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Lena Daly
24. June 2008 | 16:54 hHello Abbeyfeale
My mother’s family are from Purt and three of us are looking to move back at some stage. My sister wants to move back in about a year. She is looking at renting a property (2 bed). If anyone knows someone who rents out a property, please let me know.
I’ve not used the comments page before but its great.
MUIRIS
24. June 2008 | 11:26 hBest of luck to Abbeyfeale Races on Sunday. Anybody got any tips?
timmy
18. June 2008 | 00:28 hRaymond I am working on the photos will have them very soon Timmy
MUIRIS
25. May 2008 | 17:00 hGreetings from Cardiff! We are here with sore heads and empty pockets. See you all in Abbeyfeale later tonight.
P.S. Note to Boss; “Taking rest of week off.”
C’MON MUNSTER!
nolanj1
18. May 2008 | 17:29 hDATE FOR YOUR DIARY
Abbeyfeale District Association London will be holding our Annual Reunion Dance on Saturday 18th October 2008, St Augustine Social Club.
More details to follow Soon!!!
Lawrence
17. May 2008 | 09:52 hPity about the Galtymore closing. I also met my wife there one Sunday night which was unfortunate as she thought i was at home minding the house. She is now my ex-wife. Happy days!
Sheila
17. May 2008 | 09:46 hI will be visiting Ireland for a short stay in June of this year. I have never visited before. My Mother’s had some relatives from Abbey Feale, I believe by the name of Mann. I also believe that family members may have owned a general store, boutique, or beauty salon? I would be most interested in looking up relatives while there. I believe that they would be familiar with my Mother.
So happy to have found this website, and hope that you are able to connect me to my relations.
Sheila O’Brien Eilts - formerly of Chicago, Illinois
MUIRIS
14. May 2008 | 16:13 hSorry to hear that the Galtymore is closing down. I met the wife there nearly forty years ago, but I still have fond memories of the place
TAIGHEEN
22. April 2008 | 14:29 hThe wife has taken pity on me, following your recent article concerning my misadventures in a certain Limerick night club (from which I am now barred) and has given me permission to travel to the Heineken Cup semi-final. Does anyone know of any good lap dancing clubs either in Birmingham or Coventry? Up Munster!
Taigheen
Raymond
22. April 2008 | 11:06 hGaltee Come West by Marian Collins is available from Anne Lyons, Abbeyfeale and other local outlets, priced €30, or you can order direct from Marian Collins, Dromin McTurlough, Newcastle West Co. Limerick.
sheilaborzoi
21. April 2008 | 21:53 hI am interesting in obtaining a history of Abbeyfeale (I know the last one was some years ago). I am also interested in Marian Collin’s book “Galfee Comes West”. Please post information. Thanks.
KevinHiggins
9. April 2008 | 00:15 hHarnett’s of Abbeyfeale
My grandmother’s family were Harnetts from Abbeyfeale. Her uncle was Monsg. John Harnett from there, he was a monsignor in the archdiocese of Los Angeles around the turn of last century and through to the late ’20’s or so. In any event, I have found him on the Ellis Island website on ship manifests traveling to and from Ireland with his nephew Fr. Patrick Harnett, also of Abbeyfeale.
I was there this past summer and stopped off at a Harnett petrol station on the main road leading from Abbeyfeale towards Dublin. Anyway, the lady there knew of the monsignor but didn’t know much more as it was her husband’s family and he wasn’t there. I was going to send them our family tree, but haven’t gotten around to do so.
The Harnetts that I am related to came from Abbeyfeale and settled in Los Angeles. They are still there in Los Angeles.
higgins-k@hotmail.com
PAUDIE
8. April 2008 | 12:23 hMossie,
Is there room for one more on that mini-bus? And also would you have a spare ticket? And if Declan Kidney gets the Ireland job, will Eddie O’Sullivan be in charge of Munster this time next year? And will Bertie Ahern go to Europe? So many questions, and so few answers. MUNSTER ABU!
MOSSIE
8. April 2008 | 11:53 hHi Guys!
I missed the game against Gloucester, but am fit and raring to go against Saracens. I have a ticket organized but no accomodation. Can your Birmingham cousins help? There are ten of us travelling over in a mini-bus, but tell them not to go to too much trouble. We will bring our own cans and we all have sleeping bags.
anneke
29. March 2008 | 13:33 hHello everyone, I’d like to set up a charity shop in Abbeyfeale. Which charity is still open for suggestions though I prefer a nature (crann?) or third world organisation (bothar,..?) I still need everything: accomodation, shop furniture and more volunteers. Would you like to become a volunteer? do you know where to rent a cheap shop? do you have free/cheap shop furniture etc etc? then please contact me. Don’t offer to donate any goods as yet. anneke.vrieling@lycos.com
Malcolm Seddon
26. February 2008 | 23:29 hWould anybody either remember, or have access to a radio schedule, for any time during the year 1938?
Also, does any boy remember when electricity came to Abbeyfeale, whether you had to pay to be connected to the grid and how many outlets you got in a typical house?
Strange questions perhaps, but really necessary for my book research.
Many thanks to all
Malcolm Seddon
Brother in law to Margaret Flynn, of Abbeyfeale, who left for England to take up nursing and now lives in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, with her husband, Nigel and 3 children
shellby
13. February 2008 | 16:29 hhi i posted a message yesterday but forgot to add my e mail address my name is shell and i am looking for the harnetts or anyone who knows them.if anyone can help please get in touch.michblun@yahoo.co.uk
shellby
12. February 2008 | 16:23 hdoes anyone know the harnetts from abbeyfeale.would like to find my family from years ago ,i would be realy grateful if anyone could help me .
timmy
25. December 2007 | 00:20 hHappy Christmas to all in Abbeyfeale especially to the Riordans,Blairs and the Foleys and a special hello to Rita and Pa from Timmy,Josephine,Frank,Mark,Maria,and Martin in New York
Pedro52
19. December 2007 | 17:32 hHappy Christmas and a prosporus and healthy New Year to everyone in Abbeyfeale Especially those who remember me.
Keep up the good work site is great.
Peter Quirke (Pedro)
MICHAEL
18. December 2007 | 12:02 hHappy Christmas to all in Abbeyfeale and Knocknagoshel from Down Under. Hope to see everybody next summer.
THE YANK
17. December 2007 | 15:47 hGREETINGS AND HAPPY CHRISTMAS FROM NEW YORK! SORRY I CAN’T BE WITH YOU THIS YEAR. HAVE A GOOD ONE, AND I HOPE TO SEE EVERYBODY IN ABBEYFEALE NEXT SUMMER, GOD WILLING.
Marie
13. December 2007 | 14:31 hHello. This may seem strange but I was wondering does anyone know anything about the Faith Healer Janice Craig. I seen her on TV sometime ago, and I was wondering is there a meeting you can attend or can you go to see here privately. This would mean a lot to me if I could get some info. Many thanks.
Marie.
nolanj1
5. November 2007 | 18:07 hAbbeyfeale & District Association London will be holding our Annual General Meeting on the 12th January 2008 at St Augustine Social Culb, Hammersmith at 6 pm.
We are always looking for new member to join the committee so please come along.
If you would like more information then please contact us on abbeyfealeassiocation@yahoo.co.uk
Maryoconnor
25. October 2007 | 20:54 hI am descended from the O’connors from Abbeyfeale. My grandparents were Lawrence and Bridget and they were farmers at Abbeyfeale (Hill). Does anyone remember them or know of this family. I understand that they could have had a large number of daughters. At least that is what has been passed down to me verbally. Any information on my family would be greatly appreciated. I would very much like to talk on-line to anyone who knows them. many thanks, Mary.
Brookes02@blueyonder.co.uk
PAUDIE
15. October 2007 | 16:33 hBad enough that we were dumped out of the rugby world cup. Now, if England go on and win it, life will be really hell!
Come on South Africa.
josie
13. October 2007 | 15:51 hHi my name is josephine, I have just come across this site. I wonder if any of ye out there know of a Timmmy Collins, from Abbeyfeale, he would have moved back to Limerick in about 1986, before that he lived around the Holloway Road and Archway London N19. I have some very important information to tell him. If anyone knows of him can u please log onto this site. Thanks Josephine, it is good information by the way. Josephine
LOST PASSWORDS
2. October 2007 | 10:28 hLOST PASSWORDS;
Some people are having problems with their site passwords. If you log in with the given password and click on SITE ADMIN you can then change the password to your own particular favourite.
sharono
28. September 2007 | 14:18 hHello all. My name is Sharon. My mum, Elizabeth Moriarty (also known as Betty and Liz) was born in Drumtasna, Abbeyfeale in July 1948 and left about 17/18 years old to come to London. My mum died very suddenly last year and so I was just keen to get in contact with anyone who knew her when she was young. When someone dies suddenly, you really wish that you had more time to find out about them when they were young. Many thanks. Sharon.
caherhayes
23. September 2007 | 21:29 hGood Evening folks,
This years Abbeyfeale London Dinner Dance will be held at Camden Town Irish Centre on the 6th of October , Please contact abbeyfealeassiocation@yahoo.co.uk for any questions you might have, other wise see you all on the night. regards
DANIEL LEAHY
19. September 2007 | 14:31 hHi
My name is Daniel Leahy of Chelmsford Massachusetts and I just happened to come upon your internet site while researching my family tree. My Grandfather emigrated from Abbeyfeale in 1920. I would be interested in contacting any relatives. His name was Michael Leahy Born 1898 died 1944 in Lowell Mass. His father was named Daniel Leahy, mother s name Hanova Finigan.I believe from Dromtrasna North. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Dan Leahy
Seán Mc Curtáin
11. September 2007 | 10:54 hRaymond,
I recall a few lines about the ‘misbehaviour’ of a landlord near abbeyfeale in the late 1800s.
Then O’Grady came with fire and ball to burn the dwellings down;
His hireling crew did subdue the country and the town.
Tom Clancy once mentioned Abbeyfeale to me. One night around the mid -70s, I was on patrol on the Broadway Local # 1 train and the Clancey Brothers got on at 34th Street . I approached then and they asked me from part of Limeerick I came. When I said “Abbeyfeale”, Tom Clancey said: “On the way to Abbeyfeale, I met a man with mail”. I didn’t know at the time that this is a line from John B. Keane’s play Sieve.
Go mbeannaí Dia ort féin agus ar gach éinne i Mainistir na Féile.
Seán Mc Curtáin
Franklin, N.Y.
llsaylor
9. September 2007 | 00:41 hI’m looking for John Joe Foley. I’m an old friend of his and I’ve lost touch with him. If you know him, please tell him that I’m trying to track him down.
Leslie Saylor
llsaylor@cox.net
MUIRIS
1. September 2007 | 16:24 hBuiochus le Dia! Fuair me ticeid! I got a ticket! Met a fella who knew a fella who owed a fella etc. and I scrounged a ticket - all legal and above board (well, almost)
So, we are “Off To Dublin In The Green, In The Green!”
COME ON LIMERICK!
LIMERICK ABU!
30. August 2007 | 14:25 hThe two County Boards are getting around 10,000 tickets each. Does this mean that there will be 20,000 supporters and 64,000 neutral fans in Croke Park on Sunday? I was always a bit slow at the sums going to school but surely this does not add up!
Sean Og
30. August 2007 | 14:20 hI notice that bids on 2 Hogan Stand tickets on e-bay have reached €1062. The face value of these is around €140. Is it any wonder that hurling is in decline when real fans have to contend with this?
MOSSIE
29. August 2007 | 23:22 hWhere have all the tickets gone to? Watch out for the fat cats (not the Kilkenny fans) in the corporate boxes on Sunday while the REAL fans will have to watch on TV. You will see the same faces at the rugby and soccer, and even the cricket, but only if they are winning!
THE YANK
28. August 2007 | 12:29 hHi Guys!
Wish I could be in Croke Park or Abbeyfeale next Sunday, but I am stuck out here in Queens. I shall watch it on TV and celebrate afterwards.
COME ON LIMERICK!
PAUDIE
14. August 2007 | 12:19 hHi Guys!
I’m one of those marked absent from work yesterday morning due to excessive celebrations following Limerick’s great win.
(Notice to Management)I intend to be marked absent for a whole week when we beat Kilkenny.
UP LIMERICK!
MOSSIE
30. July 2007 | 20:08 hWell done to the Limerick hurlers on a great win last Sunday. They can go all the way now!
UP LIMERICK!
johnb
25. July 2007 | 23:14 hKeep up the good work Ray, greeting to all in caherhayes.
timmy
21. July 2007 | 03:44 hGreetings from NY great photo on the homepage of a beautiful summers day in Abbeyfeale hope you get alot more days like that before summer is over great job with new web site God bless from the Big Apple
MaryPats
20. July 2007 | 17:09 hWell done Raymond & Jay with the new web site. I may contribute a few fashion and cookery items later, when I have recovered from the Streisand concert. What a nightmare! But what a singer!
katylnn
18. July 2007 | 07:30 hI love the new site and its great to get all the news and stories from home especially Mt Collins.
The Best of Luck to all.
Pedro52
17. July 2007 | 15:21 hCouldnt agree more Paudie. IT was not on the curriculum when I went to St Itas College and its difficult to teach an old dog new tricks or in my case a very old dog.
Keep up the good work.
PAUDIE
16. July 2007 | 21:20 hI had just about gotten used to the old site when you land us with this!
If it ain’t broke - don’t fix it!
Anyway, best of luck with the new site and keep those tall tales flowing. We all need a laugh!
punkeffect
16. July 2007 | 19:36 hnice update. keep up the good work!!!
Raymond
14. July 2007 | 16:33 hGreetings from the new Abbeyfeale On Line web site. We are having a few early teething problems, (what else is new!) but Jay and his team of IT technicians are on the case and have promised that everything should be running smoothly within a couple of days.
Anyone wishing to contribute to the site, or post comments on the various articles can now do so. However, you must first of all register as a member again.
We will post full details of registration, etc. over the coming days, and we hope that you will soon be enjoying the new site, and we look forward to hearing your comments (and criticisms!)
Raymond.