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The first attempt at a government census in Ireland took place beginning in 1813. The Grand Juries of each county were responsible and the enumerators were primarily the Civil Parish constables and officers and were obviously predominantly Protestant.

A militia list from1806, only 8 years after the rising of 1798 contains only a few Kavanagh names. However, there may be significant reasons for this paucity as outlined below.

Mary Cavanagh, you are my grgrgr-grandmother. Did you know I first found you recorded in the 1841 census living at Stuart Street, Scholes in Lancashire .

Between late 1840 and early 1842 Bernard Cavanagh rose from obscurity to become a major celebrity in Ireland and at one point began to rival Daniel O’Connell, The Great Emancipator, in popularity and newsworthiness.

The account of the Irish Celts continues to the time of Diarmuid MacMurrough.

The 20th century's master of hammered lead.

Early Gaelic Society-Social Aspects, Peoples and Politics.

The story of the Irish race is inextricably intertwined with the arrival of the Celts in Ireland. But who were the Celts ?

Brighid an important Leinster saint, and Ireland’s most famed woman saint, who died about 524 AD...

Cathal reviews a book by Raúl Ortigüela of the polo playing Cavanagh dynasty of Argentina.

Peter Kavanagh & Annie Ingram

The winning entry from our recent competition for Clann members.

Robert, of NSW, Australia was awarded the GC in 1930.