Kane Family research - hospital/herbertstown area

Hi there,

Roman Catholic church records are available for Hospital dating from 1810. These can be accessed from the National Library of Ireland, Pos. 2507, or the Limerick Archives. Perhaps you should write to the parish priest for the area and see if they can check their records for information about Patrick Kane.

You could also try checking the land records called the Tithe Applotment Books (1823-38) and the later Griffith's Valuation (1848-64). Griffith's is freely available here: www.askaboutireland.com

Hopefully, someone in the local community will be able to shed some more light for you.

Please make sure you link anyone else in your family who is interested in their Irish heritage to our site - and indeed anyone else you know of Irish heritage.

Kind regards,

Sinead Cooney

Genealogist (Ireland XO)

I have no memory of a Kane family living in Herbertstown. I do recall a Keane family living there and as I no longer reside in my home parish I asked some people to give me some information and I got the following from Mary Sheahan:

Paddy Keane was reared in Ballinaschoola in the house which was later Mickey Dea's, as we called him. He married Julia Higgins (sister to Bill, Lar, Mollie and another brother whose name I dont have ) They lived in whats now Paddy Mc Kenna's house. They had two daughters, Mary and Josie. They latter died shortly before she was to wed. Mary married a man called Hugo Flynn from Lough Gur. They had one daughter Julie, now as far as I know, both her parents died while she was young and she went to live in Patrickswell with her Aunt Mollie. To my knowledge, these Keanes are no relation to Mary Keane that lived in the double cottage in Cahercorney. Hope this is some help.

As you will guess Paddy Keane was probably born at the end of the 19th century or at the beginning of the 20th century. I can get you relevant addresses if required and I also know two Carroll families in Hospital.

Martin Phillips

Martin

First of all thank you very much for taking the time to reply and follow up onm my inquiry.

i tried to send a reply earlier with an attachment but it failed. Or so I think anyway.

I wanted to send a copy of a letter I came across from a Mary Higgins in Hospital from March 4 1895 to Bridget Carroll Kane wife of Patrick Kane. In the letter she refers to Patrick as her cousin and wishes to be remebered to Michael and Mary (Patrick's brother and sister). She also asks about Michael Carroll (Bridget's brother) by full name which implies to me a difference in tone and familarity than when referring to the Kane family members.

So another possibilty or link is to follow the Mary Higgins connection from Hospital area to see if it will lead us to Patrick Kane somehow.

If you are comfortable in sharing your personal email address i will send a copy of the letter as an attachment.

I thank you very much for your help!!!

I am interested to see where Bridget Keane and James Mahony/Mahoney lived.

They married in 27 Jan 1839 in the RC parish in Bruff, Co Limerick. witnesses/sponsors were: Charles McDunne and Patrick Keane

In Hospital and Herbertstown RC parish co Limerick, they baptised the following Children:

Patrick 1840, witness/sponsors were Thos Bourke, Mary Keane

Catherine 1841, witness/sponsors were Danl Kirby, Anast McNamara

Terrence 1844, witness/sponsors were John fitzgerald, Cath Mahony

John 1845, witness/sponsors were James Fitzgerald, Cath Keane

Sally 1847, witness/sponsors were James Fitzgerald, Mary Mahoney

John 1849, witness/sponsors were

James 1850, witness/sponsors were James Carroll, Mary Keane

Timothy 1852, witness/sponsors were Mary Keane

Brian 1856, witness/sponsors were James Keane, Anne Twomey

Mary 1859, witness/sponsors were Edward Murphy, Mary Toomey

so very interested in both the Mahony/Mahoney family as well as the Keane family of that era,

thanking you,

Gai