1. Joseph NOLAN was born abt 1830s in probably Ballylongford, Co. Kerry. He died in probably Lenamore, Ballylongford, Co. Kerry.

Joseph was a farmer and lived in Lenamore (also spelled Leanamore), Ballylongford, Co. Kerry. While Griffiths Valuation (1848 to 1864) has no Nolans listed as occupying land in Lenamore, indicating that Joseph may have been born elsewhere, a Mary Nolan of Lenamore married a Thomas Shanahan in Ballylongford in 1836. Could Mary have been a sister of Joseph's?

By the time of the birth of his daughter Elizabeth (January 1862), Joseph was living in Lenamore.

The only Nolans listed by Griffiths for Aghavallan (equivalent to today's parish of Ballylongford) were the following:
Cornelius (Aghanagran Lower)
Patrick (Ballymacasy)
Timothy (Killelton)
Perhaps one of the above was Joseph's father.

The 1901 and 1911 censuses were checked for Nolan households in Lenamore but none were found. Perhaps the Nolan name had died out in the townland by then (it's possible Joseph and his wife, Catherine, had no sons). There was only one Nolan household in Ballylongford listed in the 1901 census (none in the 1911 census), that of Tom Nolan in the townland of Tullahennell. Could Tom have been related to Joseph?

The Nolan surname is very common throughout Ireland, especially in the south-east. It's strongly liked to the Carlow area where it's an anglicised form of O Nualláin. The prevalence of the name in Mayo and Galway is explained by the migration of a branch of the Carlow family there in the sixteenth century. There was also a separate Ó hUallacháin family from west Cork, whose name was anglicised as Nolan. Could Joseph have been a descendant of these west Cork Nolans?

Joseph married Catherine HEALY on 1 Feb 1860 in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry. Catherine was born abt 1830s in possibly Ballylongford, Co. Kerry. She died in probably Lenamore, Ballylongford, Co. Kerry.

Unfortunately we know little about the Healy family. If Catherine was from Ballylongford, like her husband, she may have been connected to one or more of three households in Lislaughtin (Ballylongford) for whom 1911 census records were located. Details of each household, all of which were located in the townland of Ballyline West, are as follows:

Husband and wife Timothy (cannot read) and Mary (can read only) Healy, both aged 50, married 22 years, no children. Listed with them are two relatives (exact relationship not specified) named John (aged 18) and Johanna (14) Connor.

Ellen Healy, aged 65 and single (cannot read), living with servant.

Patrick Healy (38)
Mary (36), wife
Mary (12), daughter
Con (10), son
Ellie (9), daughter
John (5), son
Pat (2), son
Dan (5 months), son
Patrick and Mary were married 14 years and had seven children born alive, six of whom were still living.     

Besides the children listed below, Catherine and her husband, Joseph, may have had another daughter named Jane as my grandmother ('Babe' Shanahan, a granddaughter of Catherine and Joseph's) had an 'aunt  Jane' on her mother's side.

Healy is a very common surname throughout Ireland. For the most part, those bearing the Healy name today are descended from one of two Irish families, the Ó hEilidhe (from the Irish word "eilidhe" meaning "claimant") originally from south-east Sligo, and the Ó hEaladaighthe (from the Irish word "ealadhach" meaning "ingenious") from the parish of Donoghmore in Co. Cork. Given that Cork borders Kerry, I imagine Catherine may have been a descendant of the Donoghmore Healys.

Marriage Notes:

Witnesses were Daniel Nolan and William Sullivan.