We'll spend two nights in Ennis to allow a leisurely visit to our main ancestral locations in East Clare. These are O'Callaghans Mills and Feakle where we'll no doubt stop for refreshments, photos, cemeteries and church finding. Other important places to visit include Mount Shannon and the Holy Island, Scariff, Broadford and the Killaloe Bridge. Oral history says the McGuinness brothers came from County Antrim to work on the construction of the bridge of the River Shannon - between Clare and Tipperary - some time in the 1700s.
Having an idea where the McGuinness farm was likely to be on the R466
The Old Ground Hotel in Ennis in the heart of medieval Ennis, a beautifully restored 18th Century manor house. It has a fine dining restaurant and a laundry (which may be badly needed). Old Ground Hotel, Ennis
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| Probably not going to be my room |
I really loved Ennis when we were there in 2008. Tiny shambolic medieval streets all bursting with 21st Century store advertising.
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| Daniel in Ennis |
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| Fergus River through Ennis |
I stayed in Feakle in the home a distant McGuiness relative in 2008, and had a really good look at the streetscape and watched a game of Hurling on the TV in Peppers Bar. Feakle is renowned for its traditional music scene, but it will be in Ennis were we'll experience this as there will be a music festival in town during our stay.
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| Not my relative's home in Feakle |
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| Nor was this one |
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Pepper's Bar on the Crossroads, Feakle
An 1820 painting of the market place at Ennis - very much as my x4 great-grandparents Daniel McGuiness and Mary Tuohy might have known it:
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