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: Jed Gillin
Website: Jed's Page
Referred by: Just cruised on in.
From: Hollywood, California, USA.
Time:  Monday, August 10, 1998 9:16
Comments:

Thanks ,  your page was very educational for me. I am a third generation American whose ancestors come from the Loch Gill area near Sligo. Fascinating. I hope to visit someday.

Name: Mary M. Haney
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Detroit Lakes, Minnesota USA
Time: Monday, August 10, 1998 at 10:43:09
Comments:

Found your site by accident while looking for information on the name "Lally", my mother's maiden name. Great site, very informative and fun!  Thanks for the tour.

Name: dragonfly_7 (Gloria)
Website: Dragonfly's Place 
Referred by: Another Site Link
From: England
Time: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 at 12:50:44
Comments:

Hi LOTH sis, I was just surfing the UK and Ireland pages, and arrived here and thought your pages were lovely..  Your country sure is beautiful, so mystical and beautiful.  Those Stones are really something, I love everything ancient. I met up with some Yew trees a few weeks ago that are supposed to be 2,000 years old.  Always wanted to visit but due to the problems we have in our cultures, I never did.  I've lived in the States for 17 years, been back a year, and I've been looking at Standing Stones and circles.  You have some wonderful ones near you don't you.  Lucky Lady.  Hopefully we'll meet each other at a get together one day soon.  Blessings Gloria

Name: Joseph Lake
Website:
Referred by: Just cruised on in.
From: Hanover, Pennsylvania,  USA
Time: Wednesday, August 12th. 1998, 3:42
Comments:

Hello, I like the design of your homepage and wanted to let you know that it was viewed from this location. I had just found that my great-great grandparents came from Sligo, Ireland. With this, I had to jump onto the internet and find out as much as possible about it. Can you tell me if the names Hannon and Liamon are rare or common in that area of Ireland? They left that area about the middle 1800's.
Thank you, Joseph Lake

Name: Peter J. Gillen
Website: Peter's Place
Referred by: Another Site Link
From: Los Angeles CA Via Rosses Point Co Sligo
Time: Thursday, August 13, 1998 at 23:06:28
Comments:

Terrific site....keep up the good work

Name: Gini
Website: Princess Gini's Universe 
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Belgium
Time: Friday, August 21, 1998 at 23:39:28
Comments:

What a beautiful site you have Dear Sis.  I enjoyed my visit a lot !

Name: Joanna Clark
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Gorman, Texas U.S.A.
Time: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 at 12:51:27
Comments:

Enjoyed the tour! Would love to see some of the Irish language in common phrases posted about.

Name: Geraldine Curtis
Website:
Referred by: Another Site Link
From: London, England
Time: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 at 07:56:32
Comments:

Actually looking for sites to research early 20th C Irish history but like getting sidetracked! Elegantly designed - like the pictures!

Name: Martin Hession
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Kiltrogue, Claregalway, Co. Galway
Time: Friday, August 28, 1998 at 03:40:07
Comments:

I was very proud to see my parish on the web. I surf the web from time to time and I have to say this web site was presented very well. I am certain that Mary Mullins will be a huge success.

Very best of luck!!

Name: Danny Murray
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Dublin
Time: Sunday, August 30, 1998 at 06:31:16
Comments:

Hi, Your site is excellent, I like the music. I am trying to find out more about the Doolough tragedy, can you point me in the right direction.

Regards, Danny Murray

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