Edmund Spillane of Dromdiralough

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Genealogy Support 

Edmund was born to Thomas Spillane and Catherine Mc Sweeney ( of Teernaboul or Island Teernaboul ) and christened in Killarney in 1810.  I think that Thomas' father may have been Daniel Spillane of Killarney and Catherine's father Ned McSweeny of Teernaboul.  Catherine and Thomas married in Killarney before 1808 and their other children were:  Daniel 1808, Edmund 1810, Mary 1812, Eugene 1814, Catherine 1816, Thomas 1818, Honora 1820, Catherine 1821, Ellen 1823, Margaret 1825, Nora 1826.  The last three children were born in Island Teernaboul and then Lissivigeen, and Thomas appears in the Tithe Lists in 1833 in Lissivigeen.  All the older children were born in Killarney.

Edmund married Julia Sullivan of Minish in Killarney in 1834.  Julia's parents were Thomas Sullivan and Gobinet Counihan who had married in Killarney in 1805 when he was living in Clogherreen. Julia was born in Minish in 1813.  They had: Thomas 1835, Catherine 1837, Mary 1839, Daniel 1841, Ellen 1845, Edmund 1846, Julia 1848, Patrick, 1851, Michael 1852, Jeremiah 1853, Eugene 1854, Dominic 1857, there might have been a Timothy and a Johanna also.  At first they were in Lissivigeen but then moved to Dromdiralough from about 1840 onwards.  Edmund appears in the Griffith's Valuation in Dromdiralough, with a neighbour, John Coonihan ( sic ) who may have been related to Julia's mother.  The four eldest children left Ireland for Australia and England, and the farm passed to Edmund ( 1846 ) whose family still has it today.  Other children also went to Australia and the US or South Africa, apart from a couple of the girls who married and stayed in Ireland.

Daniel Spillane went to London, he was my great grandfather.