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: Katie O'
From: Pittsburgh Pa.
Website:
Referred by: From MoyTura's Letterhead
Time: Monday, August 2, 1999 at 22:46:36
Comments:
Country:
Lovely !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Name: Lisa Sawatsky
From: Victoria, B.C.  Canada
Website:
Referred by: From MoyTura's Letterhead
Time: Thursday, August 5, 1999 at 14:35:23
Comments::

I thoroughly enjoyed your website, my husband myself and our 3 children are thinking of re-locating to Galway and I would love it if you could email me some more info...rental accomodation, job availability, etc. Thanks,  I look forward to your reply. Lisa

Name: Dr. Bill
From:
Website: The Irishman's Web Designs
URL: http://www.wtvl.net/irishman
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Time: Friday, August 06, 1999 17:28
Comments:

Failte; I was very impressed with your site. It does this Irish heart good to see someone of your obvious talent doing well on the web. I myself have just begun building web sites in the UK and Ireland. After nearly five years of coding HTML by hand. Good luck -Bill

Name: Angharad
From: Idaho
Website:
Referred by: Another Site Link
Time: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 at 14:04:16
Comments:

 Love the music...your pages are quite special. Best wishes for continued success.

Name: Jim
From: Tiverton, R.I.   U. S. A.
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
Time: Saturday, August 14, 1999 at 13:30:59
Comments:

I am totally trans-fixed by these pages. Seeing the Shrine in Canada years ago always stayed with me. I just began attending Mass at the so much smaller shrine in Fall River, Mass. I am so glued to this shrine, I could not begin to explain. Thank you for these pages. They will be kept and honored as long as I live

Name: Simon Baillie
From: Cardiff, Wales
Website:
URL: http://members.icq.com/45093725
Referred by: From ICQ
Time: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 at 23:34:07
Comments:

Site is just like me  - Perfect!!!

Name: Pirjo Alatalo
From: Tornio, Lapland, Finland
Website:
Referred by: Someone Sent URL
Time: Thursday, August 19, 1999 at 11:52:22
Comments:

Dear Mary,
I really enjoyed reading your homepage. It must have been one of the best individual homepages I have ever read. Having had a chance to meet you, even very briefly, I think you managed to create it a "lookalike" with yourself. You really have the talent to write. By reading your homepage I had an opportunity to "meet the rest of the Gang". I'm sure you are proud to have such a family; I personally was blessed by one child only, but that is something we just have to accept. I wish you all the best with your endeavours, personally and professionally.

Name: Rosalie Ferris
From: Ware, Massachusetts
Website:
Referred by: Another Link
Time: Friday, August 20, 1999 15:58
Comments:

Your page is beautiful! I have a question about your information on the Notre-Dame church.....where did you find this information....I'm trying to verify where exactly my ancestor married...............was the big cathedral at one time known as Immaculate Conception? Do you know which church was? Any leads would be gratefully appreciated!!!!

Name: Bishop Neil and Gerlinde Jones
From: British Columbia, CANADA
Website: "St David's Celtic Church of Canada"
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Time: Sunday, August 22, 1999 17:32
Comments:

Dear Friend,

What an excellent web page you have, Gerlinde and I really enjoyed spending time there.It took me back home, in my thoughts...to "just a few miles away" from you...Cardiff, Wales. Gerlinde is from Heidelberg, Germany. We reached your web site via "Northern Horizons" (Rob O'Gorman's web page). Maybe you would like to see our web site which is about Celtic Christianity: We also have the same award as you..."Nancy's Celtic Award"(1999) Would you like to link up with us and we link up with you ? God be with you, Bishop Neil and Gerlinde

Name: Jack Speight
From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Website:
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Time: Friday, August 27, 1999 4:30
Comments:

Hello. Your site is very enjoyable and the music is great. I enjoyed the journey through the stones very much.The history of Ireland has interested me very much. Apparently one of my ancestors once occupied Derry castle near Potroe on Lough Derg[near Nenagh].In a few years I hope to visit the west coast of Ireland, in particular Tipperary and Clare.Thanks for making such an enjoyable website.

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