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Note: Page: 13 Name: James Conway Birth Date: 1795 Death Date: 08 Jun 1882 Cemetery: St. Johns Town: Emmetsburg At 11:22 AM 2/8/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hi, Matt! I was glad to hear from you! I'm mailing off some stuff to you today. ================ DEB - 12:10 noon Today, Tues Feb 12, '02 - received your packet of copies. They exactly match and authenticate the date u sent me back in October. Very nice work. Deb comes thru again with more data on the grand old lady and our ancestor - {Sarah] Alice Dunne, aka Alley [sp] Debbies findings: James Conway m. Ally Dunne 1 Mar 1824 of Rameen John [their son] born19 Dec. 1824 of Tulleroan. [ Fertility not in ? here ] From the www - Matt finds this supplementary data...where we find the name of Tulleroan prominently spelled out...TullAroan. And, next comes the Townland of Rameen - same spelling. [Matt finds that in the Parish of Tullaroan [1851] there is a townland of 222 acres named Remeen [sp. Remeen] in Diocese Ossory ] Griffith's Valuation - 1848-1864 would be to late in time to list our Jas. Conway, who left Ireland c. 1827... FRESHFORD http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/KIK/Freshford/ "Freshford", or Aghoura, a post-town and parish, in the barony of Cranagh, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 6 1/2 miles (W. N. W.) from Kilkenny, and 63 (S.W.) from Dublin, on the road from Kilkenny to Johnstown; containing 2277 inhabitants. This place, anciently called Aghoure or Achadhur, signifying the "green ford," was the site of an abbey founded about the commencement of the 7th century, by St. Lactan, who was its first abbot. The parish comprises 2108 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act: there is no bog or wasteland. The principal seats are Upperwood, Balleen Castle, Kilrush. The town, which comprises 374 houses, is neat and well-built, and is part of the estate of William De Montmorency, Esq. It is a station of the revenue and of the constabulary police. Here is a dispensary, a fever hospital, and a society for relieving the bedridden poor. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, episcopally united to the parishes of Clomanto, Kilrush, Clashacrow, Rathbeagh, Tubridbritain, Sheefin, Clontubrid, and Coolcashin, which together form the union of Freshford and the corps of the prebend of Aghoure (anciently called the Golden Prebend") in the cathedral of Kilkenny. The first six parishes are in the patronage of the Bishop, and the remaining three in that of the Dean and Chapter. The glebe-house is in Clashacrow. The church was built in 1730, and has a fine Norman porch with the date 1133. In the R. C. divisions the parish is the head of a union or district, comprising Freshford, Tullaroan, Ballynamara, Clashacrow, Ballylarkin, and parts of Odogh, Burnchurch and Clomanto, in which district is a chapel at Freshford, one at Odogh, and one at Tullaroan. There is a parochial school, and there is a national school adjoining the R. C. chapel. About 300 children are educated in these schools, and about 60 in two private schools, exclusive of those taught in a Sunday school. Near Kilrush are the ruins of Ballylarkin castle, once the seat of the Shortall family. [From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)] Church Records Civil Parish: Freshford. RC Parish: Freshford. Freshford - Earliest Records: b. Jan 1773; m. Aug 1775. Cross reference to Family History Library microfilm (double-check with the Library) Civil Roman Catholic Time FHLC parish parish period number Freshford Freshford 1773-1880 0926192 Note: Tullaroan was later split as a separate R. C. Parish, and Freshford extended into parts of former Balyragget R. C. Parish. Historical Geography Townlands (1851) Parish Townland Acres Diocese Freshford Ballyroe 171 Ossory Freshford Baunaniska 242 Ossory Freshford Bawntanameenagh 110 Ossory Freshford Boherkyle 44 Ossory Freshford Clintstown 232 Ossory Freshford Crowhill 216 Ossory Freshford Curraghduff 77 Ossory Freshford Freshford 97 Ossory Freshford Freshford Lots 66 Ossory Freshford Inchmore 21 Ossory Freshford Knockown 96 Ossory Freshford Moat 140 Ossory Freshford Monabrika 150 Ossory Freshford Tobernapeastia 219 Ossory Freshford Upperwood Demesne 283 Ossory Edited by Dennis Walsh, last updated 12 Apr 1999 ---End of Site---Matt TULLAROAN http://www.iol.ie/~colbrid/fourth_yrs/tullaro.htm Tullaroan is situated about ten miles north from the city of Kilkenny and eight miles from Callan. It consists of the civil parish of Tullaroan and the town lands of Gaulstown, Rameen, Wallstown and about one third of Ballycannon in the parish of Ballinamara. It formed part of the parochial union of Freshford from about the end of the reformation down to February 1843 when it became a distinct parish. Its area is about 13,600 acres. The name Tullaroan comes from the Irish version "Tulach Ruadhain" meaning the hill of Ruadhan. Ruadhan was an Irish saint. St. Ruadhan's feast day is the 15th of April, and he died in 584. He was one of the great men, Finian of Clonard trained, and was one of the disciples commemorated as the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland". Thirteenth century ruins at Lorrha in north Tipperary mark the site of his abbey which flourished down to the advent of the Anglo -Normans. Within the Lorrha's walls in the ninth century was compiled the famous manuscript known as the Stowe Missal, one of the most valued surviving great books belonged to Ancient Ireland. It took its name from the Duke of Buckingham's Stowe Library in England. It remains in the National Museum. As afore mentioned, Tullaroan originates from this saint's name but it is not known why the area is called after Ruadhan or what his connection was with the area. The village of Tullaroan consists of a church, a school, a parochial house, two public houses, a general grocery shop, a post office and a primary school.
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