_ Éibhear _ _ Flaithrí _______ Muireann _ _ Eoghan _ Teaghlach (The Neff Family) in 1998

A TREE :
Flaithrí & Eoghan's great great grand-father, John Neff, came to Cork from the Black Forest, Germany, about 1865, married Mary Kennedy, daughter to James Kennedy, a mariner. Not long after, John established a business on the Grand Parade, Cork, as a Watch-Maker and Jeweler producing gold and silver pocket-watches.

Their great grand-father, James, married Mary McAuliffe from Meelin in Sliabh Luachra, daughter of Florry McAuliffe, a stonecutter and monument maker.

Their grand-father, Florry, married Mary Forde, daughter of James Forde of farming stock from Ballincollig. Florry and his brothers were known in Cork city as ‘the chalky gods’ because of their business in Father Matthew Street of statue making and decorative cornices. The crucifixion on the Healy Pass on the Cork-Kerry border and many of the grottoes around Cork were made by the Neff Brothers. An amusing fact that has become well known is of the Crucifixion in Macroom graveyard with the inscription on the back ‘Executed by Neff Brothers’.