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.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
23
Dec 09
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
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Under the Julian calender Saint Lucy’s Day, 13 December, was the day of the Winter Solstice. Read the complete poem plus some useful notes at Representative Poetry Online
Picture taken during a brief snow shower at about 8 am on 22 December 2009.
23
Dec 09
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 to get more information from Michael’s grandchildren and great grandchildren in due course.
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Dec 09
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 children, nine of whom were still alive in 1911. See John (Image number FH7) and James (FH6).
Some postings on an internet forum which I came across via a Google search for Carolans + Kilsallagh refer to a marriage on 16 February 1878 at Crossmolina Roman Catholic church between Mary Walshe and John Carolan, born circa 1837, son of John Carolan. Mary’s oldest surviving son, John, was born about seven years after the date of this wedding – the gap could be explained by the fact that she had two children who didn’t survive.
Photographer: Dermot Carolan
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Dec 09
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 means he would have been born circa 1885 and puts him in his late fifties at the time the photo was taken. The line visible down the right side of his face is due to some kind of damage to either the print or the negative.
Photographer: Dermot Carolan
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Dec 09
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
