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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: Mary and Joseph Duffy
From: Brighton, MA USA
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:59
Comments:

I was searching the Galway site and found this Joe is from Grange , the son of Tommy and Chrissy Duffy , We live in Boston this is a great way to see Turloughmore

Name:  Gerard Naughton
From: Lisheenavalla
Website:
Referred by: From PowWow
Time: Sunday, April 30, 2000 23:57
Comments:

 Mary
Congrats on the site,youve put us on the map.I have put together records from Lackagh/Claregalway Birth Marriage/Death/Census heading for 5000 if any of your visitors need info. Gerard

Name: Danny
From: England
Website: Daniel Peters Interiors
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Monday, May 01, 2000 15:10
Comments:

What an absolutely superb site best.Best wishes to you

Name: Frances Ann Onipede nee Murray
From: USA
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
Time: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 23:11
Comments:

ovely site. I shall come back often. I plan to visit Dublin and Galway June 1st to 7th. I wish you all the best and God's blessings.

Name: Robert J. Lohr
From: Hellertown, PA, USA 
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 14:16
Comments:

My wife, Maryann, and I are Americans living in Hellertown, Pennsylvania (eastern part of the State about 50 miles north of Philadelphia.  We have a lovely vacation home in Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo and that is how I found your fascinating website ...looking for news of the Sligo area. Bob Lohr

Name: Marygertrude Kirsch
From: Airvillr, PA. USA
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Thursday, May 11, 2000 at 08:14:10
Comments:

Found site from reply from Mary  to an e-mail. I love it  particularly Where's God. Also the music is excellent and approprate to  the different sections. Have saved website. Way to go, Marygertrude Kirsch

Name: Earl Hearty
From: Espanola  Ont
Website:
Referred by: Search Engine
Time: Friday, May 12, 2000 0:22
Comments:

I was looking for reletives for family tree  and I saw a pprogramme on tv about this island (Grosse-Ile)

Name: AOIFE
From: OUTSIDE LACKAGH
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Friday, May 12, 2000 20:33
Comments:

 I THINKS ITS BRILLIANT THAT THEY WANT TO DIG UP THEIR ROOTS AND FIND THEIR HISTORY

Name: DENISE
From: OUTSIDE LACKAGH
Website:
Referred by: From Search Engine
Time: Friday, May 12, 2000 20:36
Comments:

I THINK IT IS BRILLIANT THAT PEOPLE WANT TO DIG UP THEIR ROOTS AND FIND OUT THEIR HISTORY

Name: Claire Vernell
From: Hubbard Ohio USA
Website:
Referred by: From MoyTura's Letterhead 
Time: Friday, May 12, 2000 22:13
Comments:

I certainly enjoy reading all that you write, Moytura. My greatgrandparents lived in an old schoolhouse called Cahersherkin, in the west of Ireland. I have never gotten to come to ireland, nor has my Mom, and she has been gone a long  while now. I have not given up hope of someday stepping onto Emerald Isle. I would love to corresond with some Irish ladies in their 50's or so.
Keep up the good work, and God bless!

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