While I was in Ballinsloe, Martin Curley, whom I have gotten to know through the Internet, graciously offered to take me to see Keelogues East, the townland where Thomas Kilcommons, who is a close relative to my great-grandfather Daniel Kilcommons, came from. We asked about any Kilcommonses still living there, and were directed to the house of Michael Kilcommons. As we approached the house, we stopped to ask a farmer who was clipping hedges at the intersection if he knew Michael Kilcommons. It turned out that he was Michael Klcommons. He immediately invited us into his house and introduced us to his wife Marie, who was very interested in the family history. She gave us tea and showed us the information her family had put together about the Kilcommonses. She mentioned that there were supposedly two other brothers, Daniel and Thomas, who had gone to America and were not heard from again. The "missing" Thomas was the Thomas I had identified in the Pennsylvania records. In the meantime, Michael had called his sister Bernadette to come over. The two of them took us to the old Kilcommons house and to the cemetery.
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| Michael and Marie Kilcommons |
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Looking at some family records
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| Michael and Bernadette Kilcommons |
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| In front of the Burke castle |
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| In front of the Owen Kilcommons house |
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