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Subject: Re: Nicker
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 13:14:45 EDT


Roger at writes:

> Can SKS on the list let me know the actual townland & parish the church at
Nicker belongs & if posssible its real name <

Roger,

I just returned from Ireland and am scouring the archives of May for 50 or so
Rootsweb lists - so I'm not prepared to get into too much detail when
answering some of these queries. But I can possibly answer the question you asked
above.

There has been an RC church in the townland of Nicker since at least the
1840's, and Mitchell's book on Irish Churches and Graveyards shows only a single
current RC church in the civil parish of Grean - and that is in the townland of
Nicker. The civil parish of Grean appears to lie completely within the RC
parish of Pallasgreen & Templebraden...... which has only two RC churches within
it: St. Brigid's, farther south in Templebraden, and St. John the Baptist in
Pallasgreen. As the village of Pallasgreen/Pallas Grean has no RC churches,
I would certainly nominate St. John the Baptist church for the logical
candidate. The church in Nicker is less than a mile north of Pallas Grean village.
If you want to go into this some more, I may be caught-up with my mail,
darkroom work, etc. ...... in a few weeks <gr>.

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Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts

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