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21. Catholic Parish Registers Collinstown, deaths, 23rd August 1803: “Mary Nugent, Bratty”. 22. ROD 622-178-429028. 23. Analecta Hibernica, no 18, The O Clery Book of Genealogies, 23 D 17 R.I.A. (Dublin, 1951), p.187. 24. See Neil How, Thomas Nugent of Montserrat, and his links to Antigua...

Footnotes 1. Fr Edmund Hogan SJ, The Description of Ireland, 1598 (London, 1878), p.106. 2. NAI Lodge Ms 2, p.526. 3. Crown Rental Book, John Rylands Library, Latin Ms 215. 4. NAI Lodge Ms 19, p.61. 5. Qui semper probus fuit, et integer; difficile est probare malum; talis fuit hic religiosus...

Taghmon Church In any case as you can see in the accompanying picture, probably the most prominent building in Taghmon is the ancient Church, possibly on the site or near that of the monastery of the Irish monks of that place, the followers of Saint Munna. But of course when you get to the late...

Taghmon The ‘General Nugent’ that you see mentioned in the letter above was Major General Christopher Nugent of the French army, who was originally of Dardistown, not far from here towards Delvin, and Taghmon, this ancient hill that you see towards the bottom centre of your picture, and this is...

Streamstown Then if you go South of Benison Lodge in that picture, and hit the lake shore, you will see the townland of Streamstown. There was an ancient Nugent family of this place, described by the O’Clerigh’s in their genealogical documents, which are part of the general historical push that...

Faughalstown In this townland, along the shoreline, you get the great fort of Mortimer, meaning it was built by Edmund Mortimer, Lord of Meath, in the reign of Henry IV and I believe it is in fact the centre of the Manor known as ‘Belgarde’ in the old records, especially because the early...

This place is later associated with the Smyth family, who of course are the great Ascendancy name in late 18th to mid 20th century Co. Westmeath, and who are still to be found there or very close to it. And in fact a Pakenham Nugent, ultimately of the Clonlost family but whose descendants...

On the off chance anybody out there is interested in some local and genealogical history from Co. Westmeath I thought I would try and describe some of the Nugent families that are located around Crooked Wood in that county, using the spelling of the placenames in this 1808 Grand Jury map of...

Its been reported, on Fox News for example, that Iran has been invaded by Kurdish forces from Iraq. So there is to be a "boots on the ground" war and I guess the test now is the attitude of the Iranian population, will they oppose this or in some sense side with the enemies of the Islamic...

By the way Khamenei was against nuclear weapons, now with him gone... Anyway its obviously descended into a pounding match between the US and Israel v. Iran, much like the former conflict, with the former crisscrossing Iranian airspace at will and taking out targets via their airforce and...

And of course it excludes migrants from these positions, in practice, and we need to figure out how to protect Ireland from the consequences of this invasion.

Yes thats worth considering, traditionally that was the case, all Civil Servants, teachers, barristers, Gardai etc etc, always had to know Irish in this country and had separate exams to prove it. In fact many teachers for example were let go in Ireland when they brought that in and some didn't...

I think David O'Reilly might run in Galway for the Irish People. I was talking to him a couple of weeks ago and it seemed he was ready to...

Sorry to hear that Willow, hope you pull through ok.

Yes it is very bad! A lot of people described the video of the announcement as a kind of Middle East kidnapping sequence, because of the way he looks bullied by all those Muslims beside him!