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: Debby Merfuff
From: Wisconsin, USA
E-mail:
Website:
Referred by: From Yahoo Bridge
Time: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 at 11:53:52
Comments:

Hi!  A woman with whom I played bridge at Yahoo referred me to your site.  It's a WONDERFUL site, ta for all your hard work.  I've scads of friends who are verra fond of all things Celtic (as am I), so I will share your site with 'em all.  I appreciate the link to Michael's Ireland site...it's great too!  I hope to play bridge with ya sometime at Yahoo...my ID there is klara8.  I'll be back to visit here, and I'll bring some friends with me!

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Name: Tom Hickey
From: Melbourne, Australia
Website: Irish Australia
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Sunday, March 28, 1999 at 00:08:20
Comments:

I came across your page on Sligo during my rambles around sites vaguely Irish. Compliments from 'down under' - Australia.  My wife is a sligonian, and that's probably what grabbed my attention to your site listing in the first place. Greats site.  Well worth taking the trouble to  visit.

I am setting up a web page related to the influx of  Irish 'transportees' and those simply fleeing the famine, into Australia and their influence on the development of this country. Hence my interest in your coverage of the famine years. If you have no objection I would like to link my finished site to yours as an additional source of info for any interested wanderers. Regards, Tom Hickey.

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Name: Tom & June McMahon
From: Buffalo, New York USA
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Sunday, March 28, 1999 at 12:08:18
Comments:

Enjoyed web page - one of the best we've seen. Music was great. Loads of info. We will be returning in June.

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Name: Gordie
From: Cregmore, Claregalway, Co. Galway
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
Time: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 10:32
Comments:

Well Auntie M, You've done it again.  An excellent site. All the hard work and late nights have paid off.  Good luck in the future and  God Bless.

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Name: GERALDINE COADY     (HURNEY)
From: CREGMORE-BOSTON
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
Time: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 23:57
Comments:

HI MARY YOUR WEB PAGE IS WONDERFUL, DAVID IS THE ONE THAT PUT US ON TO IT. WE WISH YOU ALL THE SUCCESS WITH IT - ALL THE BEST
GER AND PADRAIC COADY

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Name: Graham Url
From: Exminster U.K
Website: Exminster Dot Co 
Referred by: Another Site Link
Time: Thursday, April 1, 1999 at 16:07:58
Comments:

Stunningly beautiful - what more can I say?

Name: Christian Robert
From: France
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Saturday, April 03, 1999 19:13
Comments:

This is one of the most beautiful, best and nicest site we have seen so far - will visit again! Aleady in my favourites.

Name: Johan Van Vooren
From: belgium
Website: Chairman Productions
Referred by: From ICQ
Time: Sunday, April 04, 1999 0:23
Comments:

Greetings from Flanders!  :)

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Name: Barry Shyduke
From: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Website:
Referred by:
Time: Sunday, April 04, 1999 1:18
Comments:

Mary excellent web page - it is so warm and has a lot of feeling.

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Name: Luisa & Davide
From: Italy
Website: Davide's Holiday to Ireland
Referred by: Search Engine
Time: Sunday, April 04, 1999 15:16
Comments:

We are visiting your web page.. We love your beautiful country... Davide went there 3 years ago....Luisa (me) would like to visit soon!! come and see Davide's reportage about his trip in Ireland ..

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