Month: December 2009

  • Christmas presence

    I’ve been trying for a while to get some pictures of the heron and today I got lucky. Photos taken at 8.45 on Christmas morning.

  • Tis the yeares midnight…

    ‘Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes, Lucies, who scarce seaven houres herself unmasks, The Sunne is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rayes; The worlds whole sap is shrunk…’ From A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day: being the shortest day, by John Donne –  –  –  – …

  • Kilsallagh group

    Image number: FH9 Date: Unknown Location: Kilsallagh Description: Apart from Mary Carolan (Walsh), second from the left, I don’t have any other names yet. Photographer: Unknown ADDENDUM: 21 July 2012 John Carolan from the US has recently identified the man in the hat as Michael Anthony Walsh,  brother of Mary Walsh Carolan, and is hoping…

  • Mary Carolan

    Image number: FH8 Date: Circa 1943 Location: Kilsallagh Description: Mary Carolan, wife of John (?) Carolan of Kilsallagh; my great grandmother. Her maiden name seems to have been Walsh or Walshe, and she was born circa 1851 – on the 1911 census her age is given as 60 years. She was the mother of eleven…

  • John Carolan

    Image number: FH7 Date: Circa 1943 Location: Kilsallagh, County Mayo, Ireland Description: John Carolan, brother of James Patrick; my great uncle. John was the eldest child and inherited the farm at Kilsallagh after the deaths of his parents. In 1911 he was 25 years old according to the Census of Ireland for that year. This…

  • James Patrick Carolan

    Image number:FH6 Date: Circa 1908 Location: Not known Description: Studio portrait of my grandfather, James Patrick Carolan, son of Mary Walsh and John Carolan. Born at Kilsallagh in 1888. Died in London 3 December, 1972. Buried in County Mayo, Ireland. Photographer: Not known

  • Winter dawn

    The view from my bedroom window at about 7.30 am.