Burke's East Galway
The culture, history and genealogy of the families of east Galway
If you’re reading this and living in the United States and if you knew John B. Madden, born in Richmond County in the State of New York in 1910, who served as a sergeant in the United States army in World War II and who died in Indian River County in Florida in 1990, then […]
© Donal G. Burke 2015 The Kelly family established as a landholding family in the townland of Kellysgrove, south of the town of Ballinasloe in east Galway from the mid seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century were of a different origin to the O Kellys of Uí Maine and are more correctly Kealys or Keallys. […]
© Donal G. Burke 2015 Edward MacLysaght, writing in the mid-twentieth century in his ‘Irish Families, Their Names, Arms and Origins,’ stated that ‘the true sept of O Horan originated in County Galway whence they spread to County Mayo and are now fairly numerous in those Connacht counties.’ The arms of ‘O Horan of County […]