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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: Anthony Conway
From: UK
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Time: Thursday, July 15, 1999 13:14
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Thank you for your prayerful thoughts - I read the story of the Praying Hands.

God Bless

Name: Steve Connelly
From: Terre Haute, Indiana
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Time: Sunday, July 18, 1999 at 13:22:26
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Your photographs are excellent.  Sligo and Galway are two of my favorite places in Ireland, and your pictures were evocative.  When you visit Sligo do you go to Michael Quirke's shop on Wine Street?  He is a wood carver, and he is also a wonderful source of myths, legends, and place lore. He is at the heart of the heart of Sligo!

Name: wolfe
From: USA

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Time: Monday, July 19, 1999 0:34
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We're coming to visit Ireland next monthand was looking for information.  What a delightful find!  Love your music backgrounds and the information you've given.  Thank you!

Name: Noromance
From: Ireland
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Time: Friday, July 23, 1999 21:27

Very impressive and emotional site -it almost made me cry...such a labor of love. Downside? A mite bit over the top on the God end of things.

Name:  peter j kelly
From: NY, clonfoundlough
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Time: Friday, July 23, 1999 at 22:28:24
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Name: John Shea
From: Brookline, MA, USA
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Time: Friday, July 23, 1999 at 22:58:59
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Looking forward to visiting your part of Ireland in the not too distant future.  I'll have to come back when I have more time.

Name: Richard O'Connell
From: Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
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Time: Sunday, July 25, 1999 at 20:35:00
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How could I miss out on a visit to a site named Moytura! And then to be greeted with "The Sun in the Stream" which I play on flute myself! Best of luck! Rich

Name: Jim Downs
From: Chicago USA
Website: Connamara Systems 
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Time: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 at 16:15:57
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I enjoyed the poems and stories very much! Thanks!!!

Name: Joan Burchell
From: Eastern Ontario, Canada
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Time: July 30, 1999 at 11:06:43
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What a joyous journey to the original home of my great-great grandparents. I will visit over and over again - the next-best thing to being there. Thank you. It was magical. Will you ever do Fermanagh County, around Enniskillen?
Joan

Name: Shelia Anderson
From: Texas
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Website: PencilPusher's Inspirational Page
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Time: Saturday, July 31, 1999 at 04:56:13
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Thanks for sharing a bit of yourself and your journeys.  Many blessings to you.  Shelia (aka PencilPusher)

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