Finding Roots All Around the Glen of Imaal

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Full title: Who Was Granny? : a family history

Creator / Author: Maura Murphy Gibson

Item Type / Page count: Book / 320pp

When Published: 2019

Publisher / Place of Publication: Kate Rose Publishing / 30 Woodlands, Maynooth, Co. Kildare

About: In this substantial and well-illustrated A4-sized publication, Dublin-born author, Maura Murphy Gibson, sets out to trace her family history. The story pivots on the elopement and 1895 marriage of her Protestant grandmother and her Catholic grandfather. The author looks in detail at the roots of both grandparents and at subsequent historical events. Her journey takes her to a wide area of West Wicklow and into Wexford including places such as Glen of Imaal, Rathdangan, Carnew and Aughrim. Irish historical events also feature such as when an uncle was killed in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday, 21^st November, 1920. A further personal touch is added as the author contributes several original poems relevant to the text.

ID number(s): 978527233690

Contents: Acknowledgement — Foreword — Introduction — Mick and Kate – Elopement (poem) — Married Life — Uncle Joseph — Bloody Sunday (poem) — Cappagh Hill (poem) / Lilly Traynor — The Ballymount Murphys – Kate (poem) — Starting School — High Nelly (poem) — Coalman Wade (poem) — The Bibby and Johnny’s Night-out — Clondalkin (poem) — The Links (poem) — Aunt Ciss — Cousin (poem) — The Sewing Machine (poem) — Haves and Have-nots – The Iveagh Market (poem) — The Pigs and Chickens — Cottage Dwellers (poem) — 1954/55 — Travelling People (poem) — The Carpenter Murphys — When Cousins Connect — Eviction (poem) — Yeomen Farmers, Irish Rebellion 1798 — Croppy Biddy — Finlay/Eager/Hinch Connections — From France to Aughrim — Henry and Kate’s Sons — Byrne/Traynor Connection — Drimnagh Castle, Dublin — Bluebell Babies (poem) — Sources —Endnotes.

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Households in Kiltegan Parish in middle of 19th century

Full title: Parish of Kiltegan

Creator / Author: Richard Griffith

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapters / eDocs /20p (16p + 4p)

When Published: 1854

Publisher / Place of Publication: Alexander Thom and Sons for Her Majesty’s Stationary Office / 87 Abbey Street, Dublin.

Parent Publication [book]: County of Wicklow: valuation of the several tenements comprising that portion of the Union of Baltinglass situate in the county above named / Richard Griffith, General Valuation Office / 106pp

About: The property tax system of 1850’s Ireland, otherwise known as Griffiths Valuation. It was the first major attempt at valuing property. This section lists householders in the Parish of Kiltegan, part of the area covered by the Poor Law Union of Baltinglass in West Wicklow. The parish of Kiltegan takes in parts of the Baronies of both Ballinacor South and  Upper Talbotstown.

ID number(s): None

Contents: [Parish of Kiltegan within Barony of Ballinacor South] Ballinguile — Ballinguile Hill — Carrigatheme — Knocknagree — Lybagh — Rathcoyle Lower — Rathcoyle Upper — Slieveboy Lower — Slieveboy Upper — Slievemaan — Slievenamough — Slievenamough Plain — Toorboy.

Contents:  [Parish of Kiltegan within Barony of Upper Talbotstown] Ballybrackbeg — Ballybrackmore — Ballykillmurry — Ballyknockan — Ballymaconey — Bawnogue — Bernagh — Borkillbeg — Borkillmore — Carrig Lower — Carrig Mountain — Carrig Upper — Cornan East — Cornan West — Cranareen — Crossnacole — Danesfort Lower — Danesfort Upper — Deerpark — Drim — Fiddan — Fiddancoyle — Graigue — Highpark Lower — Highpark Upper — Humewood — Kelsha — Kelshabeg — Killamoat Lower — Killamoat Upper — Kiltegan — Village of Kiltegan — Knockavurrig — Muckduff Lower — Muckduff Upper — Mullannacranna — Rathdangan — Rathduffbeg — Rathgorragh Lower — Rathgorragh Upper  — Slievereagh Lower — Slievereagh Upper.

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