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Personal data WILLIAM JOY 

• He was born in the year 1841 in Co. Kerry, Ireland.Source 1
• Profession: Farmer.
• Resident:
• in the year 1901: Ardraw, Killorglin, Co. Kerry, Ireland.Sources 1, 2
• in the year 1911: Ardraw, Killorglin, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

  Name: Hana M Joy Gender: Female Marital Status: Single Age: 23 Birth Year: abt 1888 Birth Place: Co Kerry
  Residence Date: 2 Apr 1911 House Number: 1 Townland/Street: Ardraw District: Kilgobnet County: Kerry
  Country: Ireland Electoral District: Kilgobnet Literacy: Read and write Language Spoken: Irish and English
  Religion: R Catholic Relationship: Daughter URL:http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kerry/Kilgobnet/Ardraw/289050/ Household Members Age Relationship William Joy 68 Head Elizabeth Joy 62 Wife Tim Joy 35 Son William Joy 27 Son Patrick Joy
  22 Son Hana M Joy 23 Daughter Julia Sugrue 17 Servant

• He died in the year 1919, he was 78 years old.Sources 3, 4
• A child of MAURICE JOY and Juliana (Anna) Doyle
• This information was last updated on May 4, 2021.

Household of WILLIAM JOY

He is married to ELIZABETH (Bessie) MORIARTY.

They got married on June 2, 1872 at Milltown, Co. Kerry, Ireland, he was 31 years old.Source 2

From marriage cert in BMD office Killarney.

Name William Joy Event Type Marriage Event Date 1872
Event Place Killarney, Ireland Registration Quarter and Year 1872
Registration District Killarney Volume Number 10 Page Number 185
Name Bessie Moriarty Event Type Marriage Event Date 1872
Event Place Killarney, Ireland Registration Quarter and Year 1872
Registration District Killarney Volume Number 10 Page Number 185

Child(ren):

1. John Joy  1873-1933
2. TIMOTHY (Tade) JOY  1875-1929 
3. Maurice (Mossie) Joy  1876-1940 
4. Julia Joy  1877-1882
5. Elizabeth Joy  1878-???? 
6. Eugene William Joy  1884-1962 
7. William Joy  1886-????
8. Ellen Joy  1888-???? 
9. Hannah M. Joy  1890-1942 
10. Mary Joy  ± 1890-????
11. Patrick Joy  1892-1975 

Notes about WILLIAM JOY

Ardraw is described on the 1901 census as a dwelling with stone walls and a slate roof. It had 7-9 rooms and 8 windows to the front of the building. It had the rating of a 1st class home. The house was bought by the Joy family from the Collingwood family. (date unknown)
From the book 'Houses of Kerry' by Valerie Bary ISBN 0 946538 08 5 published by the Ballinakella Press. On the history of ARDRAW House Knockane Killorglin.
Associated Families :- Grey, Collingwood, McGillycuddy, Joy.
Location:- Map 57 (1846 & 1895) Located on a side road from the Killorglin - Beaufort road, leading down to the river Laune and from a private road that is c. 1Km. from the Killorglin road. Distance from Killorglin c. 6 Km.
Present condition:- House uninhabited and in ruin. Demesne. Mostly farmland. Some old trees.
Features: A single story house, Ardraw was built as an "L" with the farmyard buildings behind making a courtyard. There is a three-bay front with plain door and windows, originally with georgian panes. It has a hipped roof slated and with large chimneys.
History: Little is known of the history of Ardraw. O'Donovan names it on his map, but makes no further mention. It appears to be a very early house from its appearance - solid and with windows set well in from the corners. The Grey family are named as in residence on the townland, but one cannot say whether they began the house.. Their name is almost unknown in this part of Kerry although they are mentioned in Liscahane and Tralee during the wars of the 1640s. The Collingwoods are also unknown, but they built Collingwood House which is close by and appears very early in the eighteenth centuary, so that the same family may have built Ardraw as well. The house is believed, locally, to be haunted.

Situated on the farmland at the highest point there is the Earthen Fort at Ardrath (pronounced Ardraw).
This fort, situated about a mile to the right of the main road going from Killarney to Killorglin, is remarkable as containing a souterrain, excavated in the clay, like a tunnel, and not lined with stone. It is noticed by Mr. John Cooke, M.A., M.R.I.A., in a paper read by him before the Royal Irish Academy (P.R.I.A., VOL.XXVI. (C.), P. 3). The space within the enclosure is about 80 feet in diameter; the rampart, 20 feet wide, is surrounded by a trench, about 30 feet wide and 15 feet deep. The souterrain is now open from the surface, and the chamber is exposed, showing two passages branching off from it. At the time of our visit with Dr. Digby, the son of the owner pointed out the indication of where a shaft had been formed, from the surfaced to the roof of the chamber below.
And filled in again, through which the material excavated to form the chamber had been raised.
Souterrains formed by tunnelling are not of frequent occurrence. They are generally excavated open to the surface, and, when the stone side walls, passages, and roofs have been built, are covered over with earth. This is the first recorded instance of the discovery of a vertical shaft through which the excavated material had been raised to the surface.
It is only in very firm earth; hard and compact, such as exists here, that this mode of construction could be carried out.

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