County Sligo

My grandmother came from Sligo and came to the United States when she was ayoung girl. Her sister came along with her and her mother. Her sister died on the ship on the way over. I went to Ireland about 15yrs. ago. According to my aunt, who visited Sligo approximately 20 yrs. We still have residents in Sligo who own a dairy farm which was left to them by family. When I went to sligo, I did not want to look for them because I did not think I was looking for anything. I would have loved to meet them. I'm 74 yrs old not but I still have hope that one day I'll go back to meet them. By the way the family was named Tracy.

My wife's McGowan ancestry (her paternal grandmother) came over from near to Ballyconnell on the peninsula just west of Drumcliff, back in 1896. She visited cousins still living there back in 1966, and my son and I retraced her steps in April of 2006, 40 years later. The countryside there surrounding Dunleavy's Market, Ellen's Pub, and the Carrigans Cemetery is wonderful.