Today was a busy and full day. We started by working at the public records office in Dublin. Who would have guessed how many books on marriages, deaths and births you could go through in one day. We went through quite a few names and some misses before we found our first matches for the trip. We were able to confirm marriages for one of Hugh McKenna’s children and a couple of other direct hits to add to our records. We are excited to find even more.
You can only get 5 copies of records per person per day, so after we finished with our 20 copies, we checked out of the hotel and headed to Emyvale. We visited a cathedral on the way where John McKenna had been given recognition and memorialized in one of the stain glass windows.
After that we visited a cemetery where the McKenna clan chieftans had been buried. We took down some additional names from here that we will try to do their work as well.
We also visited a hill where a McKenna clan had a three ring fortress built. Please ignore the 4 grown men trespassing across someone’s fence and onto private property.
We also took a drive around the country side and stopped and talked to a really nice norseman. He invited us in for coffee, but we politely declined. The people here in Ireland are really nice.
We are staying tonight at the Lodge at Leslie Castle. We are tired but excited to continue on the search tomorrow in Belfast.
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