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 Posts I have planned for the blog include:

The townland of Iragh over time, all 317 acres

Plotting the known families in Feakle, Lecarrow and Iragh townlands

Life in Ireland in the early 1800s

Emigration of Daniel and Mary (Tuohy) Magennis to Sydney, New South Wales - my line

The tragic life of Mary Tuohy, wife of Daniel - pregnant widow to poisoner

County Clare during the Famine

Fleeing the famine to Melbourne, Victoria via Cape Hope - James and Johanna 

Fleeing the famine to America - Cornelius' children

YDNA work

My One-Name Study, Guild of One-Name Studies

Can Autosomal DNA find Mary Tuohy's family

Dan and Mary's family quite literally falls apart

A McGuiness Reunion in 2011

Did James marry a very early Tassie lass? - finding Louisa Dorman

The Crampton mob

Marrying into Irish convict families - the Byrnes and Dunns

Distinguished McGuiness descendants 

Crooks in our tree

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A Townland called Iragh

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