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Notes for John Joseph WALSH
Probably lived in Windgap, near Callan, Co Kilkenny, Ireland and in the Civil Parish of Killamery and the RC Parish of Windgap.
Windgap lies in a former slate-quarrying district spanning the Kilkenny Tipperary border and in the 19th century sent many emigrants to the slate quarries and mills of Rutland County, Vermont, and adjacent Washington County, New York. There were slate quarries in Killamery, Lamogue, Garryricken, Cotterstown and St. Nicholas.
Wikipedia Entries:
Windgap (Be·rna na Gaoithe in Irish) is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Those who hail from the village are sometimes referred to as 'Gappers'.
The village is located on the R689 regional road, the nearest main road being the N76 from Kilkenny to Clonmel.
Killamery (Cill LamraÌ in Irish) is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It was the site of a monastery (circa 632) and has a High Cross.ooded areas. Agriculture is Windgap's main economic activity, with dairy products as the main export
The RC parish is split between the civil parishes of Killamery and Tullahought
The parish of Windgap is in the Barony of Kells and the Province of Leinster. Prior to 1826 the parish was united with Dunnamaggan.
From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837):
"Killamery", a parish, in the barony of Kells, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Callan, on the road from that place to to Carrick-on-Suir; containing 1837 inhabitants. It comprises 6451 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. At Garryricken, which is the porperty and was the residence of the Marquess of Ormonde, are some very fine plantations. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ossory, forming the corps of the prebend of Kilamery, in the gift of the Bishop. The church is a plain structure erected in 1815. The glebe-house was erected in 1818; the glebe comprises five acres. In the R. C. divisions it is the head of a union or district, comprising also the parish of Tullohaught, and containing a chapel at Windgap. The parochial school is aided by the rector; and at Garryricken is a public school, the house for which it was built by the late Marquess of Ormonde. In these schools are about 70 children, and about 100 children are taught in a private school. A monastery of 1000 monks is said to have anciently existed here. Ar Rossamery are the ruins of a small church.î
The Welsh, Normans and Flemish began to migrate into southern Ireland in the wake of the Cambro-Norman campaign of the late twelfth century. Among these adventurers are the ancestors of the Walsh families. In Gaelic Ireland they are first referred to as Breathnach, le Waleys, Wallensis, Brenagh; and during the fourteenth century, become to be called Walshe, Welsh and Walsh. It is speculated that they were from the leading houses of Wales, and that Ririd, Philip Fitz-Rhys, Howell ap Grono, Philip "the Welshman" (nephew of Rhys ap Griffith), William le Waleys, Haylen Brenagh, Walter Howell, William Wallensis, and David Walsh were among the earliest progenitors. In County Kilkenny about the year A.D. 1200, the chief lords in the territory in which later the Walshs are most numerous included "Milo Baron of Overke," "Herbert le Mareys" of Kells, and "Milo le Bret" of Knocktopher (all descendants of Nesta). Large sections of the modern baronies of Knocktopher and Iverk were later to become the homeland of "Walsh of the Mountain," as the leading family of the Kilkenny Walshs came to be known. Their main stronghold was at Castlehale, said to originally have been built in the 13th century.
Windgap lies in a former slate-quarrying district spanning the Kilkenny Tipperary border and in the 19th century sent many emigrants to the slate quarries and mills of Rutland County, Vermont, and adjacent Washington County, New York. There were slate quarries in Killamery, Lamogue, Garryricken, Cotterstown and St. Nicholas.
Wikipedia Entries:
Windgap (Be·rna na Gaoithe in Irish) is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Those who hail from the village are sometimes referred to as 'Gappers'.
The village is located on the R689 regional road, the nearest main road being the N76 from Kilkenny to Clonmel.
Killamery (Cill LamraÌ in Irish) is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It was the site of a monastery (circa 632) and has a High Cross.ooded areas. Agriculture is Windgap's main economic activity, with dairy products as the main export
The RC parish is split between the civil parishes of Killamery and Tullahought
The parish of Windgap is in the Barony of Kells and the Province of Leinster. Prior to 1826 the parish was united with Dunnamaggan.
From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837):
"Killamery", a parish, in the barony of Kells, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Callan, on the road from that place to to Carrick-on-Suir; containing 1837 inhabitants. It comprises 6451 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. At Garryricken, which is the porperty and was the residence of the Marquess of Ormonde, are some very fine plantations. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ossory, forming the corps of the prebend of Kilamery, in the gift of the Bishop. The church is a plain structure erected in 1815. The glebe-house was erected in 1818; the glebe comprises five acres. In the R. C. divisions it is the head of a union or district, comprising also the parish of Tullohaught, and containing a chapel at Windgap. The parochial school is aided by the rector; and at Garryricken is a public school, the house for which it was built by the late Marquess of Ormonde. In these schools are about 70 children, and about 100 children are taught in a private school. A monastery of 1000 monks is said to have anciently existed here. Ar Rossamery are the ruins of a small church.î
The Welsh, Normans and Flemish began to migrate into southern Ireland in the wake of the Cambro-Norman campaign of the late twelfth century. Among these adventurers are the ancestors of the Walsh families. In Gaelic Ireland they are first referred to as Breathnach, le Waleys, Wallensis, Brenagh; and during the fourteenth century, become to be called Walshe, Welsh and Walsh. It is speculated that they were from the leading houses of Wales, and that Ririd, Philip Fitz-Rhys, Howell ap Grono, Philip "the Welshman" (nephew of Rhys ap Griffith), William le Waleys, Haylen Brenagh, Walter Howell, William Wallensis, and David Walsh were among the earliest progenitors. In County Kilkenny about the year A.D. 1200, the chief lords in the territory in which later the Walshs are most numerous included "Milo Baron of Overke," "Herbert le Mareys" of Kells, and "Milo le Bret" of Knocktopher (all descendants of Nesta). Large sections of the modern baronies of Knocktopher and Iverk were later to become the homeland of "Walsh of the Mountain," as the leading family of the Kilkenny Walshs came to be known. Their main stronghold was at Castlehale, said to originally have been built in the 13th century.