The Powers family lived in Bealkelly (Purdon) and attended St. Mary's
Catholic Church Ogonnelloe.
Several other families from the area also attended this church and also settled in the
area around Kaukauna, Wis. including the names
CURTIN, COX, and McKENNA,
On this map, it is located just South of Bealkelly Purdon, and is highlighted in pink
as "R.C. Ch."
The drawing on the left shows the church around 1828, the picture on the right was the
church around 2001.
The County Clare Library lists the following church records that have been microfilmed
and are available for viewing through the Family History Center.
On the left is St. Klemens Church in Osburg around 1741.
On the right, the church
around 2000.
Microfilmed Church records date back to 1798.
The following information is a translation about the St. Klemens Church in Osburg.
History :Die
first mention of a Osburg church took place in the year 1212. 1741 were built a new
church, whereby the tower, by the predecessor church taken over, was integrated into the
church ship 1958 tore one the ramshackle church ship off and the current church beside
the tower built. On 28 November 1958 the first service in the church was celebrated.
1990 were reconditioned the church and completely transformed inside. 1999 received the
church tower a clock.
Church tower : The cleaned round
church tower which is beside the church consists the upper projectile of 1,4 m strong
brick-work of slate break stones and has a diameter of 5,7 m. 1825 was put and with a
flat cone helmet locked. At the north side on 1741 the dated portal of the predecessor
church is. As original function of the church tower a Kirchhofbefestigung or a view
tower is assumed.
Bells : The
bells of the parish church are called St. Klemens (diameter 105 cm / weight 725 kg),
Maria Regina (90/510) and Sancte Huberte (80/340). They were made by the company
Mabillon from Saarburg.
Altar with
altarpiece : The altar with lectern and priest seat is arranged from crystalline
marble, by the sculptor Oliberius. The abstract altarpiece, which developed in the
context of the church new building of 1990, is a factory of the Viennese of artist
Thomas Bredenfeld. The artist formulates the intention of the picture more comparable as
" striving from the heavy, dark blue tones, the colour of the
longing, into the area of the goettlichen light, striving the believing and doubting
soul from the material tightness in the light of the mental and religious release ".
See the altarpiece on the artist’s
website http://www.bredenfeld.com/osburg
Passion pictures :
At the side panels 14 on linen painted kreuzwegstationen in Nazarener manners of Octavie
of Lasalle Louisenthal, 1873 date.
Organ: To 12.10.1997 inaugurated organ
Wemmetsweiler consists of 17 sounding registers on 2 manuals and pedal factory
distributed and was located beforehand in the Saarland municipality. The purchase and
the change by master of building of organs Gerd Meyer from hay heusweiler enabled by
numerous donations and internal messages the association of building of organs and other
groups.
Working-day church: In the southern part
of the church ship space is integrated, which serves heatingcost-saving the services at
working-days.
In the church are almost life-large,
baroque wood figures of the holy Klemens and Hubertus as well as baroque Maria
Himmelskoenigin with Jesusknaben.
All specification without guarantee
Sources:
Cultural
monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, Kreis Trier Saarburg, tape 12,2,
Hrsg. National office for care of monuments, ISBN 3-88462-110-6, 1. Edition 1994
Lothar
room, Osburger Klemenskirche again-arranges, yearbook 1993 set Trier Saarburg
Alfons
Dewald, Osburg the history of his local and Pfarrgemeinde, publisher local municipality
Osburg, 1978
