Thanks for the information on John Joe O'Connell

we appreciate the prompt response to my request for information on our cousin.   We were sad to learn that he had died, but after we had no response, we began to suspect it.  

We hope to visit Abbeyfeale this fall and will now try to find out if the cousin in NZ is there or if he sold the farm.  The sentimental value there lies in the ruins of the original primitive stone hut in the pasture that housed our ancestors.  John joe took us to see it the first time we visited.  It was a very spiritual experience.  We recorded the family history with john Joe and Kathleen and found the sad story of the family's leaving Ireland very touching.