Searching for Ancestor Information from Annaghmore

Marie 

Annaghmore Drumcullen
Annaghmore Killoughy

The only quinn I can see in the Griffith Valuations of Ireland is this one (carried out in 1848)

Quinn William Clondonnell Glebe Killoughy Offaly

The parish office would be 

St. Brigid's Church, Mount Bolus

(Parish of Kilcormac and Killoughey)

http://homepage.eircom.net/~killoughey/  -  maybe you could contact the parish office and they might be able to help you.  They should have all the church records

Hope this is of some help

Geraldine 

http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/offaly/killoughy.htm

Thank you Geraldine.  I don't think I ever saw your message.  

My story has a happy ending, though there are still some mysteries attached.  In 2019 I made a trip to Europe and when I was in Portugal I got an email from a woman who had seen my old posts re my great grandmother and thought perhaps that we were related.  I replied that I was traveling and that I would contact her when I got home.  I had already planned to visit Roscrea as part of my trip to see if I could find out anything about my Offally ancestors.  A couple of weeks later, I ended up in Roscrea at Sli Dala B&B.  I had shared my story with the owner there and I must say she was completely amazing.  I arrived on Father's Day on the bus from Dublin and she took me to the Gol Club to get some dinner and then after dinner she said she would take me to see the home land of my Quinn's and Quigleys.  At this point, the Quinn homeland was part of a neighbors farm and he was quite helpful to us.  The Quigley property was a partially renovated thatched cottage with some stalls behind it.  It was amazing to be able to see that.  When we returned to the B&B I had mentioned about the email I had received when I was in Lisbon and Marie asked me where she lived and I pulled up the email and it was Cangort Park.  I had not made the connection on how close it was to where I would be.  Marie invited her (and her parents and one of her 2 sons) to come over to the B&B to meet.  In the process of discussing what I knew of my Shinrone family and what her mother knew of those who had left, the mother mentioned that they had been visited by her aunt and the aunt's son who was a priest and mentioned his name.  And that was when I finally knew that this was my family.  They are the descendants of what appears to be the one sibling of my great grandmother who stayed in Ireland and it was indeed James of Cangort Park.  

There is still plenty more to find out about this and my other families, but I am so thrilled to have been able to see where my great grandmother grew up and meet some of my Quinn/Quigley relations.

All the best

Marie

mizmallow@aol.com

Well Marie

That is an amazing story and it worked out so well.   Delighted you got to see where your Great Grandmother grew up and the fact that you me with the Quinn and Quigley relations was definately a great bonus,

The very best of good luck with your research for the future.  Just one thing there are Genealogy groups for nearly every County in Ireland on Facebook if that is any help to you.

Geraldine