stations of the Cross" trail through the woods. I am searching for a set of new or "used" Stations to install on this property.

Anyway, I was searching for "Stations of the Cross" with one of the search engines and saw your site. It immediately caught my attention because I have been to Medjugorje also! Your site is just beautiful and one of the most wonderful tributes to Medjugorje that I have seen! Your work must surely be pleasing to Our Lady and her Son!!

What also caught my eye is your IRISH heritage. My maiden name is O'Connell. My father, John Patrick O'Connell is very involved in the Irish community in our town and in supporting efforts to bring peace to all Ireland. This year, he has been chosen to be the Grand Marshall of our St. Patrick's Day parade. This is a big honor here in America.

Well, Greetings to you and your family and Thank You for creating such a beautiful web site and sharing yourself with the rest of the world. May your work inspire others to seek the goodness of Our Lord and may he bless you each day more and more. Peace, Karen Rocha

Name: George Monroe
From: Sidney, NY USA
Website:
Referred by: From PowWow
Time:
Comments:

I thought you had a very nice home page. It was different to what I am seeing over here in the USA. Thank you for letting me sign your guestbook.

Name: Debra Blose
From: Jamestown,New York
Website:
Referred by: From Yahoo Bridge
Time: Friday, March 19, 1999 at 18:41:16
Comments:

Beautiful job. There is so much more to Ireland then anyone knows.  Hope to see more.

Name: Ian Devaney
From: USA via Sligo
Website:
Referred by: Excite Talk
Time: Friday, March 19, 1999 23:59
Comments:

I just visited your site, very well done. I was just talking to you on the chat line - the guy from Sligo. Take care & good luck.

Name: Pauline McDonagh
From: Carraroe  Galway
Website:
Referred by: From SearchEngine
Time: Saturday, March 20, 1999 18:08
Comments:

I have found your site interesting so far, but I am only new to the internet and I am planning on viewing the rest of your site in great depth

Name: Ed & Gail McCowan
From: USA
Website:
Referred by: Search Engines
Time: Monday, March 22, 1999 6:08
Comments:

I spent the day at a horse show, came home exhausted, but intending to look up andulusian stallions.  Somehow, I went from there to ancient Ireland and surfed into your site.  My sister and I are tracking our family members from Ireland (Wallace & Butler of Kilkenny).  Your site was refreshing and wonderful, the music is divine.  Thank you from the west coast of the United States.

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