It's a long way from Tipperary but even further from Donegal
Ellen Runciman, what an exotic name. The name first caught my eye when I was compiling the data a few years ago; according to Wikipedia the surname Runciman was first found in [...]
Albert Edward Murray
Dining room at the Great Southern Hotel, Killarney Dinner in the grand dining room of the Hydro Hotel on the 31st March 1901 would have an [...]
Charlotte Catherine Kelly
St Ann's Hill Hydro is, unfortunately, long gone now. However it remains a source of fascination for me, and plenty of others too, and while doing research online last year [...]
Muskerry Light Railway
During the week I came across a fascinating video on the Twitter account of Irish Family Detective (thanks to Fiona for allowing me to share here). It is a video [...]
Elections and divorce
In just over ten days the 2019 Irish local elections will be held for all local authorities in Ireland on Friday, 24 May 2019, this happens on the same day [...]
Denis McCarthy Mahony
Denis McCarthy Mahony, 46, and his wife Mary, 43, stayed in one of the grand rooms in the main part of the Hydro hotel the night of March 31st 1901. [...]
Morning time in the Hydro
Vintage postcard showing Shournagh Valley from St Ann's Hydro Hotel If you were to travel along the road between Tower Cross and Shournagh bridge before 6am any morning [...]
Elijah Sewell
When I first started to collect the census information for the Tower area a number of years ago I made a list of people and names that caught my attention, [...]
Shenstone Bishop
One of the people who stayed in St Ann’s Hydro on the night of the 1911 census was involved in one of the most talked about sex scandals in Dublin’s [...]
Geoffrey Calverley
Mitchelstown Castle circa early 1900’s from the Great Irish Houses website There wasn’t too many children staying in St Anns’ Hydro hotel on the night of the census in 1901; [...]