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The Crook Church , Kilkee.
Yes, Don. Both names are used. Geraldine Place is the more formal one but the Doherty family owned the first 5 houses on the road so it got it’s name Doherty Terrace from locals.
John Williams
By John Williams (22/03/2023)
The Crook Church , Kilkee.
Thanks, Yvonne. I will pass it on to Michael.
By John Williams (18/01/2023)
Fooagh Races
Maire
Do not know about this particular incident. Have you the date? It was not uncommon for people, both jockeys and spectators, to be killed or injured during races. This was before Health & Safety!
If you can supply more information we will do our best to track down the details.
John Williams
By John Williams (18/01/2023)
Fooagh Races
My grandfather’s brother(Martin I think?) Sheedy from Clonreddan, Cooraclare, according to family history got killed off a horse at Kilkee races. Any info?
By Máire Daly (16/01/2023)
The Crook Church , Kilkee.
We stayed in a lodge there in 1940s when it was known as O’Doherty’s Terrace? I think.
By Don Cooper (08/01/2023)
The Crook Church , Kilkee.
Well done on your research for this article Michael. It made for very interesting reading and the photo from 1901 is fabulous
By Yvonne McGann (07/01/2023)
Bishops Island or Illaun an Espig Gortaig.
Rob
The Office of Public Works is the body resposible for the up keep of these buildings. The Parks and Wildlife Service also has an input as it is part of Kilkee Reefs SAC (Special Area of Conservation). I have written to both some time back but did not even get an acknowledgement. I complained because the growth of some plant species was overwhelming the structures on the isalnd.Would you make a complaint in the new year? The more comlaints they get the better.
John Williams
By John Williams (23/12/2022)
The Churches and Holy Well of Kilcredaun Headland.
Thanks you for the information.
John Williams
By John Williams (08/12/2022)
Corbally and Coosheen.
Thanks Sonny for your explanation. Quite a few people often mix them up. John Willliams
By John Williams (15/11/2022)
Corbally and Coosheen.
There is no such village as Corbally. It is the town land. The village is Coosheen. The road leads on through Farrihy and on to Bealaha.
By Sonny Hastings (11/11/2022)
Great Northern Diver
Breandáin
I regret that I do not know the difference between a Great Crested Grebe and a Great Northern Diver but I do know that Robert Brown was quite correct in his use of it’s (the short version of it is).
Thank you for taking the time to comment. John Williams
By John Williams (28/10/2022)
Great Northern Diver
The photographs by Robert Brown show a great crested grebe, not a great northern diver. I’ve been looking at both of them today. Also it’s “its”, not “it’s”.
By Breandán Mac Séarraigh (17/10/2022)
The Churches and Holy Well of Kilcredaun Headland.
Thanks for this information on west Clare history. The MacDonnell family records do state that three generation of the family, James d.1714, Charles James d. 1740 and Charles d.1768 were all buried in the family vault at Kilcredane near Carrigaholt.
By Christopher Armstrong-MacDonnell (10/09/2022)
The Story of Clár Ellagh
Thanks for the comments, Harty, and the fond reminiscences of your time in Kilkee. John Williams
By John Williams (21/06/2022)
The Story of Clár Ellagh
I came down from Armagh City to stay there in 1965 and 1966- it was a wonderful holiday where the people of Kilkee made us all welcome. We and they discovered that we were just ordinary people. It did more dispel -‘myths’ about each group. Alas cheap package holidays were the death knell to it. Miss Payne was in charge and a superb croquet player. We went on ‘trips’ from Clarellagh and the cliffs of Monr, the Bridges of Ross and the Burren were introduced to us and led to many and their families coming again to the area.
By Harty Ervine (10/06/2022)
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A brief history of Clar Ellagh.
In the early 1850’s Edward Cruise built two lodges at Seapoint and sold one of them on his retirement from the hotel business in 1862.The other lodge was rented out and held in trust for his daughter Annie Cruise Cox.
After changing hands a few times Kitt Desmond bought one of the lodges in 1920 and in 1923 bought the second lodge and traded very successfully as the Desmond hotel until 1943.
It was bought in 1944 by a group of methodists from the midlands led by Rev.Samuel Crawford and under the auspices of the Christian Endeavour movement for the sum of £1,625.The money was raised by the selling of shares,voluntary contributions and a bank loan.The idea behind it was to offer people an affordable holiday in a christian environment and more importantly that people would forge new friendships and broaden
their social groups.
A company called Christian Endeavour Guest House,Kilkee lLimited was set up and a committee was formed under the chairmanship of Mr.Gerald Armitage,a position he held until his resignation in 1974.The official opening was held on the 21st of July 1944 and it could cater for 50 guests.In 1964 a 2nd storey was added increasing the capacity to 100 guests.
A competition was held to name the building using the initial letters C.E.and a Mr.Parkhill from Northern Ireland (who hadn’t a word of Irish)suggested Clar Ellagh.From researching it seems there’s no explanation for the name.
Clar Ellagh traded as a guest house until it closed its doors for the last time in 2006
In 2007 the property was purchased by the late Martin Cullinan just before the recession hit. It was purchased again in 2014 and turned into 3 houses.
By Yvonne McGann (30/05/2022)
Loop Head Eire Sign
Thanks for posting. A really interesting subject. I’d love to come and see it.
By David Freedman (29/04/2022)
The White Sisters
MY BROTHER EDMUND HOWARD when he holidayed in Crowley’s lodge, about 1959, kicked his ball regularly into the adjacent garden.
Having done it several times the ladies in the white attire ran out and confiscated his ball.
Our father went in to retrieve the ball with little Eddie, who was barely up to his Dad’s waist. When my father was getting nowhere with his entreaties, Eddie exclaimed, “but Miss Whitey, but Miss Whitey” which was enough to have his ball thrown at him in a hot temper.Yound Eddie left happily to continue his game. Subsequently, we always knew them as the
‘Miss Whiteys’
By Henry Howard (14/04/2022)
Introducing this website
Claire
Thanks for your enquiry. I don’t know of any Sheridans in Kilkee or the Loophead Area. Cahesherkin Church is in the parish of Clooney to the east of Ennis, in local history terms, a long way away. We have limited resources so we concentrate on our local patch. One place you could try is our parent body iCAN (Irish Community Archive Network).email: ouririshheritage@gmail.com. There are branches of iCAN closer to Clooney so they may be able to help.
I hope you get the information and contacts that you are looking for.
Yours, John Williams
By John Williams (07/03/2022)
Loop Head Lighthouse
Thanks, Claire, for the kind words. We would also like to thank you most sincerely for you support of our lecture series. John Williams, Chairman,
Kilkee Civic Trust
By John Williams (07/03/2022)
Introducing this website
I see that this page has not been updated in a long time.
I wish that I could find anyone named SHERIDAN who would like to correspond with me.
Cahersherkin, the old schoolhouse is what I am interested in knowing more about.
By Claire (03/03/2022)
Loop Head Lighthouse
To John Williams and Joseph McCloskey,,
I spent many summers in Kilkee walking the Cliffs and the beach, attending the Kilkee Civic Trust lectures lunching at Diamond Rocks, meeting my Irish cousins, and making new friends at the library. I introduced my ten grandchildren to their roots and relatives with the hope that they will return to explore their heritage. I wish to thank all those who are involved in this wonderful project.
Sincerelly,
Clare Harvey Curtin
By Clare Harvey Curtin, New York (18/02/2022)
History of the Catholic Church in Kilkee.
I do indeed have many happy memories of Kilkee John WIlliams. Although we didn’t move to the town until I was aged 5 or 6 and left when I was 12, it is the part of my life that I remember best as being my childhood. We were really lucky to live across the road from the beach so during the school holidays I and friends would spend hours building complicated sand palaces, decorating them with shells and getting frustrated that the seats we made all collapsed if we tried to sit on them! These days I go by the name LucyAnn – the history of ‘Dorothy’ was not a happy one! I’ve come to terms with it now and as a genealogist I feel it’s important to keep it there in case anyone ever wants to follow my life trail – I’ve moved 14 times altogether and Kilkee was the 3rd place I lived!
By LucyAnn Curling (11/02/2022)
The Crook Church , Kilkee.
Maria, if you dig up that old photo we would love to get it for publication.
By John Williams (11/10/2021)

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