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: William Holden
From: Austin, Texas
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 16:41
Comments:

Your site is really beautiful and the music is wonderful.  I'm in the process of trying to locate some of my family born in Ireland.  I'm not sure where but a couple of clues lead me to believe they came from Co. Clare and possibly the city of Castletown.  I have UHF searching for me. I'm looking for a great uncle James Holden, b. 1835 to John and Mary Long Holden.

Name: Marc Lindsey
From: Jacksonville, Florida
Website:
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Time: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 1:18
Comments:

Beautiful website!  As a young man of 18 I visited the Shrines of St. Anne de Baupre and Cap de la Madelaine.  Your pages on these Shrines brought back many memories.

Name: F Forde
From: Buckingham UK
Website:
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Time: Friday, May 21, 1999 22:31
Comments:

 As I am from Sligo I found the site very interesting

Name: Ron Wells
From: Sioux Lookout Canada
Website:
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Time: Saturday, May 22, 1999 15:11
Comments:

I found your site very interesting. I enjoyed the music playing will I read.  I have not got so far as to have developed any URl of my own.  Talk again later,

Name: Kristy
From: Ohio,USA
Website:
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Time: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 1:29
Comments:

Hi

Name: Michael Kelly
From: Oregon
Website: Midnight Community - A place made for friends   
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Thursday, May 27, 1999 21:28
Comments:

 I am a 36 year old married male always looking for new freinds!  I like most things and I am a part time soldier.  If you stop by my site be sure to read the Ranger history and Play Tail Gunner online!

Name: BILL SCANLON
From: ESPERANCE   WEST AUSRALIA
Website:
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Time: Saturday, June 05, 1999 12:24
Comments:

VERY WELL DONE,  A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT

Name: Deborah
From: Grand Manan Island, NB, Canada
Website: Deborah's Home 
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Time: Sunday, June 06, 1999 23:18
Comments:

I have just had a wonderful visit at your beautiful site! I have never been to Ireland but hope to go there someday. Two of my former students worked in Galway for a few months last year and loved it there. Congratulations - I have bookmarked this site and will be back.

Name: Ciaran Molloy
From: UK
Website:
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Time: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 23:02
Comments:

Clonmacnoise, the seven churches.   When I was a boy I enjoyed playing on the stones of the monastic settlement...often berrated by my grandfather.....the magic of the site still exists for me.

Pass on my regards to Tom Moore.

Name: A. W. Judge
From: USA
Website:
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Time: Wednesday June 9th. at 13:34:27
Comments:

Truly enjoy reading of your site...shall return often...just left Medugorje this AM. See ya' ... again .. again .. again .. GREAT

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