For a few years in the early fifties when I lived and went to school in Carrick-on-Suir, my father, John Wall, frequently reminded me that I was descended from the Walls of Coolnamuck. At the time, the significance of this information meant very little. I was probably too young and had no real interest in Irish or family history. Many years later, in August,1971, to be precise, my father bought a copy of Hubert Gallwey’s The Wall Family in Ireland 1170-1970 and that book plus the author’s handwritten receipt, signed and dated, for four pounds and ten shillings is still […]
