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: MAUREEN HILLMAN
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: HORSHAM, WEST SUSSEX, ENGLAND
Time: Thursday, October 1, 1998 at 06:35:57
Comments:

I AM VERY INTERESTED IN CLONMACNOISE, MY FAMILY (O'CONNOR) ORIGINATED FROM THAT AREA I HAVE SEVERAL  RELATIVES INCLUDING MY GREAT GRAND PARENTS & GRANDPARENTS AND SEVERAL UNCLES AND AUNTIES ARE BURIED THERE. MY FATHER LEFT HIS HOME VILLAGE OF CLONASCRA TO GO TO ENGLAND HE DIED IN HORSHAM 3 YEARS AGO....

Name: Teresa Comer
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Kent, Washington  USA
Time: Thursday, October 1, 1998 at 18:30:40
Comments:

I recently found out that the way I sound when I talk comes from a longer line of Irishmen/women than I had previously expected. (My mother's parents-both) I enjoyed the general feel and the quality of your words. You have plenty to be proud of and I am glad you choose to share. It was a real treat to experience music with my tour. A first for me.
Thankyou for your time. Good luck to you and yours,
Teresa

Name: Michael Finnegan
Website: History 
Referred by: Just CruisedOn In
From: Dingle Kerry
Time: Thursday, October 1, 1998 at 18:57:19
Comments:

Well designed!
I am interested in world war one. I am working on developing a web site. I have just a one-page demo up. I will be going into the war in detail but I will be telling about it in a very easy to understand way. I intend to include graphics of various important people and battles and places where they were fought. I am interested in Garabandal and Medjugorje and Mrs Gallagher in Mayo

Name: Mary Morwald (Mc Cudden)
Website: I dont have one yet
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Philadelphia via Co Monaghan
Time: Thursday, October 1, 1998 at 22:21:04
Comments:

This was a lovely treat. I have bookmarked your page so I will find you again. I am not sure how I found you in the first place but I will be visiting you again. I am from Ireland and naturally gravitate toward anything from my homeland. My husband (Bill) and I just bought a farm. We are going to name it after the homestead of my birth (Tamlet) in Co Monaghan.I have run a few trips to Ireland. I am always looking for new points of interest. I will close for now.

Yours Thankfully, Mary Morwald

Name: Carl Field
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Melbourne, Australia
Time: Saturday, October 3, 1998 at 07:08:02
Comments:

Your site is fantastic!! I was very much taken in with your personal life and listening to Enya.  I am a Primary School Teacher and I was surfing the net to get some design ideas for my Grade 5 class. We are going to design our own clothes and have a fashion parade infront of the school at the end of term. A HUGE job, but it will be interesting for the childen as most of them do not know how to sew on a button.

I was born in Blackrock, Dublin, but moved to Australia when I was 2. I have been back several times. My aunt (from Dublin) is here visiting and she loves making and designing quilts. We were talking today about finding web sites which could assist her, and that's another reason why I came across your web page.

Best of luck, Carl.

Name: The Jetster
Website: Jetster's Personal Website
Referred by: From MoyTura's Business Card
From: The great country of California, USA
Time: Sunday, October 4, 1998 at 19:33:58
Comments:

testing...testing...the quick brown fox jumped over the moon...testing...testing...okay, i guess its working...here goes..."ladies and gentlemen, followers of the mighty dollar and worshippers of the elastic headband and the velcro shoelace...be it known to you all that my association with Moytura Graphics is both an honor and a pleasure...soooo...give them a shake and I'm sure you will be back to do more business"...signed...The Jetster

Name: Bob Egbert
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Janesville ,Wisconsin USA
Time: Sunday, October 4, 1998 at 21:35:31
Comments:

FROM YOU DEAR THANKS

Name: Rob & Meg
Website: Rob's wURLd   "Best of the Web"
Referred by: Another Site Link
From: Canada
Time: Monday, October 5, 1998 at 20:29:18
Comments:

Wonderful work! congratulations! Meg & I are planning our first trip to Ireland next spring....... can't wait, especially after your tour!.......: ) Rob

Name: Kent Catlin
Website:
Referred by: Just Cruised On In
From: Pendleton, Oregon
Time: Thursday, October 8, 1998 at 16:13:56
Comments:

Your pictures of Sligo made me miss it. I need to go back, to stop the dull ache those pictures put in my heart.

Name: Jim Gray
Website:
Referred by:
From:
Time: Saturday, October 10th, 1998 at 1:29
Comments:

Hi to you all. I long so much to see your country and your web pages gives a hint of what is it like. My Great Grandfather came from Ireland.  We still in the fourth generation hold our family reunion in his sake.  James Lahey was his name and children's children and their children gather each year to be about 150.  A heritage and spirit that will live long in all of us.  Thanks for such a pleasant journey on your web pages. Jim Gray  (James Lahey Gray) Of course there is a lot of English mixed in by now too.

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