Egans

My great great grandmother was Roseanne Egan. I believe she may have been born in Dublin in 1824 but have some circumstantial evidence that her family were in or from Gallen (Kings County) Offaly. Rose married Thomas McEntyre in Dublin. Thomas’ parents James and Elizabeth Cummins married in 1818 in Banagher (near Gallen Offaly). It […]

Dubliners Glasnevin Cemetery

Unfortunately there were no headstones but at least we found them. The walkie talkies there to mark the spots. James McEntyre and his wife Elizabeth were living in Wood Street Dublin and appear to have been running the homes at 18, 23 and 27 for lodgers. Son Thomas McEntyre who worked at the Griffith’s Valuation […]