Last Day on the Road and Hope For a Final Link

It's our last day in Ireland. It is also September 22nd, the day our dad Bernard John Ingoldsby died in 1978.  

We leave our fantastic B & B, and head off on the road.  We stop at an access point to the ocean, and say goodbye to Galway Bay.

We head out on the road and stop at another little gem called Clonmacnoise.  The ruins of a monastic site dating from the 6th century and founded by St. Ciaran. 

We cross the river Shannon, where we find out you can rent boats and travel this area by river. (next trip!)

Back out on the road, we make for  the town of Kilbeggan.  We are happy to report that this town has brought back an old distillery making Kilbeggan Whiskey We took a tour of the old distillery and saw the new pot stills as well.  Vince, being of the old barrel maker trade (circa 1666) was checking out the barrel room.  

As we were approaching Dublin, Colleen saw a sign for Trim.  Trim is the city (we think) that our ancestor Bryan Bernard Ingoldsby originated from.  We have not been able to find any records of births or death records of his family.  We take a detour for the town and run across Trim Castle.  Braveheart was filmed here!

The parish church is St Patricks, and does not have a cemetery. We ask a passerby if they know of an old cemetery, and she directs us to Newtown, just outside of Trim. An old cemetery and church ruin is there. There are graves dating pre-1804 (the birth year of our 3rd great grandfather)

Maureen and Colleen in the church ruin in Newtown Cemetery.

Well, we didn't really find anything here in Ireland about our ancestors.  We obtained some new genealogical tips and made some new Ingoldsby friends.  We will return though.  It is a wonderful place and a place we are happy to say we have come from!  

cuimhnigh i gconai

always remember