If you have any information to share such as old photos, 'new' relatives, or biographies, etc., or would like further details, please contact the author of this web site, Chris Golden, through the message board or at: Chris@GoldenLangan.com
This web site is maintained at the expense of the author, however, Google Ads have recently been added to help towards some of the expenses. Each time a sponsor's advert is clicked on, a few pence are earned towards the cost of running this website.
Introduction
This site is focused on family history in Ballycastle and surrounding parishes in the north-east part of County Mayo, Ireland (not to be confused with Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland). This site is dedicated to the memories of the author's late father, Thomas Golden, and late Uncle Tom Langan, the Gaelic footballer.
All of the author's known ancestors are from the Ballycastle area and include the Bourke, Collins, Connor, Deane, Early, Forde, Golden, Healy, Langan, Lavelle, McDonnell, Purcell, Sweeney, and Tomas families.
A large part of the information included in the family trees has been kindly provided by various cousins, including some hand-written charts handed down from their parents. However, details of living people have been omitted from this web site for reasons of privacy, and to avoid the unfortunate potential for identity theft.
Some data has come from various genealogical reference sources that are listed on the Resources page, and from scrutinising headstones in the graveyards around Ballycastle. There are over 2,000 names in my family tree as of June 2011 which appears in a more complete and searchable form on the Genes Reunited web site.
This web-site will continue to be updated as more information becomes available.
Copyright notice: You are welcome to download any information or images from this website for personal use. Private individuals and non-profit organizations are welcome to re-publish any images and information from this website provided due acknowledgement to the author is given where appropriate; e.g. "Reproduced courtesy of C. M. Golden, www.GoldenLangan.com". Commercial organizations may not publish or reproduce information or images from this website without written permission from the author. Anyone is welcome to link to pages on this website.
While every effort is made to ensure accuracy of the information presented, no liability is accepted for any errors or omissions.
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