Mulvihill and Nolan, Listowel Parish

Sheri:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

We do not have a parish liaison in Listowel parish. Baptismal records for the parish start in 1802 but marriage records start later in 1837. Here is a link to the parish register  http://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0678  However, use www.irishgenealogy.ie and search the church records for Nolan records in Listowel parish.

I checked the 1901 and 1911 censuses for Gortdromasillahy and there was one Nolan family and also a Mulvihill family. Links to the Nolan family are below.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kerry/Newtownsandes/Go…

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kerry/Newtownsandes/Go…

I looked at the online Irish phone book  https://www.eirphonebook.ie/  and there were a good number of Nolan records in Co. Kerry and in the Listowel area but none in Gortdromasillahy.  

Have you considered autosomal DNA testing?

Let me know if you have any questions.

Roger McDonnell

Thank you so much for your quick reply. 

Most all of the information that I have was obtained from www.irishgenealogy.ie with additional assistance from the Kerry Writers Center. 

The Nolans in the censuses provided do not match with the information that I currently have but may provide useful for further investigation. 

I have done the DNA testing and had my brother do it as well but no matches have been found so far for the Nolan side. My brother's DNA has been submitted to the Nolan Family DNA Project through WorldFamilies.net without a match to a particular clan.

I appreciate the link to the phone book. I will attempt communication to see if they have genealogical data that might match.

I will be traveling to Ireland in October and plan to visit the areas that my ancestors lived.

I appreciate you assistance tremendously!

Go raibh maith agat!

Sheri Nolan Wells

Hi Sheri,  I wish you much success in your Nolan search.  Perhaps we are connnected but I have nothing concrete to support this thought.  I have hit a brick wall trying to find the original Irish County for my Nolans but so far I have found.... My GGrandfather William No(w)lan was born in 1862 in the townland of Drombeg, several kilometers north of Listowel.  His parents were William Nolan and Mary Walsh. (Mary having both parents as Walsh and coming from the Tullabeg area of Nth Kerry)  This William was born in India c. 1830 to a Dennis Nolan and Jenny Dowd.  I can find no documents for these two but they are listed in the book "Northern NY - A Genealogical and family history of northern New York: a record of the achievements of her people,"  This has half a page about their son Father Dennis Nolan who was a priest for many years in Northern NY. In the Griffiths valuation in 1855 there was a Maurice Nolan residing in Drombeg.  In 1853  William and Mary Walsh had married and their first son born in 1854 at Tullabeg, they named Maurice with Maurice Nolan being his sponsor.  By 1856 their next son Dennis was born at Drombeg.  I can find no death record for Maurice so maybe he allowed them to come and live with him in Drombeg, where they stayed til they both died in the early 1900's.  In a branch of Mary Walsh's  family (a cousin) there is a Thomas Walsh (born c. 1920's) and Catherine Mulvihil marriage. Some of their children went to America, Ottawa, Ill for sure.   When we visited this area 2 years ago a local man who knew of my Nolan family told me that "word was that the Nolans came from Co.Cork".  That was a suprise and i have not been able to go further back.  But this same man told me of a family living in the area who where descended from my William and Mary.and this turned out to be true.  I hope that you may also have a similar success.  We found this local man by stopping and asking folk for directions to the townland of Drombeg and explaining  I was searching for my ancestral home.  People were so friendly and happy to help.   Have you tried putting your query on the Co.Kerry rootsweb mailing list?  Best Wishes Chris in NZ

Thank you so much for your response. We are most likely distantly related from the Nolans from the Listowel Parish, County Kerry. I hope to be so fortunate as to come across some living relatives during my visit this coming October. How wonderful for you!

Hi Sheri, I've just been going thru some photos taken on our visit to Co.Kerry where we visited the old Galey cemetary looking for my Nolan family and came across this photo I will upload here.  I took it because I had heard from someone years ago that we had a Mulvihill connection thru one of my Walsh lines.  Cheers Chris in NZ 

Sheri - Dont know if this post is still going but the Nolan family referred to in the 1901 and 1911 census above are related to me. If i can be of any assistance - let me know.