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: Melissa Payne
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Time: Friday, April 14, 2000 2:02
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Name: Steven & Chris Kukin
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Time: Friday, April 14, 2000 2:51
Comments: Reflections for Lent

Thank You for putting in this page with reflections for lent.  Could you please send it to my email address, at: [email protected]. Sincerely. Ckukin

Name: Linda Lewis
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Time: Friday, April 14, 2000 4:15
Comments:  Reflections for Lent

Your site is beautiful, the music peaceful, and the message is nspirational.  It's wonderful to see the internet being used in this way (vs. sex and violence) for a change.  I will pass it on. Thank you.

Name: Terry
From: California
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Time: Friday, April 14, 2000 6:30
Comments: Reflections for Lent

Am enjoying your Lent thoughts. Enjoyed your home and family page. Here is an old Irish blessing someone told me, probably my uncle as a joke -- May you be in Heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead! Thank you for your blessing.

Name: Terri Bylina
From: Bolingbrook, IL 60440
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Time: Saturday, April 15, 2000 1:17
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What are the titles of the beautiful music on the Westport and Sligo Web
Sights?  Where can I purchase them? Your Web sights are terriffic and they bring back wonderful memories of my trip to Ireland last month. Thank you for such wonderful sights!!!!! Terri Rogers Bylina

Name: Anne Morrison
From: Skye
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Time: Monday, April 17, 2000 12:11
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I am SO fed-up!  I've just found this marvellous page so near the end of Lent!  I visited St. Anne de Beaupre last September and was just overwhelmed. I have been trying to get a copy of the prayer which was on a card at the Shrine which referred specifically to the trauma of divorce.  Sadly our elder 
daughter is in the throes of such unhappiness and I would love it if you could email me the prayer if you have it. 

The site is beautiful and I will certainly pass the address on to my friends who I know will just love it.   Our Church here in Skye has a website now and perhaps you would like to have a look at it. 

Its been nice 'talking' to you

Mrs Anne Morrison
(Mother of three married children and Grandmother of seven unmarried grandchildren ranging in age from almost 21 years to just turned 9 years!)

Name: Linda Green
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Time: Monday, April 17, 2000 14:08
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I was sent here by a friend. I am glad she did. I am having a terrible time reading it though because of the dark print on the dark background. I just click on a link and wonder where I am going. Haven't been disappointed. Thanks. =^..^=

Name: Pat Levy
From: Walnut Creek CA (nr San Francisco)
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Time: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 3:18
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Thank you so much for this lovely site!  This is the best info I've found in cyberspace or in travel books.  My husband, myself, my sister, her husband, daughter and our Mother are coming to Ireland in August.  We are bringing my mother for her 80th birthday.  This will be a first trip for my mother, myself and my husband.  My sister and her family visited about 4 years ago.  We are planning on concentrating our visit in West Ireland as that is where our roots most likely are.  My maternal grandmother was Margaret Moran.  My mother remembers a song she used to sing.  Some of the lyrics are:  "For to reap and sow and harrow and to cultivate the land, there isn't a happier Irish boy than Connemara Dan."  "We went down to Portsmouth with my father you must know.  The weeping wives and children were waiting with the rest.  Stick to your mother, Tom, when I am far away."  If you know anything about these lyrics I would appreciate knowing.  I was also looking for the names!
 of the 14 Galway Tribes. 

Again, this is a lovely site.  Thank you.  I hope to hear from you and I am looking forward to our trip to Ireland.

Name: Phyllis
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Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 14:27
Comments: Celtic Blessing Reflections for Lent

Thank-you for the Celtic Blessing.  I sent it to my two daughters today. May  the blessing return to you.  God be with you.  Phyllis1128

Name: Nina Bolling
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Time: Thursday, April 20, 2000 12:37
Comments:  Reflections for Lent

I love the work you have prepared for those of us who truly seek out Jesus on Easter and all through the year.  The composition of scripture, art, inspirational thoughts and music gave me a wonderful inspiration today.  Jesus paid our price for sin me must never forget this.  I pray that your compositions makes a clear connection to the people I sent it to.  May the holy spirit minister to every person that views this sight to convict their heart so that they too will except Jesus Christ as their savior.  I pray in the precious and beautiful name of Jesus.

In Christ, Nina Bolling

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