Second day in Dublin I went to the National Library. Their genealogy office is incrediably helpful. I now have the map of what my Great Great Great Grandfather Bartholomew Killian rented from Michael Williams. He rented two lots- 5A and 5B hopefully you can see it on the map I took a picture of. Its right near a main road that has since been expanded. It looks like some of the natural markers are still there according to google earth. According to the tax forms he rented a House, offices, and land. Don't know if anything is still out there but I hope to go. (You can click on the map to enlarge it, 5A & B are near the top center)
Not many people around here have heard of Ballynadrumny. The place never developed. There was once a church near by but I can't find an address for it, so it may not be there anymore. South of Ballynadrumny is Broadford. The name of the Catholic Parish was Balyna. The church records are on microfilm. I need to go back to the libary to look at them- they *may* have a marriage certificate for Bartle and Catherine- if so, it would have their parent's names on them. From what the genealogy ladies in the library said, its very likely they are buried in the church yard in Ballynadrumny. There is some complication with that because catholics were not allowed to have their own burial ground some time in the 18th century.... which makes them a bit more difficult to find. She also said many of the head stones don't have names or dates on them during that period.
Anyway, after that we went to the National Museum. There were Lunalias which are hammered gold in the shape of a crescent moon worn as a necklace. Very beautiful. We also saw the bog bodies. They are really well perserved. You can see facial hair on the men. One of the bodies was just an upper torso without a head- but his chest and arms were so well perserved that you could almost imagine him moving. He didn't seem hundreds of years removed from us- it was all very strange. There was much more the the muesum but I didn't have enough time to walk it all, so I'll have to go back.
Then we went to the Guiness Storehouse. It was basically an exhibit as to how the beer is made. It was interesting. We went up to the top of the Gallaxy Bar and could see all of Dublin.
Then we went on a Musical Pub Crawl. Unfortunately downloading the video clips to my computer didn't work out right, so I lost a good bit of them. However some survived, and here they are:
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