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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: David
From: Manchester UK
Website:
Referred by: Someone Sent URL
Time: Friday, June 11, 1999 0:37
Comments:

Cool site Mary - keep up the good work - Galway Here I Come !!!

Just came across your site while searching for information on my great grandgrandmother who came from Tuam in Galway. I haven't had a chance to read all of it but have added it to my favourites list and will come back to it. I feel drawn to Ireland and hope one day to visit as we still have a cousin living in Peake, Barnaderg on the original family land where my great grandmother was born. I also found the pages on Medugorje very interesting as my Nanna visited there with a group from her church a few years back. Congratulations on a wonderful site, lovely to read about your family and yourself.

Name: Simone Carneiro (Seaweed)
From: Brazil
Website:
Referred by: ?: From MoyTura's Letterhead
Time: Sunday, June 13, 1999 18:47
Comments:

Heavens, what a trip through the St.Lawrence, Ste Anne and Québec!! I was there four years ago...and loved. More than that, had revelations, bliss...bliss...bliss... Great page! I'm just a Brazilian dreamer, mystic and voyager who LOVED this page and wanted to tell you  that. Shall come again, for sure! Rainbowbright Hugs, Seaweed

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Name: John Pearson
From: Everett, Wa., USA
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 20:26
Comments:

Browsing, found your interesting Irish web site and would like to know if you have any information on any O'Halloran families who lived in Galway city, eastern Co. Galway; Ballyvaughan or elsewhere in Clare Co? Am fascinated by the interesting Irish web sites that I continue to find. 

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Name: Kevin J. Wright
From: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Website: Catholic Shrines of Europe 
Referred by: From a search engine
Time: Thursday, June 17, 1999 3:43
Comments:

Name: John and Linda MacDonald
From: Goderich Ontario, Canada
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Sunday, June 20, 1999 5:11
Comments:

Hi Mary:
Sure enjoyed your home page and history of Ireland, you have done an excellent and very intersting profile of places you have seen and been. I have had a real tour of Ireland and other intersting places. We live about an hours drive  south west of Hanover Ontario.
I found your page while researching some info for a friend of mine about grosse ile. She had family buried there, and while my friend and I were talking we found out we were related, what a surprise as we had worked together for many years in the same hospital and never knew we were related. Her great grandmother was Margaret Mallough and my great, great, grandfather was William Mallough who was a brother of Margaret. William founded Dungannon Ontario, Canada, what a small world.
I wish you all the luck and success in your journey of life and hope to hear from you sometime. God Bless and take care. John and Linda.

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Name: Jean Mitchell
From: Virginia in the United states
Website: The Philosophy Page
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time:  Monday, June 21, 1999 18:20
Comments:

I love your website, I have been so interested in Lourdes and Medjorigie.  You did a wonderful Job!

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Name: Pam Kehoe
From: Wisconsin
Website:
Referred by: From MoyTura's Letterhead
Time: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 4:41
Comments:

Mary, It's hard to believe a year has passed.  Your page has grown and so has our friendship.  I'm looking forward to the 'races'. :)  What fun. I love your thoughtful thoughts page.  It's wonderful. see you soon.
Pam

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Name: Jim Maglio
From: Clearwater, Florida
Website:
Referred by: From SearchEngine
Time: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 19:10
Comments:

Vistied Galway for the fourth time last month.  Stayed with cousins in Dangan Heights.  Martin Quinn, cousin, elected to city council.  Great crack while there. Folks and family in Ireland are the greatest.   My mother's family were Casey's from Mitchelstown. My wife's mother was a Reardon from Galway City.

Name: Maurice Walsh
From: USA
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 16:49
Comments:

Couldn't access you through your 'guest book' so decided to email you.  Just wanted to thank you for all the wonderful information contained in your website.  We'll be visiting Galway in August and you have given us very helpful information and great ideas for sightseeing.  Thanks - The Walshes

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