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Location: Coolcoulaghta
Surnames/tags: Sweeney McCarthy
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from Din
Patrick Daily and Kate Sweeney married in Bantry in Jan/ March Quarter 1884 Volume 5 page 36
I think that John Sweeney's (married to Ellen McCarthy) father was born in 1822 Apr 29th. His father was Owen (John or Eugene translated) Sweeney and mother was Mary Harrington. If you get the marriage cert for Pat Daly and Kate Sweeney I will be able to find out if they are the same Daly Clan. My great grand mother's oldest sister was a Michael Sweeney stood for her.
from Fabian Sweeney
I think Din has the wrong sprout of family connection. I am confused and took it he meant G-Grandfather Michael Sweeney's parents were Owen Sweeney & Mary Harrington. This is the first time I have seen Sweeney (McSuibhne) connections beyond my Grandfathers documented parents Michael & Ellen Mahony on his death certificate. Since he was illiterate, tracing back records to the 1700s will be difficult except through the mothers in the family or Catholic parish birth registries and both Parish & records had to be hidden from the Establishment English controllers - and now the Mormons control those records.
My Grandma Ellen McCarthy spoke about a tall Stanley, her grandfather, who could jump a rowing oar on the shoulders of two men on the beach. He was a C of E Parson in W.Cork & 4th or 7th? son of son Establishment aristocrat. There were several tall Sweeney's in my generation who had those McCarthy champion high jumping genes. This McCarthy/Stanley connection may be solved by one of the Youngrove McCarthy's researching further.
There were Establishment & apparently wealthy McCarthy Moores living 'over Dunmanus Bay' which mansion I could see west of Coolcoulaghta.
Din corrected me, the Coolcoulaghta Mountain is Mt Gabriel. It was a windswept lump of barrenness on which local gossip had a USA defence communications outfit on top in 1996.
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