Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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   “In May 1846 - Right Rev. Bishop Brown of the Diocese of Elphin administered the sacrament of confirmation to 145 persons...”

   

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   27 May 1845. Married in Galway - by the Rev B. Roche VG. PP. by special license from the Arch Bishop of Tuam - Michael McNamara Esq. Solicitor T.C.to Honoria, Josephine daughter of John Kirwan Esq.,Glann Co Galway
   18 June 1845. At the church of Dunmore, and afterwards at the residence of her father according to the rites of the Catholic Church by Rev Dr Loftus PP of Dunmore, Lewis George Dive Esq only son of LG Dive of Shortlands, Swansea South Wales to Eliza Mary daughter of JJ Bodkin Esq MP Kilcloony Co Gaway.

   

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2. Ballintubber Abbey Co. Galway

   

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   1845. The historical associations connected with this Abbey have been faithfully handed down from father to son; to this day can be painted out where the priest fell under the knife of the assassin; and the place where the remains of the sacrilegious murders as interred, is still shown by the people of the Antiquarian as the grave of the wicked " Shawn na Saqast." Past if the old three is yet to be seen which grew out of the grave of this monster, and again shot into another past of the same grave-- as if to designate, by its crooked and unatural growth, the torturous and devious course pursued by this unfortunate individual

   

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