Carnmore (Athenry)

Cairn Mór

Claregalway Parish 750 Years History, 1999

Carnmore 6" OS Map 1840

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Google Maps, Carnmore

Description

The boundary between the Barony of Dunkellin and the Barony of Clare went through the east end of Carnmore (about where Greaney Glass is now). Farmers who had their land in the Clare Barony were counted as being in Carnmore West, those whose land straddled the boundary and had some in each Barony were counted as being in Carnmore East while those who had all their land in the Barony of Dunkellin were counted as being in just Carnmore.

Name(s): Carnmore townlands.ie/carnmore

Gaeilge: Cairn Mór logainm.ie/carnmore

Meaning(s): Great heap of stones

Description: The land is mainly good.

Situated: Carnmore is at the extreme eastern side of the parish adjoining Athenry along the Monivea Road where Johnny Greaney now lives.

Sub-dominations: Gortaleasa

Boundaries-townland(s): Carnmore East, Carnmore West (Claregalway) Barrettspark, Cashela, Lisheenkyle, Palmerstown (Athenry).

Civil & Church of Ireland Parish: Athenry – Claregalway Civil Parish (John Grenham)

Barony: Clare – Connacht Baronies

District Electoral Division (DED): Aughrim – Map of Ireland

Poor Law Union (PLU): Galway (Poor Law Valuation) – Poor Law Unions (1851)

County: Galway – galway.ie

Diocese: The Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora – Galway Rural

Province: Connacht(Connaught)

The Down Survey Map

(1650’s) No townland information available for Carnmore in the Barony of Clare. Information was destroyed in 1711.

Down Survey Landowners/carnmore

O’Donovan’s field names book 1838

Carnmore

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Families

: (Pre 1911)

Hanly, Kenny, Rabbitt, Rooney, Rush and Ryan

Landlord(s)

Valentine Blake

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Records

(Claregalway Parish)

Tithe Applotments (c1827)

The names of occupiers and the size of their agricultural holdings, over one acre only, in each townland. To determine the amount that they should pay in tithes to the Church of Ireland. (titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie)

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Roman Catholic Parish Registers

Baptism (Athenry 1858-1878): The Catholic Church’s collection of the parish baptismal registry. (registers.nli.ie)
Marriage (Athenry 1858-1878): The Catholic Church’s collection of the parish baptismal registry. (registers.nli.ie)

Griffith Valuation’s

Primary Valuation of Ireland

A survey involving a detailed valuation of every taxable holding of agricultural or built property on the island of Ireland. Completed between 1864-1865. (askaboutireland.ie)

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General Registry of Office (GRO) Records

Civil Registery Birth: (1864-1915) The official State records of births in Ireland. (irishgenealogy.ie)
Civil Registery Marriage: (1864-1940) The official State records of marriage in Ireland (irishgenealogy.ie)
Civil Registery Death: (1864-1960) The official State records of death in Ireland (irishgenealogy.ie)