CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY Drumcliff Stage 2 (Calvary Section)

Clare Roots Society under the direction of John Bradley are about to commence stage 2 (Calvary) of recording the gravestones.

This will entail:

Receiving a map of your section.

Photographing Gravestones:

Transcribing inscriptions to a word document.

Returning to manually recording unreadable headstones.

We need approximately 11 individual (or couples) willing to take on a section of 50 graves approximately. A brief session will take place for all participants prior to commencing. We would hope to have it completed by the end of January. You would carry out the recording at a suitable time to yourself.

Unfortunately Clare County Council have mislaid 10 years of records within this section of the Cemetery so our work will be of immense value to future generations. 

You can view our previous work with regard to Drumcliff at:

 http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/drumcliff_old_graveyard_ennis.htm

Thanking all in advance:

Clara Hoyne.

 N.B. Don't forget the fantastic book on Drumcliff Cemetery is available through the Clare Roots Society as per 

http://clareroots.org/index.php/2011-06-29-19-06-17/publications

 You can read all about it on the above link. It is far more than a list of names...

GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS CLARE CASTLE/ BALLYEA

We often complain about the lack of records for Irish research, but now there is so much being released due to the work of volunteers, as well as some of the paid sites.

As many of you know, I'm involved with Clare Roots Society and am so pleased to be associated with this hard working group. One of the most recent achievements has been the documenting of around 2,000 records from the Clare Castle/Ballyea  churches... see full details below.

This book looks to be going to it's second print, which is fantastic... it sells for €10 plus postage, and was under €5 to post to Australia...

However, to go ahead with the second print, we really need names of those who genuinely would like a copy of the book. If you are one of those, could you please contact Clara Hoyne, secretary of the CRS (Clare Roots Society) at

 Clara  Hoyne <secretary@clareroots.org>

Clara will be able to help you with further details. Perhaps you could also tell Clara where you heard about this book.

Clare Castle / Ballyea – The Parish Remembers

2 November 2011 saw the launch of a book written and compiled by Eric Shaw entitled Clare Castle / Ballyea – The Parish Remembers. In conjunction with Clare Roots Society, Eric has documented all the readable gravestone inscriptions in Clare Abbey, Clare Hill, Killoo, Killone, and Ballyea & Clare Castle Churches. These amount to about 2,000 records, some dating from the late 1600s. The book will help to preserve the inscriptions and to make them available for family history research. It will also help to draw visitors and fits in with development plans to promote the attractions of the Parish.

                                                                           

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY CREATES HISTORY!

Congratulations to all concerned with the inaugural Clare Roots Society International Genealogy Conference...


 Early reports about the conference which has just been completed are all positive... Around 100 attended the conference itself with many of those also attending the Fringe activities... 


 I will post more when I have more details.


 Planning is already underway for the next one... where will you be in 2012? Co Clare will welcome with you with open arms...well done and a great result for all who have worked so hard to bring this to fruition.

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY CREATES FIRST.. free Genealogy advice...

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY CREATIVE CONFERENCE: OCT 1, 2011 Ennis


Ennis, Co Clare is the place to be in late September/October, in particular Oct 1st.


Have you ever wished you had access to your own personal genealogist?


Well, you can and for FREE... be at Templegate Hotel, Ennis, on 30th September at 4pm...7.00pm


There will be a number of genealogists there to help you on the way to discovering just where Aunt Sinead did get married or how Uncle Paddy ended up with the family farm...  


Sessions will be between 15-30 minutes and are sure to encourage, refresh and revive your interest in family history, genealogy...


 That not enough... well, there is more! Following this will be a visit to the Clare Local Studies Centre at Clare County Library from 7pm -8pm.


Then, time to savour, before back to TEMPLEGATE HOTEL,, where you can register for a very exciting conference between 8.45am and 9.20am... let the fun begin.


 Full details and programme at   http://clareroots.org/   then       conference programme




Clare is definitely the place to be in September/October 2011...