Irish Midlands Ancestry

43-44 Grand Canal Townlands East to West: Kilgortin/Killina/ Loughroe No 43-43 in the Grand Canal Offaly Series by Offaly History Kilgortin is in the Electoral Division of Rahan, in Civil Parish of Rahan, this parish is situated in the ancient O’Molloy territory of Fear Ceall meaning the mem of the woods or men of the churche…

39 Charles Coote on the rural landscape in 1800 as the canal was completed as far as Tullamore. No 39 in the Grand Canal Offaly series The Grand Canal reached Daingean in 1797. The changing landscape along the route of the new canal from Edenderry at its survey in 1800. Sir Charles Coote describes Philipstown /Daingean in No. 33 i…

24 Some old photographs of the Grand Canal: the Shackleton photographs of Tullamore and West Offaly in the 1890s. No 24 in the Grand Canal Offaly Series. By Offaly History Jane W. Shackleton’s Ireland compiled by Christiaan Corlett (Cork, 2012) is an attractive large format publication was issued by Collins Press and consists of 180 well produced photographs by Jane …

The Irish Mist Figurine/ Soldier. By John Flanagan This week we provide an extract from the book to be published in November 2023 on Irish Mist Liqueur, a unique Tullamore-based product for almost forty years. Many homes have the Irish Mist Soldier…

Caitlín Kingston Brugha (1879–1959). By Deirdre Stuart We are drawing to the end of a period of remembrance and reflection on the events that took place during the period 1912–1923 and the emergence of the Irish state as we know it today. These commemo…