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Agnes Cashel

Agnes Cashel. From 1905 photo.
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Agnes Cashel [poss. descendant of Edward III],
born 21st Dec 1870, Mallow, Co.Cork,
"My mother had a natural dignity. She could easily have belonged to a simpler and older age than ours" [Pat Lavelle],
educ Miss Moylan's school, think Limerick, as were her sisters [Lavelle, 1961],
the Cashel family lived in Limerick at least 1882-91, they met the O'Maras at this time,
taught English at convent in central France, winter 1891-2,

she met James when she came to a dance in the O'Mara's house, Hartstonge House, Limerick, summer 1891 (James age 18, Agnes age 20) [Lavelle, 1961],
James, just finished school, immediately asked his father to take him on in the bacon factory,
his mother was opposed to this, and argued that he should go to college,
it was his grandfather who persuaded them to let him start work,
Agnes got on well with James' grandfather: "She was very fond of him and knew he liked her" [Pat Lavelle],
he very much approved of Agnes, he would pass the two after mass and "he would smile and nod at them in his friendliest way",

James proposed to Agnes, prob. summer 1892, at ruined Dunlica Castle, S of Kilkee, on cliffs of Co.Clare, hundreds of feet above the Atlantic,
in the old days, the whole extended O'Mara family would gather at Kilkee, summer after summer,
poss. spelt "Dunlicky", and [AA Touring Guide to Ireland, 1976] has "Doonlickas",
the family considered it "Dunlica" since that is how they spelt it when they named their house in London after it,
they pronounced it "Dun-lick-a", NOT "Dun-leek-a",
almost nothing is left of the castle ruin today,
they were allowed marry when James was 21, "Mother always felt that this had been brought about largely by Great-Grandfather's kindly interest in their romance" [Pat Lavelle],

mar 23rd Apr 1895 [him age 21, her age 24], St.Saviour's (Dominican church), Dominick St (nr King's Inns), Dublin [GROI]
to James O'Mara and had issue.