Ellen Foley Videos : Home to Knockanarroor - Pillowcase Photo

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Home to Knockanarroor - Pillowcase Photo

Dec. 5, 2011 Home to Knockanarroor - Pillowcase Photo Missing photo gives hints to Irish history By Jannet Walsh Murdock, Minnesota I returned home to Knockanarroor, Ireland for the first time, but I have never been there before. In April 2011, I traveled to Ireland, precisely where my Great-Great-Grandmother Ellen Brennan Foley, born May 15, 1820 in Killarney, Ireland, and died in Stillwater, Minnesota, lived in Knockanarroor Townland, pronounced "Knock-on-a-roar" in Irish Gaelic, meaning the hill of corn in English. On a cold January 2011 day, a photograph, along with a hand-written card with hints of Ellen's life, including her husband's name, William Foley, were found tucked away in a pillow of treasures of my late grandmother Mary Jannet "Jennie" Foley Walsh, 1886 to 1985, of Murdock. The unmarked country road my Irish roots were plucked from in the early 1840s, is located just east of the city of Killarney in County Kerry, in western Ireland. A milk lorry driver, a truck driver in the United States, Patrick "Pa" Brosnan of Muckross, in the Killarney area, pumping petro in the near by village of Barraduff agreed to guide me to the hidden location that is plain site. Ellen's parents, James Brennan and Mary Walsh, my great-great-great grandparents, from my grandmother's family, called the townland home, as they worked the rented land consisting of what is referred to by residents as a "poorish land" of wetlands, surrounded by bogs. The peat or turf, decayed vegetation ...

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