I would like to get ahold of a Jarlath Brophy who's mother knew Kilkennyss - I have the following email which I would like to know more of. I am related in the Kilkenny and Sweeney line.....

Help - Please reply!!!!!!

Hello,
Good news. I have some information for you.

1. Mary Kilkenny's mother was Greenan and came from an area called
Annaghmacullen [always pronuounced in the Irish dialect: Anna Ma Cool Een].
This is the area that my mother came from. My mother is a kilkenny also [no
relation to you]. My mother remembers the house. There are no Greenan's
there now.

2. She, Mary Kilkenny, had a brother called Jimmy who is still alive
today living in Tooma, Cloone, Co. Leitrim, Ireland [postal address]. Tooma
is pronounced with an accent on the 'Too'.

3. There was another brother called Eugene. He was married and living in
Dublin and had three daughters. He moved back to Tooma. His wife died some
years ago aged 33. He returned to Dublin and remarried.

4. There was another brother called John Patrick;

5. There were two sisters, Hanne and ? who married into the Brennan
family. Hanneh never married and was a housekeeper for a priest in Ireland.
I believe she died in Dublin a few years ago. The other sister also died a
few years ago;

6. My mother may know the Sweeney's of Ballinamore but there are several
families.

7. Your Kilkenny family and my Kilkenny family are buried side by side
in two plots in the Catholic cemetery in Cloone. This is because in those
days they buried everybody according to their name. I know the site well.

8. The geography of the area is as follows. I know it very well as I
have been there many times. Co. Leitrim is a two-hour drive from Dublin. It
is the most de-populated county in Ireland due to emigration. Ballinamore
[meaning large town} is one of the largest towns in the county with a few
thousand people living there. It is about eight miles from Cloone. Cloone
village is a very small typical Irish village. Several pubs, a few shops, a
church, a school, etc. Cloone village is the nearest village to Tooma and
Annaghmacullen. The latter two are townlands, made up of land, farms and
houses over ten square miles each. Both townlands are alongside each other
and are virtually depopulated now.