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Roger Kiely

Death Date : 9 Apr 1967

Honora Buckley

Death Date : Not Available


 

Cullen
Cork
Ireland

 

Roger Kiely was a son of John Kiely and Elizabeth O'Keeffe.
Honora Buckley was a daughter of Cornelius Buckley and Mary Coakley.

Roger Kiely, of Cullen, a national teacher and Honora Buckley, of Rathduane, a national teacher married in Millstreet on 19 Sep 1922.  The Witnesses were Benjamin Riordan and Cathleen Buckley.

Extract from Marriage Register

 

It is interesting to read from  http://www.millstreet.ie/blog/2017/11/19/roger-kiely-the-men-of-the-south   and below is an excerpt:

Roger’s father John Kiely was a native of Feenagh, Co. Limerick, and taught in Cullen School. He married a local girl, Elizabeth O’ Keeffe in 1884 and they lived in Mullaghroe. Roger was born on June 4th 1896 at Molloghroe, one of eleven children. He married another teacher, Hanoria Buckley of Rathduane in 1922. Roger later became a teacher and was a principal of the Boys School in Cullen from 1938 to 1961 (his wife was the girls principal from 1938-1960). He had a great interest in the Irish Language and in Irish music and formed a school band. He was a member of Sean Moylan’s famous Flying Column. He founded a fife and drum band in Cullen. He also edited and got the poems of Dónal Ó Conchúr published. He passes away on April 9th 1967 at Lislehane, Cullen.

Cullen National School

 
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