I met my roommate from last year's USIT
Summer School, Pirjo from Finland and her 17 year old daughter Kaisa and 15 year old neice Miia at Aisling
B & B. We had tea before we headed to a wonderful reception atTrinity
College of Dublin hosted by USIT.
If curious about going to school in Ireland see my website from Summer
School in Ireland 1998.
I was thrilled to visit Trinity again and listen to Sean Mac Reamoinn
speak. Some of the same organizers were there as well as the group from Boston College.
I spent time at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin working on
Kehoe family research. I met with a genealogist and he was very helpful.
However I felt I could have accomplished just as much in an LDS library
at home. You had to leave your bags checked at the desk and sign up for
the reading room. Copies could not be made immediately. They had to be
ordered and would be mailed to you after paying the fees requested. I decided
to search more at home.
A highlight as always is dinner at Pat and Pat's. Gary is such a cutie
too.
Then it was onto the Yola
Farm Heritage Center in Co. Wexford, where Eamon Kehoe is the coordinator.

Arriving early in the morning I was so excited to be in Co. Wexford
where the majority of the Kehoe's in Ireland reside to this day (or so
they say). I arrived to receive a note saying that the parrish priest had
been in earlier in the week and that there was no genealogists on site
to help. I thought I could just look at records and they said...noooooo
only the parrish priests or the genealogists were allowed to look at the
records. Please fill out this form and attach 50 pounds or about
$75.00 for an intial search.
Yola Farmstead Folk Park Tagoat, Rosslare, Co. Wexford.
Contact : Eamon Kehoe Tel : 053 31177 Fax : 053 32612
18th Century themed-village. Admission £1.00-£6.00
Also County Wexford Heritage and Genealogy Centre.
Email:yolafst@iol.ie
While in Co. Wexford I visited Kilmore Quay and of course a visit to
Kehoe's Pub and Maritime
Museum.
Mass on Saturday night was followed with a very accurate weather report
from the father.
Sunshine and wonderful summer weather brought out the children who loved
to get their feet wet.
Kilmore Quay is a beautiful fishing and resort village. It's narrow
streets meander down and around thru a wonderful area that seems to be
untouched by the modern world. Oh it's there but gazing at the boats and
dining on wonderful fresh seafood makes you think that time has stood still
in Kilmore Quay.
A real treat was to meet Elinor Kehoe and Celia and Joseph Kehoe. They
were so gracious and offered tea and I discovered JAFFA cakes. YUM

Then on to meet up with Celestine Rafferty of the Wexford Library.
She is a marval. Thanks to her I came home loaded with Memorial Inscriptions
from Brian
J. Cantwell's Memorial Inscriptions of the Dead. This information is documentation of some 300 graveyards in Co. Wexford and 100 in Co. Wicklow.
This should help so many Kehoe's find more and more clues to family research.
Going to Ireland in the summer has one benefit. Flowers are growing
everywhere, as this lovely windowbox attests.
A break from shopping with the girls, Pirjo and I found a place to have
tea.
The Famous Galway Races were so exciting to be at.
Mary and daughter Rachel with Chloe.
Out for lunch with the "girls". I can't wait to go back!
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