JFK’s daughter to visit sites of family ancestral homes

John F Kennedy’s daughter Caroline is set to visit the sites of the Fitzgerald family homesteads in Co Limerick, where fresh research shows JFK’s great grandfather and great grandmother grew up as neighbouring first cousins.

Land records show that both Thomas Fitzgerald and Mary Ann Fitzgerald — the paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother to JFK’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy — were cousins who lived beside each other on the Palatine Rd in Bruff.

On the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s visit to Ireland, his daughter Caroline Kennedy will be brought to the site of her great, great grandparents’ homes on Jun 21, when she visits Bruff as part of The Gathering.