Tour "Offaly History Bookshop" and an OLD house where the Casey Family lived Photo Page 24-Jun-2026     Next Travel Event     Previous Photo Page     Current Trip Log

Tour the Offaly History Bookshop.

	This is an unusual Bookshop. This Bookshop is here to assist in the tracing of your family history in Laois and Offaly, Ireland.    Peaches came here to learn more about her Irish Family History.  Here she met with the staff and they assisted her to find pieces of her Family History that she did not previusly know.  The staff got right on the job and showed her how to find the information that she was looking for.  They used their expirence and accessed thru several web sites to get her additional information.   When they were done they had shown her more new family history and found two books, that they had in stock, that contained information for her to bring home to study.   Peaches purchased both books, Remembering the Past (A history of the Killoughey Church and Cementery)by Breda Condron" and Rathrobin and the two Irelands. (The photographs of Middleton Biddulph 1900-1920) by Michael Bryne"

The History Bookshop is located on the south side of the Grand Canal

Looking East on the Grand Canal showing the back side of the Offaly History Bookshop
Looking East over the Grand Canal.
Looking west over the Grand Canal.

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Rathrobin House, Middleton Biddulph Home For more information Click Here.
We came to see the Rathrobin House because: Late in he 1916 two members of the James's family Eugene Casey and Jim Casey worked on the Rathrobin House & Farm. We were were able to verify this with information Found in the book: "The Photographs of Middleton Biddulph" by Michael Byrne.
The Rathrobin House was burned by the Republican IRA on 18-April-1923. In May 1917 Middleton Biddulph due to his serious illnemm went to Turbridgge Wells in England.
The inscription on the front of the Rothrobin House was place there in 1898 when rebuilding started: Rathrobin House built by Hickolas Son of John, 3rd sone fo Grancis Biddulph of Biddulph, Staffordire in the year 1694 Restored by his direct descendant Middleton Westenra Biddulph Son of Francis Marsh Middulph in the year of 1898.

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