The earliest ancestors I've found are Patrick & Mary Bourke. Patrick married Mary Clancy form Rosbrien near Limerick City around 1830. They lived on a farm at a place called the Four Gates in the townland of Dullas in the parish of Croom in Co. Limerick. This farm is very close to the Kilmacow farm. They had five children that I know off - John (1833), my great-grandfather, Margaret (c. 1838), Patsy, Bill and another daughter whose name I don't know.
Patrick and Mary are buried in Boherard graveyard in the parish of Dromin-Athlacca. I don't know why they are buried in a different parish to where they lived but Patrick may have originated from there. I visited this graveyard again last year to take some photos.It's a beautiful, peaceful location located down a lane off the main road. This graveyard was used during the famine and, as a result, there are a large number of marker stones in the graveyard. These mark the graves of people whose families were either wiped out in the famine (and so no-one remained to put up a gravestone) or whose families couldn't afford a headstone given the circumstances a the time.
The inscription reads "In memory of Patrick Bourke who died May 1867 and his wife Mary Burke who died April 1868. Erected by their son Patrick and his wife Margaret".
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