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McArdle Clan
Gathering – August 2013
We would refer to the following website
called www.thegatheringireland.com which is an Irish Government initiative
to try to encourage as many people who have emigrated from Ireland over the last
200 years to make contact with and possibly to visit Ireland in the year 2013.
Next year 2013 besides being The
Gathering also coincides with the anniversary of the building of the local
Church at Shelagh, Hackballscross, Dundalk, Ireland named The Sacred Heart.
This building was built after the reform of the penal laws and this Church has
been highly involved in the McArdle Clan over the many years by baptisims,
weddings and weekly masses.
The
intention is to try and organise a gathering of all descendants of the McArdle
Family. This is not just to include people named McArdle but people who have
through marriage like the Morgans, the Rushes, the Callan’s, the O’Reilly’s etc
and to bring them all together back to the locality where their ancestors came
from in a celebration of a gathering to be held on the weekend of August
9-11th 2013.
A
possible form for this could be as follows:
Through www.thegatheringireland.com website
there is a specified area for the McArdle Clan to congregate and communicate.
This website will contain information such as accommodation in the local area,
local events around the town etc. In the next number of weeks and months the
intention is to populate this website with as much local information of
accommodation, events, possible times and possible events specific to the
gathering.
The
gathering has been registered as a dual event i.e. the gathering of the McArdle
Clan which is a family event and also as a genealogy research event. Therefore
for anybody attending the intention would be to bring them on a tour of their
genealogy ancestors residence and birthplaces together with their Baptismal
Church and possibly associated graveyards in Crossmaglen, Shelagh, and in
particular Creggan which has the oldest known grave in the McArdle Clan i.e.
from 1740. This gathering of the Clan also will involve all the descendants of
the McArdle’s who are still living on the island of Ireland and in particular in
the vicinity of the home place i.e. Courtbane.
In
the days prior to and after the main event facilities will be looked to be laid
on if possible for going to the local areas associated with the McArdle Clan in
the immediate area but in a more general tour of areas such as Newgrange, Battle
of the Boyne, Monasterboice, Mellifont Abbey, Carlingford and other associated
local areas of history could also be included.
Fergus
McArdle
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