Catherine Burke

Catherine Burke, Shandrum.

according to John Fitzgibbon (d1979), his "grandmother was Burke of Shandrum, and his great grandmother was Margaret Burke of Ballyhoura" Both these burke families were related.

Margaret Burke (wife of the Maurice in Shandrum cem) & Ellen Burke (on Nuala snr's side) were sisters. and Canon Burke was their grandnephew.

according to Nuala Fitzgibbon, Fr. Gerald Fitzgibbon sj, said that Catherine Fitzgibbon (Burke)’s brother rode back from Doneraile to Derrynane in Kerry for Daniel O'Connell during the Doneraile Conspiracy