This web site will continue to be updated as more information becomes available. 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,
at: Chris@GoldenLangan.com
Last updated 6 May 2009
Introduction
This site is focused on family history in and around the Roman Catholic parish of Ballycastle in County Mayo, Ireland, and is dedicated to the memory of the author's late father, Thomas Golden.
All of the author's 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.
The purpose of this web site is to share the author's family history collection with any relatives (known or unknown) and anyone who has ancestors from Ballycastle. If you discover a possible connection with your family, the author would be pleased to hear from you. To protect personal privacy, details of living relatives have been omitted from this web site, but the author is happy to exchange more details with relatives who are known to her.
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.
A large part of the information has been kindly provided by various cousins, including some hand-written charts handed down from their parents. Some has come from various genealogical reference sources that are listed on the Resources page, and from scrutinising headstones in the graveyards in Ballycastle and Doonfeeny. There are over 1,000 names in my family tree as of July 2008 which appears in a more complete and searchable form on the Genes Reunited web site.
