Photos by rsmyth : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Hi Kitty,

This must be the church-I can't imagine there being another, and it's close enough to Gortbrack for it to be their local church. You should try to contact Father Sean Noone. He was very helpful and let me go through the local church records. Contact me at rsmyth64@yahoo.com for more contact info if you like. Good luck.

Another view of the orange farmhouse that my grandparents Bernard Smyth and Maggie Meehan lived in from 1924 to 1929.

The orange house on the hill is the farmhouse that my grandparents Bernard Smyth and Margaret Meehan lived in from 1924 to 1929.

I'm not positive of this location, but this is the approximate location: heading north/northwest from Castlebar toward Bangor.

Birthplace of my grandmother, Margaret Meehan, 1900.

Not sure of precise location. I think it is outside of Bangor on R313. I saw this somewhere on the way to Belmullet. This is a sign of the "Great Corrib Gas Controversy".

Faulagh is the village in which my grandmother, Margaret Meehan, grew up from 1900-1922.

This is the Barnatra School, founded in 1895, which my grandmother, Margaret Meehan, and her brothers and sisters attended in the early 20th century.