My paternal grandparents emigrated from here in approximately 1912. I suppose it was beautiful but tough to make a living here. In her later years, when somewhat senile, my grandmother used to speak in Irish of riding horses along the strand as a young girl.
” You might travel far far from your own native home,
Far away oer the mountains far away oer the foam,
But of all the nice places that I have ever seen,
There is none to compare with the cliffs of Dooneen”
Margaret Mulbrandon: Contact me if you get a chance, I am sure that we can compare family notes. A lot of cousins have surfaced in the Chicago area of late.
This is brethtaking. I wonder why some of my family left this for Chicago.
My paternal grandparents emigrated from here in approximately 1912. I suppose it was beautiful but tough to make a living here. In her later years, when somewhat senile, my grandmother used to speak in Irish of riding horses along the strand as a young girl.
” You might travel far far from your own native home,
Far away oer the mountains far away oer the foam,
But of all the nice places that I have ever seen,
There is none to compare with the cliffs of Dooneen”
I nearly drowned there…
I hope to visit Kilkee before I am too old to do it….I am certain that there are Mulbrandon, Daley and Kelly cousins abounding.
We went there in May and is indeed brethtaking, but could not find any Mulbrandons. I think they all left.
They still race horses on the strand during the last week of August.
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Margaret Mulbrandon: Contact me if you get a chance, I am sure that we can compare family notes. A lot of cousins have surfaced in the Chicago area of late.