Posted By:	Edward O'Connor, Jr.
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	Subject:	Re: Crean families, Dingle Peninsula
	Post Date:	January 25, 2006 at 04:13:20
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/crean/messages/182.html
	Forum:	Crean Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/crean/

Hello Susan, Thanks for writing......you sound like a former "Holyoker" yourself based upon the references to ward 4 and "Dead Man's curve. I grew up in Churchill.... I have a Patrick Crean in my line but he was born in 1868 and would thus be much older than your Patrick Crean. To date, I'm not sure how many of the Crean siblings actually emigrated..I know of at least two but there were five other siblings so far as I know. Almost all of the other surnames you mentioned except for "Madden" are very familiar to me although that's not surprising considering Holyoke's Irish heritage. Even the Peck name is familiar.... Have you checked out the rootsweb Kerry site? If not, check out the following: www.rootsweb.com/~irlker The site has a lot of information regarding Castlegregory. Ed O'Connor