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| Name: | Elizabeth Collopy |
| Comments: | Hey everyone in effin school its been a very long time. The school seems to be looking as good as ever. Its great to see so many past pupils getting in contact. I hope everyone is keeping well and all the best for the future x x x |
| Name: | Elizabeth Collopy |
| Comments: | Hey everyone in effin school its been a very long time. The school seems to be looking as good as ever. Its great to see so many past pupils getting in contact. I hope everyone is keeping well and all the best for the future x x x |
| Name: | aine kearney |
| Comments: | hey 2 all da effin people!!!!!!wats up?!?! missin ye loads ttyl(talk to ya l8r)XxXx |
| Name: | Annette Dillon |
| E-mail address: | annette.dillon@lycos.co.uk |
| Comments: | Hi,
Glad to see the website update - looking good. Was back in Brickfield last week - school looking good very modern since I was there - The Village is getting bigger. Hope to hear from anyone that remembers me - went to school say in the 70's!!!!:) Annette Dillon (Brickfield) |
| Name: | bob |
| E-mail address: | jk |
| Comments: | clancy is da worst teacher in da world!! she is a b*tch!! |
| Name: | gearóid barrett |
| Comments: | hi ta all da lads gud luk |
| Name: | Claudia Hudner |
| E-mail address: | claudiahudner@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | hey to ye all at effin!!! just looking at the page and its really good!!! theres some really funny photos!!!! well Id just like to say hi to my little sis sophie whos makin her communion and to evan!!!! cya 11
xxclaudiaxx |
| Name: | Dermot |
| Comments: | Is maith liom do scoil deas |
| Name: | James |
| E-mail address: | Leo |
| Homepage URL: | http://jamescleo@gmail.cop |
| Name: | jake stephens |
| Comments: | how you doing. |
| Name: | effin |
| Comments: | HOW ARE THINGS IN EFFIN I AM A FORMER PUPIL OF THE SCHOOL. I NOW LIVE IN AMERICA. I HOPE THE JUNIOR A TEAM ARE GETTING ON OK THESE DAYS. I HAVENT BEEN IN EFFIN IN THE LAST 30 YEARS. IT IS GREAT TO SEE PHOTOS OF THE AREA. I HOPE TO VISIT NEXT SUMMER |
| Name: | Wayne D |
| Comments: | Hi.
it is great to see the school is finally on the web it would be great if it was up dated because the photos are out of date. I would like to wish my former clas mates the best Tomas, Thomas , David , Willam , Nickie ,Ciaran, Flynn. |
| Name: | emma |
| E-mail address: | sherryorla@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | hi my name is emma and i go to kildimo national school 15 outside limerick city. i read your poems and saw your pictures of 5th and 6th class.
my teachers name is ms foley. what is the 5th and 6th teachers name in your school. i am making my confirmation in next year feb/march we dont have a lovely website like yours, maybe some day! goodbye lots of love emma xxxxxxx SEN |
| Name: | D................ |
| Comments: | I am a former pupil of effin national school especially the hurling and football.I have fond memories of all the teachers during my time their most of all Mr. O' Sullivan.
I would like to wish John Dillon the best of luck in his new post. |
| Name: | Monitorka |
| E-mail address: | monitorka@buziaczek.pl |
| Comments: | Hi!
I'm Monica. I from Poland, but your school is great! Greetings from Poland. Monica |
| Name: | Helen O'Sullivan |
| E-mail address: | osuulivanhelena@eircom.net |
| Comments: | Hello to my lovely niece Jacinta who just made her Holy Communion.She looked absolutelt gorgeous.Hello to my handsome nephew Thomas who is in senior infants.This web site is fab! |
| Name: | helen |
| Comments: | Hello to my lovely niece Jacinta and my brilliant nephew Thomas.It has been lovely to visit your school website. |
| Name: | sarah o brien |
| Comments: | hi everyone in effin, miss ye loads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
website needs to be updated because i am NOT still in 3rd class. say hi to danielle for me! |
| Name: | Tracy |
| E-mail address: | monica@mail.com |
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| Name: | Naomi |
| E-mail address: | nathan@pochta.net |
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| Name: | corinne &gemma |
| Comments: | hi all. Brill web badly needs up dating,otherwisegreat keep up the good work |
| Name: | pat6r=lsakp[0fd]d# |
| Name: | the girls |
| Comments: | good website, |
| Name: | Greg Staker |
| E-mail address: | greg@gregstaker.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.gregstaker.com |
| Comments: | Interesting story of Staker Wallis. |
| Name: | Ronnie Mullins |
| E-mail address: | rjmul64@aol.com |
| Comments: | Great site keep it up.I grew up in effin/garrienderk/thomastown.I have great memories of growing up there.Going to the (effin dances )on wednesday nights,played hurling there with Rocky Murphy/Conor Donovan/John Manning/the Dillons/Carrolls/Reas and many more .I left there in 1977 and moved to Newtownshandrum for a few years before emigrating to Boston Mass.I now work for the State Court System as what you would call a Guard/Warden.Well thanks for the memories and if anyone remembers me drop me an e. mail |
| Name: | Ronnie Mullins |
| E-mail address: | rjmul64@aol.com |
| Comments: | Great site keep it up.I grew up in effin/garrienderk/thomastown.I have great memories of growing up there.Going to the (effin dances )on wednesday nights,played hurling there with Rocky Murphy/Conor Donovan/John Manning/the Dillons/Carrolls/Reas and many more .I left there in 1977 and moved to Newtownshandrum for a few years before emigrating to Boston Mass.I now work for the State Court System as what you would call a Guard/Warden.Well thanks for the memories and if anyone remembers me drop me an e. mail |
| Name: | Sophie Kelly |
| E-mail address: | kellysophie@eircom.net |
| Comments: | When I checked the web pages for details of Effin I found your site. Your site is great - well done!
I am involved with Rathvilly Juvenile Football Club - we are travelling to Effin for 1,2,3 July 05 to participate in the Féile All Ireland Football competition. We have 18 U-14 players travelling. |
| Name: | Aine Dillon |
| E-mail address: | aine_effin@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | hi everyone great web page keep up the good work!!! went to school here between 87 to 96 enjoy your days at school because believe me there are the best days of your lives even if ye don't know it yet!!
lots of love Aine xxxx :-) |
| Name: | Ann-Marie Lyons |
| E-mail address: | Lyons41088@hotmail.net |
| Comments: | Class kep it up. |
| Name: | Ernie McCarthy |
| E-mail address: | ernmcc@optusnet.com.au |
| Homepage URL: | http://erniespatrickswell.com/ |
| Comments: | What a great page |
| Name: | Ernie McCarthy |
| E-mail address: | ernmcc@optusnet.com.au |
| Homepage URL: | http://erniespatrickswell.com/ |
| Comments: | What a great page |
| Name: | michael madigan |
| E-mail address: | michael@clanmadigan.fsnet.co.uk |
| Comments: | i am researching my family tree and would like to contact anyone with the surname madigan who went to Effin National School |
| Name: | Suzanne Knutzen |
| Comments: | Hi,
I liked your website. The photocube was really cool. I teach at a primary school in Washington State near Seattle. We have a lot of daffodils here, too. |
| Name: | Ciarán Barrett and W Collopy |
| Comments: | Hey to everyone in Effin n.s.
Hope ye are all learning a lot cos we're not! |
| Name: | James Regan |
| E-mail address: | mutharegan@aol.com |
| Comments: | Over the past few years i have been researching my family history and find your website to be very interesting. My ancestors the O'Regan's come from the area. My grandfather's sister Catherine Fitzgibbon and her daughters Ciss and Mona lived in Ballyhaught and operated a public house known over the years as Jerry's or Fitzgibbon's. This shop/pub was located at the crossroad known as Fitzgibbon'Cross or "J" Cross. the Fitzgibbon's operated the public house since the 1880's and it remained in the family until 1999 when Ciss the last of the family passed away.it is now known as Norman's Bar. Catherine was married to Jeremiah Fitzgibbon and they had five children - Ciss,Creena,Mammie,Mona and John. From want i have been able to determine the family was well known in the area and are all now buried in the Fitzgibbon family grave in Kilquane Cemetery. i was hoping that some of your former students may have known them or visited their shop/pub. I would greatly appreciate anyone who may have some information regarding Catherine and her daughters they would like to share with me contacting me email address mutharegan@aol.com or by mail at 2 Jefferson St. Garden City New York 11530 USA . thanks Jim Regan |
| Name: | Robert Kennedy |
| E-mail address: | Thewhizkidpro@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Just like to say hi to all the lads in effin. I really hope you up-date the web-site. It was excellent up till lately. Missing going to school in effin but getting on in Charleville C.B.S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Name: | Herlof sorensen |
| Comments: | Love the page. Ounce had a pen pal at Effein. Cathel? |
| Name: | Alex Bailey |
| E-mail address: | alex_bailey@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.a1technology.com |
| Comments: | We found your site to be one of the most interesting websites on the Internet. We rate it 8/10. Please do visit our site or click the following links, to view our creativity and do spare some time to review it. A-1 Technology, Inc. Our rating system would be up in a matter of few days. Regards, Alex Bailey |
| Name: | Amy and Danielle |
| E-mail address: | edmontonns.ias@tinet.ie |
| Comments: | Your website is very good and is very interesting.It is very quick at loading and very up to date.You have a very good menu. |
| Name: | kilkenny ns |
| Name: | Caoimhe Wall |
| E-mail address: | acclec44@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I am in 3rd class in St. Bridgets National School, Kilcullen, County Kildare. I liked your website very much. I am interested in your time capsule. What is in it?
Thank you. Caoimhe Wall |
| Name: | patricia ritovato |
| E-mail address: | patrit@midtel.net |
| Comments: | love your site. visited effin twice in past ten years. my greatgrandparents's children were bp. effin chapel, thomas sullivan married mary nagle, had 4 daughters and 1 son, patrick. any descendants? i live middburgh, ny. best wishes for a great site! pat |
| Name: | patricia ritovato |
| E-mail address: | patrit@midtel.net |
| Comments: | love your site. visited effin twice in past ten years. my greatgrandparents's children were bp. effin chapel, thomas sullivan married mary nagle, had 4 daughters and 1 son, patrick. any descendants? i live middburgh, ny. best wishes for a great site! pat |
| Name: | Maureen O'Sullivan |
| E-mail address: | mho@sanger.ac.uk |
| Comments: | Hey !
cool website. love it. have learnt a bit about effin from it! hello nools (!) mx |
| Name: | Maureen O'Sullivan |
| E-mail address: | mho@sanger.ac.uk |
| Comments: | Hey !
cool website. love it. haev learnt a bit about effin from it! hello nools (!) mx |
| Name: | Anne Marie Cleary |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.o2.ie |
| Comments: | Great site keep it updated. Liked the photo gallery.Keep sports updated like the ones for this year. |
| Name: | Helen Sheehy |
| E-mail address: | helensheehy@eircom.net |
| Comments: | Helen Sheehy |
| Name: | Hugh A. Shanahan |
| E-mail address: | h_shanah@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Dia Duit:
Several members of my immediate Shanahan family are buried at the Effin RC Cemetery. They were members of Holy Cross RC Church in Charleville, but were buried in Effin? Family line starts in Charleville in 1797 and ends with the death of William "Uncle Billy" Shanahan at a nursing home in Limerick City in 1989. These Shanahans were the blacksmiths in Charleville, and their shop was still there in 1986, near the church. If you have any information concerning this Shanahan family and would enjoy exchanging information, please contact me at the Email address shown. Slan go foil, Hugh A. Shanahan |
| Name: | Mary-Claire Woolley |
| E-mail address: | mcw87@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Its great to see the site. Its brill ! . |
| Name: | Viktoria Balanzategui |
| E-mail address: | ninemile@ozemail.com.au |
| Comments: | Hey, great website! My teacher, Mrs Moran showed me and my classmates this website today, and I decided to check it out myself. I read some of the poems and they were great. Thanks for writing the thank-you to Canossa School on this website. While checking the website this afternoon we were more than happy to see it. I would love to go to Ireland one day, and if I do I would love to visit this great school. Thank-you to the fifth and sixths grades for being our pen-pals here in Canossa, we love receiving letters and emails when we do. The priest who help found our school was an Irishmen called Father O'Meara. |
| Name: | Canossa Yr 4-7 children |
| E-mail address: | trbne@ceo.tsv.catholic.edu.au |
| Comments: | Thanks for your message.
What a great website! The poems you have written are great. We might try writing some at some stage, but not at the moment as we are getting ready for holidays and already have more than enough to do! |
| Name: | Mikey&Eilish Ryan |
| E-mail address: | none |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.eircom.net |
| Comments: | Very nice webstite. Good information on staker himself,not much else say hi to the Treacys for us
UP KILFINANE |
| Name: | Hugh Connolly |
| E-mail address: | hugh.connolly@hfs.ennis.tinet.ie |
| Homepage URL: | http://hfss.ennis.ie |
| Comments: | Excellent Site! |
| Name: | Helen o'Dywer |
| E-mail address: | metro@oceanfree.net |
| Comments: | Hi to any old pupils who attended effin school around 1961/65. Anybody out there remember me.
Helen |
| Name: | Ballyfacey N.S. |
| E-mail address: | ballyfacey.ias@eircom.net |
| Comments: | We loved your website weldone please look at ours it will be on the net in 1 month. |
| Name: | John Fitzgerald |
| E-mail address: | jnfgerald@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello to everyone at effin
I went to school in effin in the 60's with Matt Rea, David Barrett, and lots more trouble makers!! but we had a great time thanks to Mr. Magner and Mrs Murphy. I don't think computers were in our wildest dreams when we were at school but soccer out in the yard was great, lots of grazed knees and sore shins. I am currently working as a project manager for a construction company in Sydney and the job takes me all over Australia. Keep up the good work and I will continue to visit the website for updates. John Fitzgerald Ex New Park now Sydney |
| Name: | David Moloney |
| E-mail address: | Damol@iol.ie |
| Comments: | Effin Cemetery between Charleville & Kilmallock
Gravestone Inscriptions. Da Mol - May 2002 Thomas Sarsfield died May 16th 1763 aged 30 yrs this being the burying place of his family Michael Sarsfield Sen died Nov 7th 1802 aged 60 yrs And his son John died June 2nd 1790 aged 28 yrs. Also Garret Sarsfield died Sept 25th 1806 aged 73 yrs his son John died Nov 10th 1814 aged 52 yrs. May they rest in Peace. Michael Sarsfield of Charleville. Wm Sarsfield of Ardskee Renewed Burial Place. Beneath this Record of Mortality are deposited the remains of Owen Sarsfield who departed life may 24th 1779 aged 70 yrs Also his wife Ellen Sarsfield alias Shanahan who departed life April 16th 1797 aged 80 yrs. May they rest in peace Amen. To perpetuate the memory of tender & affectionate parents. Erected by their sons. This stone was erected by Garret Sarsfield in memory of his wife Catherine Sarsfield alias Garlan who departed life 1797 aged 34 yrs & his son Garret Sarsfield who departed this life April 1799 aged 19 yrs. May they rest in Peace. Here lieth the body of James Russell who departed this life Dec 28th 1779 aged 92 yrs. The lord be merciful to his soul Erected by Michael Russell of Charleville in memory of his wife Debaragh Russell alias Sarsfield who departed lift Sept 1804 aged 60 years, also his son Michael Russell died 1802 aged 17 years. Erected by Michael Ryan of Bruree Lodge to the memory of his beloved father Kennedy Ryan of Moatville who departed this life 1827 aged 42 Also his mother Deborah Ryan (nee Russell) who died 1858 aged 75. and his brother Kennedy Ryan who died Feb 6th 1868 aged 38years ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RUSSELL STONE VAULT Family Monument Erected by Michael Russell of Charleville 1807 Monument - Erected by Mrs. Catherine Russell Sullivan in memory of son Richard Russell Maume Esq. died 1834 aged 34 years Debra Shanahan Erected this in memory of her husband Richard Shanahan who died 9br the 10th 1797 aged 60 yrs May he rest in peace Amen Query is there any record of the family members buried in the Russell Vault ? |
| Name: | David Moloney |
| E-mail address: | Damol@iol.ie |
| Comments: | Descendants of John Russell Moloney.1800-1893
( Son of John Moloney & Maria Russell of Mount Russell ) John Russell Moloney c.1800-93, farmed 78 acres in the townland of Garriencoona South near Effin in Co. Limerick. He leased the land from James Russell Esq. of Mount-Russell Three of his six children Patrick aged 27, Elizabeth (Eliza) aged 19 and Ellen (Helena) aged 15 immigrated to Victoria, Australia in 1863 on board the Royal Dane. Patrick became a dairy and tillage farmer at Lovely Banks, which was on the bay near Geelong, west of Melbourne now the site of the Sell Oil Refinery. He died a bachelor in 1912 aged 76 years leaving an estate valued at nearly £7,000 consisting of 665 acres with 67 cows. A memorial stained glass window in memory of Patrick can be viewed at the Church of St. Peter and Paul, Mercer Street, Geelong. By the age of twenty eight Elizabeth had established herself in business in Clunes, where she owned the Town Hall Hotel. Clunes was Victoria’s first gold town. She placed an advertisement in the Clunes Guardian and Gazette, Newspapers on 3rd. Sept.1872. This building still stands and is a two storey with a stucco plastered facade and a cast iron verandah. The clock in the kitchen and the mirror in the dining room at Tourello (descendant’s farmstead) are from the hotel. Eliza is listed as the Publican of the hotel for the years 1872-3-4 in the Clunes Rate Books. The first discovery of gold in Victoria was made at Clunes in 1851, further discoveries were made the next year in the surrounding area. When news of the gold strike reached Melbourne and Geelong officials and clerks walked out of their offices, manual workers dropped their tools, to join the gold rush. Stories abounded of gold nuggets worth a fortune picked up of the ground. In time sailing ships arrived from around the world with gold prospectors. Ships were abandoned by their crews who found the lure of finding gold and instant wealth, irresistible. At first gold was mined by panning the gold bearing soils and gravels in the bed of streams. Panning involved scooping up material with water in a pan, swirling the contents to wash and sift out the lighter materials until only the heavier gold was left, if lucky. Tourello, Creswick, Victoria, Aus. circa.1875 In 1875 Elizabeth married Daniel Lenaghan and they farmed at Tourello, near Creswick, which is eighty miles north-west of Melbourne. Daniel’s father had emigrated from Lurgan, Co. Armagh in 1852 with his wife and seven of his ten children. They headed for the goldfields of Ballarat. The Lenaghan’s original selection comprised 300 acres, of lightly timbered and mainly scrub land. Their neighbour and friend was Peter Lalor the leader of the famous Eureka Stockade of 1854; a battle between miners, mainly Irish and Government forces in which 26 were killed. The rebellion, which was against high gold licence fees and lack of citizen’s rights, is regarded as a milestone in the struggle for democracy in Australia. Peter went on to be a parlimentary representative in Victoria. As a farmers-wife Elizabeth made and sold butter under the “Tourello-Clover” mark. This she packed into a large wooden box surrounded with salt and covered with wet bags, and drove the pony and gig to Ballarat each week to sell it. She would return with the weekly groceries. She also sold butter in Clunes and to regular clients who called at Tourello. Their descendants still live on the original homestead where they breed sheep for wool and grow potatoes, cereal crops and canola. Canola is an oilseed crop. The plant produces a yellow flower. The seeds are crushed to obtain canola oil that is used in cooking, salads and baking. Creswick was a gold mining town with a population of 60,000. Today's population is just 2,700. Helena (Ellen) married James Wallis a Timber Merchant, in 1873 at St. Augustines Church, Creswick and had seven children. James was originally from Somerset Shire in England and was a widower of eight years. He gave an undertaking for any children of the marriage to be baptised and brought up in the faith of the Roman Catholic Church. Prior to her marriage she lived in Clunes probably working with her sister Elizabeth. Helena died aged thirty nine on the 5th January 1887, after 14 years of marriage, followed a year later by her husband leaving seven children. At the time of her death, her youngest Annie-Veronica was just six months and James her eldest was 13 years. Her sister Elizabeth reared four of the children at Tourello along with her seven children, making eleven children under 13 years, a remarkable achievement. Patrick, Elizabeth and Helena’s fathers first cousin Charles Moloney 1822-72 had previously emigrated from Knocklong and set up home at Little Scotland a suburb of Geelong. Charles sailed from Hobartown, Tasmania on the ship David and landed in Port Phillip (Melbourne) in June 1846. This is the earliest record of a known Moloney cousin in Australia. In 1847 Charles married Ellen Brodrick at St. Francis Church, Lonsdale Street, in the hearth of Melbourne. They did not have children. He farmed at Lovely Banks, Geelong. The April 18th 1850 edition of the Geelong Advertiser, lists Charles as an Elector to the Legislative Council, his address was Little Scotland a suburb in the north west of Geelong. Geelong prospered as the seaport for the gold district. By the mid 1850's Geelong was the fourth largest town in Australia. He is buried with his wife in the Old Roman Catholic section of Eastern Cemetery Geelong. Charles’ name is inscribed on the family’s gravestone in Ballingarry Cemetery, Glenbrohane, Co. Limerick. |
| Name: | Marilyn Yezek |
| E-mail address: | myezek@aol.com |
| Comments: | You have a great website!! I really enjoyed your pictures of Effin and the surrounding area. My great-great grandmother Bridget Carroll and her aunts and uncles (Carrolls, Walshes, Quinlns and Mahoneys) immigrated from Effin to St. Louis, Missouri in the 1840s. It is nece to see where myfamily is from. Thanks! |
| Name: | Sinead O Carroll |
| E-mail address: | Neady2ie@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello everyone at Effin N.S School!!!! Espically my cousins Mary and Fiona Browne, Robert and Serene Kennedy and Sarah Sheridan.Love the website,have a great year!!! |
| Name: | Tanjua Damon |
| E-mail address: | tanjua@thebee.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.newtownbee.com |
| Comments: | I am the education reporter here in Newtown, CT, where students from your school correspond with students at Head O' Meadow. Just wanted to check our your school site. You are an amazing group of people who have made a large impact on students here. It's been a pleasure to be a part of this experience. |
| Name: | Belinda Moran |
| E-mail address: | trbne@ceo.tsv.catholic.edu.au |
| Comments: | I found your website by accident and have spent a pleasurable 20 minutes getting to know you all.
I am a principal at a small Catholic primary school in Queensland, Australia.My school's name is Canossa Primary School. We have 42 children from Preschool to Year 7. My husband's relatives are from Ireland, Co. Mayo. To keep his Irish heritage alive we have named our first son Seamus. I am envious that such a small school has a great website such as yours. We are working on establishing our own. Hopefully one day you will come across it on the net. |
| Name: | John Schroeter |
| E-mail address: | kentschroet@aol.com |
| Comments: | My great grandmother was a Cleary from Effin and I found your site by accident. I was very impressed, good job all.Glad to see a small place become part of the new technology. Keep it up. John in the USA |
| Name: | diarmuid o' regan |
| Comments: | hello everybody. id love to b back in effin . soccer at lunch was the best ever. its all down hill after national school ... so enjoy it ! bye x |
| Name: | Anne Marie |
| E-mail address: | www.gersbird@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Nice website.
Effin becoming very technologically advanced. Say hi to Nuala. Hope she is well Keep up the good work by keeping Effin on the web |
| Name: | Michael Ryan |
| E-mail address: | ryanml@eircom.net |
| Comments: | Glad to see that yours is a progressive school |
| Name: | Gerry Mc Laughlin |
| E-mail address: | adhmad_dubh@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Dear Students,
My Mother-in-law from Bulgaden is visiting me in Mullingar for the week. Please no M-in-L jokes! I've heard them all!I am from Moy, Co Tyrone and happened to marry a Limerick woman. Woe is me!! We stumbled upon your web page by accident while surfing the net looking for information on Bulgaden and Kilmallock. Well done to all the students and teachers for an excellent site. I visited St Paul's Convent, Kilfinnan only last Sunday and on my way back to Bulgaden...Yes I got lost...and what did I find on my lost journey among the hills but a high cross with information on the Staker Wallis. To read your account (s) was interesting to say the least and so coincidential. I had never heard of this guy before. Take a bow, you have brought a little bit of Irish history alive for this blow -in Ulsterman. Well done indeed. |
| Name: | Susan Dillon |
| E-mail address: | dillonsusan@eircom.net |
| Comments: | just want to say hi to all my class mates in 4th
and to my teacher Mrs Clancy bye Susan |
| Name: | Annette Dillon |
| E-mail address: | annettedillon@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I would like to wish all a Happy new year and hope 2002 will bring much more for us all
Regards, Annette |
| Name: | Agnes Bateman (nee Kelleher) |
| E-mail address: | erkin@eircom.net |
| Comments: | I am originally from the parish of Effin/Garrienderk but attended Charleville school in the 50s/early 60s.
I want to congratulate you on your excellent web site on Effin National school. I spent many memorable nights in the Canon Hayes Memorial Hall, Effin. Keep up the good Work, Agnes |
| Name: | Peggie Montgomery |
| E-mail address: | peggie@agulftel.com |
| Comments: | I am a first grade teacher at Foley Elementary School. I am also Catholic. Foley Elementary is in Foley, Alabama, USA. Our Nun at our parish is from Ireland. She is a really wonderful person. I have visited England several times and our English friends came over to visit us this summer. I am of Irish decent and I am proud of this fact.
We have over 500 students at our school. I found your website very, very flattering. I want you as a school to be proud of the technology that you have and what wonderful job the staff of your school did with your school website. God Bless you and keep you safe. P.S. I am jealous of your country school!!! |
| Name: | Helen O'Neill |
| E-mail address: | honeill@limerickcoco.ie |
| Comments: | I went to Effin School a while back and found this web site
today while doing a training course. Just thought I would sign up Helen |
| Name: | Kieran Murphy |
| E-mail address: | eanddmurphy@oceanfree.net |
| Comments: | Hello to all at Effin school and a special hello to Mrs Clancy and all in 3rd class |
| Name: | Joanne O' Donnell |
| E-mail address: | manister@iol.ie |
| Comments: | We have your Effin Priest. Guess who? |
| Name: | Herlof Sorensen |
| Comments: | WOW!Your website is one of the best website's I've ever seen.Now that I've been to it I can'nt what to go back to it.
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| Name: | Wayne Dillon |
| E-mail address: | dillonwayne@eircom.net |
| Comments: | I Have read the home page and i am very impressed i am a padt student of the school.it is a very good school.slan! wayne |
| Name: | Annette Dillon |
| E-mail address: | annettedillon@hotline.com |
| Comments: | Great Website - Good to see all the old faces !
Will get in touch again soon. from Annette Dillon, Brickfield, Effin Kilmallock, Co Limerick now residing in Birmingham, England. Annette |
| Name: | avril |
| E-mail address: | Avril9@dol.ie |
| Comments: | My brother went to your school.we lived in effin his name
is adam foley he was telling me about all the people he knew in the school is mrs flynn still ther we enjoyed the web page bye aveil |
| Name: | Patrick Kelleher |
| E-mail address: | kangawallabat@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | I was searching for "the lament for staker wallace" to
learn and play in an upcoming competition when, thanks to Colette I found and recorded it. Is Colette a pupil at the school? She is certainly a brilliant musician. (This is the only place I found the tune, after half an hour of searching) Thankyou for the help, great page... |
| Name: | Paul O'Brien |
| E-mail address: | PaulOBrienSnr@aol.comI |
| Comments: | I enjoyed the story about the hero 'Staker Wallis', however there is an error in one of its passages, you describe an outraged Wallis attempted to make the prisoner talk, when it should have been an outraged Oliver? |
| Name: | mary claire woolley |
| E-mail address: | mc cute 2001 |
| Comments: | hi lads. hows mr o . I was surfin aroud and I found ye in
the end. any news . I sure ye are having a great time. the website is great. Next time ye are on the coputer give me a shout. Im of to class so cya. |
| Name: | Alfred-Delp-Schule, Geseke. Germany |
| E-mail address: | AlfDelp@t-online.de |
| Comments: | I enjoyed your page, well done!
Michael Schmidt |
| Name: | Lisa Moloney |
| Comments: | hello to all!!
well done on a brill website. it brings back a lot of good memories. Love the photos. Keep up the good work. See ye lisa. |
| Name: | Gaelscoil Cheatharlach |
| E-mail address: | cgscoil@iol.ie |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.iol.ie/~cgscoil |
| Comments: | Lovely site,very easy to navigate,well done! |
| Name: | John McCarthy |
| E-mail address: | rety2k@aol.com |
| Comments: | I'm always searching for leads to my great-grandparents
John McCarthy and Mary O'Keefe who were married in a church in Garrindurk as it was then spelled. Congratulations to those responsible for creating this website. I hope to visit there soon. |
| Name: | James Carroll |
| E-mail address: | james.carroll@ireland.com |
| Name: | Denise, Joanne O Brien. |
| Comments: | Hello everybody.Fantastic website,really enjoyed it.We
started our schooldays in Effin.We left in 1994.We are now in Borrisoleigh, N Tipperary.We will visit again soon. |
| Name: | Marilyn Nelson-Ehret |
| E-mail address: | ehretrm@msn.com |
| Comments: | Staker Wallace was my grandfather 5 generations back. My
daughter, Suzanne Mustacich, visited Kilfinane for the 200 years celebration. I will visit Kilfinane in July 2001. I look forward to visiting your beautiful country. I live in Gig Harbor, Washington, USA. It is a small town on a small saltwater harbor. |
| Name: | Tony dillon |
| Comments: | I was a student at this school a long long time ago. I love
your the way ye had out your website laid out. I see the school is bringing back cups to the school.Best wishes Tony. |
| Name: | Annette Ahern. |
| E-mail address: | aahern@iolfree.ie |
| Comments: | Glad to see your on the Web. Hope Kilmallock school will
follow you |
| Name: | Pat Dillon |
| Comments: | Fantastic site. Very well presented. Even a techno-phobe
like me could follow ye're clear guidelines. Brought back some great memories. Best of luck in all that ye do, and keep up the very good work.Take care. |
| Name: | Patrick mcGarvey |
| E-mail address: | psychicpat@hotmail.cmn |
| Comments: | I was in the south of ireland a Long time ago
some one else's dreams |
| Name: | Malin |
| E-mail address: | bugaloo15@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Happened upon your site while searching for family
information. Fantastic job!!! Really enjoyed reading all the stories and poems by the children. Will look back later. |
| Name: | Laura Hurley |
| E-mail address: | lhclogher@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | The website is brill. I am surfing teh web at St. Marys
Secondary school and though it was a good iea to check teh site out. bye! |
| Name: | Caroline Grace |
| E-mail address: | jcgrace@onetel.net.uk |
| Comments: | nee Caroline Fitzgerald, Newpark. |
| Name: | Garrett Ryan |
| E-mail address: | solar_ie@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Love the website, really well put together and easy to
navigate. Brought back memories of my school days there. Thank you all for the teaching |
| Name: | James Carroll |
| E-mail address: | g96bf091@student.ucd.ie |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.ucd.ie |
| Comments: | Excellent representation of the school and the parish |
| Name: | Nina & Linden Tweddle |
| E-mail address: | linden.twe1@virgin.net |
| Comments: | We came across your website in error - but have had great
fun learning about your school. The pictures were fun. What about a history of the teachers? Keep up the good work. |
| Name: | James Cross |
| Comments: | Just browsing and came across your web. Wonderful and a
tribute to you all. |
| Name: | Garrett Ryan |
| E-mail address: | rcomputer@eircom.net |
| Comments: | hi everyone in school garrett here. Love the website it is
really informative and very well put together. Hello to all the teachers and the pupils.Thank you for the lovely years in school there they were great even if they didn't seem so at the time. Bye see you all soon. Garrett |
| Name: | Laura Hurley |
| E-mail address: | lhclogher@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I really enjoyed the site. |
| Name: | Johanna Roche |
| E-mail address: | 9618309@student.ul.ie |
| Comments: | Hi everyone!
It's nice to know that Effin N.S. has entered the information super-highway! Well done and keep up the good work. P.S. Destroy those embarassing photos! Johanna Roche. |
| Name: | Sheila O'Gorman |
| E-mail address: | ogorman-sheila@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Congratulations on your very interesting web page.I teach
in a large primary school in Carrigtwohill Co .Cork.At the moment we are looking forward to our School Tour to Rome in March.We are flying from Cork on March 30th and will have 4 days in Rome. At the moment we are busy learning all about the history of Ancient Rome and the many historic sites we intend visiting.Again good luck in your Computing |
| Name: | Kathy Dinkel |
| E-mail address: | lexce_kwd@ncocc-k12.org |
| Comments: | Please visit my school's web site at
http://central.vbcomm.net/ I think yours is really cool!! Happy almost St. Patrick's Day! |
| Name: | mary mandreit |
| E-mail address: | mary.mandreit@cableinet.co.uk |
| Comments: | Well done the site is very interesting, well set out and a
credit to your school. Keep up the good work. |
| Name: | Michelle Fennessy |
| E-mail address: | Eim@oceanfree.net |
| Comments: | I found the web site very interesting & also rather
enjoyable. Brought back memories !!.... |
| Name: | Baggot St. Dublin2 |
| E-mail address: | baggotcbs.ias@eircom.net |
| Comments: | Dear Pupils, |
| Name: | DECLAN & DAMIEN MOLONEY |
| E-mail address: | keano7@eircom.net |
| Comments: | brilliant website,look forward to further additions. |
| Name: | Mary Doona |
| E-mail address: | kifet.ias@eircom.net |
| Comments: | I enjoyed your web page keep up the good work |
| Name: | Phyl Kearney, Washington, USA |
| E-mail address: | ephylkea@hctc.com |
| Comments: | E-mailed you before I came upon this spot. I`m a past
pupil, I think I must be the oldest signature in your book as I don`t recall any of the names Printed here. Give my regards to the Kearney pupils, I`m their Aunt. |
| Name: | Helena |
| E-mail address: | 9848754@student.ul.ie |
| Comments: | Excellent web page and also nice to see such a small place
like Effin "on the map". Keep up the good work. |
| Name: | Catherine Roche |
| E-mail address: | cayte_roche@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Well Im very impressed with your web page and all those
embarracing photos of years ago!!! . Anyway it brings back memories so 'maith oraibh agus slan anois'.(God I hope I spelled that right) Well Done |
| Name: | Elizabeth Davenport |
| E-mail address: | kingfisher@stlnet.com |
| Comments: | What a happy surprise to find your most interesting web
page and learn more about your school and the neighborhood. I'm researching my Heaphy/Mahony ancestors who left Parish Effin about 1843 and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. Their grave markers proudly proclaim their Parish Effin origin. |
| Name: | Kate Hickey |
| E-mail address: | http://www.tinet.ie |
| Comments: | Great Site keep up the good work!!!! |
| Name: | charlotte |
| Comments: | Great website! |
| Name: | Joseph Naughton |
| E-mail address: | bregas@indigo.ie |
| Comments: | Really enjoyed your site. Very informative. I come from
Kilmallock but have been teaching in Limerick for over 30 years. I'm trying very hard to get the hang of all this IT stuff. I hurled with Kilmallock in the sixties and won two county senior hurling titles. I teach in Scoil Íde.We have a staff of 30 teachers and 900 pupils.We hope to have our website up and running in a few weeks. Best of luck. |
| Name: | P.S. O Callanain |
| E-mail address: | pocwell.ias@tinet.ie |
| Homepage URL: | http://homepage.tinet.ie/~craughwell |
| Comments: | Comhghairdeachas muintir Eifine, idir mhuinteoiri agus
phaisti. Is brea an suiomh ata agaibh agus bhain me an- taitneamh as. Ta se feicealach agus beoga thar barr agus obair dheas o na paisti. Ta sibh molta as. Go maire sibh. |
| Name: | Tom Maloney |
| E-mail address: | grassy4@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/a/l/Thomas-D-Maloney |
| Comments: | You have done a fantastic job. The site is well-organized
and has lots of interesting information. A special hello to my cousin Damian Moloney. |
| Name: | Amy Higgins Tull |
| E-mail address: | DATULL@aol.com |
| Comments: | Congratulations on an informative and enjoyable site! My
mother's family came from the Effin/Charleville area, immigrating to Boston in the US in the 1830s. Thanks for sharing your community with all of us. Amy in Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA |
| Name: | emer ryan ,elaine buckley |
| E-mail address: | ? |
| Comments: | Hi its us again. Thank you for those wonderful,beautiful
years of excellent teaching.We miss the homework and especially the COMHRA.WE ARE FINE AND STRONG AFTER ALL THAT PE.Catherine and Sheena send their regaurds and you will always be with us.BYE FOR NOW. |
| Name: | John Hayes |
| E-mail address: | @telecom.ie |
| Comments: | I was a former pupil in Effin from 1960-68 approx.
I was delighted to see the school on the WEB. |
| Name: | Alan |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.rmplc.co.uk/sites/nusnkt |
| Comments: | Oops,
forgot the school link I mentioned. the YETI NET one was http://www.yeti-net.org Alan |
| Name: | Alan |
| E-mail address: | alan.johnson@dial.pipex.com |
| Comments: | HI,
thanks for the information on the site. I wanted to find local info as I am just about to visit our eldest daughter who has a job at Mount Coote Stud up to December. She just finished a diploma course in Newmarket and won a travel scollarship which she will use to work in Australia from Yr. 2000. I hope to take a look round for a few days so I may just pass your school, keep up the good work. See the link provided for the school pages where I work and also take a look at httoP//www.yeti-net.org which is a European site I am doing some work with. Best wishes Alan |
| Name: | Daisy Laghmich (nee Sheedy) |
| E-mail address: | d.sheedy@lcp.linst.ac.uk |
| Comments: | Well done on such a wonderful webpage. I am from Kilmallock
but have been living in London for 9 years now. It is always nice to find something about home on the internet. I have cousins living in Effin and spent a lot of time in the area when I was younger. Keep up the good work. |
| Name: | Katharine Keeble |
| E-mail address: | keeble@customnet.net |
| Comments: | I'm hoping to actually visit your school while on a visit
from the U.S. in August. You have an impressive webpage!! |
| Name: | Terry Dillon |
| E-mail address: | lahia.d@virgin.net |
| Comments: | Great webpage. See you in September. |
| Name: | Sr. Bernadette Maria |
| E-mail address: | srncv@iol.ie |
| Comments: | Very impressed and enjoyed visit to your website. Well
done. Enjoy the holidays. |
| Name: | Esther Finn |
| E-mail address: | hfs.ias@tinet.ie |
| Comments: | Enjoyed your web site. Keep up the good work. Hopefully we will be joining you in September.I work in Holy Family School in Charleville. |
| Name: | Sarah Kearney |
| E-mail address: | ardsheag@iol.iea |
| Homepage URL: | http://ardskeagh |
| Comments: | enjoying the holidays. Looking forward to seeing ye all in
September. Sarah, Paul, Michael & Margaret Kearney 3rd July 1999 |
| Name: | Eamonn Walsh |
| E-mail address: | walsheamonn@hotmail |
| Comments: | A very nice site, keep up the good work.
I went to school in Ardpatrick 25 years ago and remember playing your school in hurling and football matches. Eamonn Walsh Los Angleles, California |
| Name: | Owen Coll |
| E-mail address: | Owen.Coll@tesco.net |
| Comments: | This is an email for Thomas Carroll.
I've just gone live on the net and found your excellent web site. Hope to see you and your family again soon. Andrew says he hopes the football practice he gave you last year has made you a budding David Beckham! Uncle Owen |
| Name: | Sarah Kearney |
| E-mail address: | hejo@indigo.ie |
| Comments: | Greetings from Bettystown,Co. Meath. Hi Miss Toomey and all
my friends. SARAH, MARGARET, MICHAEL, PAUL, HELEN AND JOOP |
| Name: | Susan Carroll |
| E-mail address: | susancarroll2@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I never realised such a site existed. Is it a big secret or something, it was a nice surprise to find though. All the pupils must feel privileged at all the resources they have on offer. Keep up the good work it's great experience! |
| Name: | MARY O KELLY |
| Comments: | Thank you for all those years of teaching. |
| Name: | Una & Luc |
| Name: | Elaine banville |
| E-mail address: | wexford |
| Comments: |
UP WEXFORD!!!! |
| Name: | Pat and Elaine O'Connor Keaney |
| E-mail address: | gkeaney@tinet.ie |
| Comments: | Congratulations on your great site and a special message to Laura Hurley for her lovely story on Irish dancing!
Keep up the great work. From: the Sligo branch of the O' Connor Academy. We will visit again soon! |
| Name: | tom kearney |
| E-mail address: | tkearney@iol.ie |
| Name: | Robert L. Buckley |
| E-mail address: | rlbuckley@webtv.net |
| Comments: | Enjoyed your web page very much. My great grandparents were from the Kilmallock area. Keep up the good work!
Robert Buckley Washington, DC USA |
| Name: | michael rea |
| E-mail address: | michaelrea @ tinet.ie |
| Comments: | Excellent site,very well presented and put together.
We will visit on a regular basis from now on--keep up the good work!!!! |
| Name: | James Riley |
| E-mail address: | JRRILEY@Prodigy.net |
| Comments: | Hello from San Jose, California, USA. Enjoyed your
wonderful WEB page and was excited to see information about the Effin area. My Grandmother, Ann Quinlan, was born on the townland of Gurranekeagh in 1878. I am related to the Donald O'Leary family that currently resides there. We visited your lovely area in 1992 and plan to return there this September. Keep up the Good Work at your fine school. |
| Name: | sheila oconnor-rea tcrg adcrg |
| E-mail address: | danrea@iol.ie |
| Comments: | Love your page. Congratulations.
Enjoyed Laura Hurley's story. Good girl Laura. I am very proud of her. - Sheila |
| Name: | Alice O'Connell |
| E-mail address: | aliceoc@iol.ie |
| Comments: | Loved your site. We hope to have our Web-page up and
running very soon here at St. Mary's Convent N.S. in Cobh. Maybe you'll visit us then. Well done! |
| Name: | aidan Byrne |
| E-mail address: | ABYRN216@STJOHNS.EDU |
| Name: | Marie Devine |
| E-mail address: | zuabecorgu@bluewin.ch |
| Comments: | Congratulations- it´s brilliant. |
| Name: | Margaret O'Reilly |
| E-mail address: | oreillymar@aol.com |
| Comments: | Your webpage is terrific. Kudos to the staff and students at Effin National School. Margaret O'Reilly |
| Name: | Pat Healy Fermoy Credit Union |
| E-mail address: | fcu@tinet.ie |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.blackwater.ie~fcu |
| Comments: | Congratulations on an excellent site |
| Name: | zoe bourke |
| Name: | George |
| E-mail address: | gpurdy@tinet.ie |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.angelfire.com/hi/umlaut12 |
| Comments: | Hi all,
Very well done! Great site--keep up the good work! |
| Name: | Bríd |
| E-mail address: | bridandmairtin@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/brid/index.html |
| Comments: | very impressed by your pages keep up the good work! |