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Subject: Re: [IRL-SLIGO] Kilglass immigrants where they were from and wherethey went to
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:31:29 +0000


Nancy,
My Burns paternal line came from Cooga, Easkey, which is close to Kilglass parish. McCarrick is an interesting name. The majority lived on the other side of the Ox mountains in Cloonacool.
Paul
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From: "Nancy M. Lyons" <>
> Hi all
> I am intrigued when someone says Kilglass Civil Parish and its townlands in
> a query. I would like to know how many of your ancestors on this list came
> from Kilglass area?
> Mine are Philip Duffy and Barbara McCarrick form Carrowcollar-descendants
> went 1st to South Shields, County Durham, England then to Delaware City,
> Delaware. Patrick Duffy son of Philip and Barbara married Ann Devanney in
> the Catholic Church of Kilglass on February 22, 1852. The Devanneys had to
> be from there or close by-I suspect Carns in Castleconner because of the
> naming patterns of the children of Patrick and Ann Devanney Duffy. There was
> an Edward in Carns. There were brothers of Ann and a sister: Patrick
> Devanney, Edward, John, and a sister Julia. They all came to Delaware.
> Subsequently in the late 1800s the Devanney folk went to Philadelphia and
> some up into Montgomery County PA.
> Nancy
>
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