O’Callaghan clan celebrate wedding 150 years on

There were global family ties at a weekend gathering where an extended clan celebrated the anniversary of their shared ancestors’ wedding almost 150 years earlier.

More than 260 members of the O’Callaghan family travelled from around Ireland and six other countries to be in the Cork church where Daniel O’Callaghan and Ellen Leary were married on July 28, 1865.

The Mass featured a candle-lit ceremony in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Farran. The offertory gifts included a piece of oak to represent the family tree, a ring from the wedding of Daniel and Ellen’s son Humphrey, and a potato to represent the family background.