Ardgroom (village + RC Chapel)
Part of: Castletownbere, County Cork / Beara Peninsula / West Cork / County Cork / Ireland
Also: Ardgroom, Ardgroom village
Village on the Beara peninsula; has its own Roman Catholic Chapel where Patrick Murphy and Ellen Lyne were married 13 Feb 1881 (per civil marriage cert). The wider Ardgroom area includes the surrounding farming townlands of Ellen Lyne's family (her father Myles Lyne was "of Ardgroom, Farmer").
Sources at this place (16)
- undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara" (volume number not specified on this excerpt; page numbered "—29—")Annals of Beara p.29 (volume TBD): PATRICK MURPHY & ELLEN LYNE entry — duplicate framing of the Vol II p.271 content but with the addition 'had a son James who went to Butte, Montana, married and had a son a priest'
A second Annals of Beara entry covering the same Patrick Murphy + Ellen Lyne household, with text very close to (but not identical to) the Vol II p.271 entry. P…
- undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.270: 11-children family + Jer Harrington & Katie Murphy + PADDY (TAILOR) O'SULLIVAN & KATE MURPHY (Ardgroom Village)
Three-family page. The load-bearing third entry confirms the **Paddy (Tailor) O'Sullivan + Kate Murphy** household at Ardgroom Village — the family central to t…
- undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.271: PATRICK MURPHY & ELLEN LYNE (ARDGROOM VILLAGE) entry — Pat as son of James Murphy + Mary O'Leary of Eyeries Village (cliamhain isteach)
**THE LOAD-BEARING ANNALS ENTRY FOR OUR PATRICK MURPHY.** Verbatim text: > "PATRICK MURPHY & ELLEN LYNE (ARDGROOM VILLAGE). The > position of this house (later…
- undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II pp. 53-55: the O'Sullivan (Keagh, 'Seer') families of Droumbeg and Carrigaphrechane, Ardgroom Inward, with Emma Verling's notes 'START HERE LUKE' and 'Connection LUKE'
Three consecutive pages on the O'Sullivan (Keagh) family, known as "Seer", who came from Castlekilty to Carrigaphrechane "around the year 1800" (Sean Seer and P…
- 1855-02-20 — Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots Ireland (Church Marriage Record)Margaret Shea's FIRST marriage — to John Sullivan, 20 Feb 1855, Eyeries
Roman Catholic church marriage record from Eyeries parish. - Date: 20 Feb 1855 - Husband: **John Sullivan** of **Agroom** (= Ardgroom), Roman Catholic; father s…
- 1865-06-09 — Marriage Returns, Superintendent Registrar's District of CastletownMarriage of Myles Lyne (widower) and Margaret Shea alias Sullivan (widow) of Ardgroom, 9 June 1865
Entry 10 of four 1865 marriages registered together on this page. **Myles Lyne** (Full age, **Widower**, Farmer, of [Letterfinneen?], father **Jeremiah Lyne**, …
- 1872-05-10 — Ireland Civil Registry of Deaths — District of Kilcatherine, Union of Castletown, Co. CorkMyles Lyne (Sr.) civil death cert — d. 10 May 1872 Ardgroom, age 81, farmer (= 1839 Kenmare registry-notice Myles?)
Irish Civil Registry of Deaths certified true copy of Entry No. 400 from the 1872 Kilcatherine District Register, recording the death of **Myles Lyne**. **DEAT…
- 1883-08-02 — Republic of Ireland Civil Registration — Birth RegisterJJM Sr's civil birth cert — born 2 Aug 1883 Ardgroom; father Patrick Murphy SHOEMAKER; mother Ellen Murphy formerly Lyne
Republic of Ireland Civil Registration Birth Certificate (reproduction issued 8 November 2013 by Helen Foley, Authorised Officer) transcribing the original 1883…
- 1890-04-28 — Irish Examiner, p.4THE FISHING INDUSTRY IN BEREHAVEN.
A prosperous-season report on the **Berehaven spring fishery**: over 200 fishing smacks (from Arklow, Dublin, France, Isle of Man) and ~50 yawls working the gro…
- 1893-07-22 — The Skibbereen Eagle, p.2SAD FATALITY NEAR CASTLETOWN-BERE.
Skibbereen Eagle death-and-inquest brief about a fatal cart accident on the road between Castletownbere and Eyeries on the evening of Wednesday 19 July 1893. *…
- 1901-03-31 — Census of Ireland 19011901 Ireland Census — Michael Murphy household (Ardgroom): JJM godfather candidate
Census of Ireland Form A for the night of Sunday 31 March 1901. Single Murphy household in Ardgroom, headed by Michael Murphy: 1. Michael Murphy, Head of Fam…
- 1967 — Murphy family papersMurphy Family Tree, 1967: 'Patrick Murphy, Balykrewan, County Cork, Ireland'; Ellen Lyne (1859-1935)
A hand-lettered chart of the ancestors of the children of James J. Murphy Jr. and Marie A. Schueller, made in 1967, the year of Terese Murphy's letter of 9 Apri…
- 1967-04-09 — Murphy family papersTerese Murphy to Dan, 9 April 1967: 'Dad was born in Balykrewan ... about the year 1854'; her mother's two fathers
Patrick and Ellen's daughter Terese answers family-history questions from "young Dan": Dan Murphy (born 1954), then twelve or thirteen, who had a school family-…
- 1971-09-20 — Murphy family papersTerese Murphy to Imelda, 20 Sept 1971: her father's sister married 'Tailor Sullivan'; his father 'left for America some months before he was born'
Terese writes to her niece Imelda, who is about to fly to Ireland, and tells her what she learned on her own trip of 1938. On her brother James: he spent his e…
- ~2026-05 — Family research deck — Luke Murphy (user) self-prepared PowerPointLuke Murphy's Murphy Family Research deck — Ancestry-tree summary cards for great-great-grandparents back through 3rd-great-grandparent generation
The user's own self-prepared family-research PowerPoint containing Ancestry.com tree screenshots (summary card per ancestor) for the documented direct family ba…
- 2026-09-04 — Email correspondence between Luke Murphy and the Eyeries parish office, Diocese of Kerry, 14 Aug to 4 Sept 2026Eyeries parish office, 4 Sept 2026: the 1881 parish marriage entry names the fathers only, 'James Harrington and Myles Lyne'
A report, by email from the parish secretary, of what the Eyeries parish marriage register holds for Patrick Murphy and Ellen Lyne (married February 1881). She …