Denis O'Connor, Teacher at Ballyquin, lived in Cloghane

This in regards to my great great grandfather, Denis O'Connor(Connor?)...I have his marriage record from St. Vincent's Church in Ballyferriter, Dingle peninsula but unfortunately his father's name isn't listed...only one witness was listed and I believe that it was his father-in-law Patrick Houlihan...the marriage took place in 1862 before the advent of civil registration..my great great grandfather was a teacher or the headmaster at the National School in Ballyquin near Cloghane Castlegregory....family lore has it that Denis died after being gored by a bull on his way home from school....I have his death record as well...no reference to his father there either...he died in July 1881 at the Dingle Hospital/Workhouse....I don't know where he is interred but I'd like to find out. I have contacted the staff at the hospital but unfortunately they don't seem to have records going back that far..the family as I understand it was living in Cloghane which is a few miles east of Ballyquin..

Also, I need to know whether I have looked at all possible sources to find the name of Denis' father? I'd like to go back further at least another generation but I can't seem to do so....I don't know where Denis' family was from originally but I don't think that it was the Dingle peninsula. His wife's Houlihan family was from the area around Ballyferriter but as he was a teacher, I think that Denis was just assigned to that area but did not grow up there or in Cloghane.

Ed O'Connor

Hudson,MA