Gortcloonmore

Gort Cluain Mór

Claregalway Parish 750 History, 1999

Gortcloonmore Name Stone, 1996

Josette Farrell, Claregalway.info

Gortcloonmore 6" OS 1840's Map

places.galwaylibrary.ie/maps

Google Maps, Gortcloonmore

Description

It has a small population today, with one family house inhabited, another not in everyday use and the Autistic Society/Health Service Executive have a house and farm there as well. During the early 20th century, when the Waterdale Estate was divided, some Gortcloonmore families moved to land they got in the division. Turf is cut there and in the past it supplied many households in the parish with winter fuel.

Name(s): Gortcloonmore townlands.ie/gortcloonmore

Gaeilge: Gort Cluain Mór logainm.ie/gortcloonmore

Meaning(s): The big meadow

Description: It is mainly low-lying but has a mixture of land ranging from good grazing pastures to bog.

Situated: Gortcloonmore adjoins the Waterdale River on the north side and Montiagh North at the other end.

Sub-dominations: An Loch Bheag

Boundaries-townland(s): Claregalway, Gortadooey, Montiagh North and Waterdale (Claregalway) Cregduff and Liscananaun (Lackagh).

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

Barony: Clare – Connacht Baronies

District Electoral Division (DED): Claregalway – 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)

Down Survey Landowners/gortcloonmore

O’Donovan’s field names book 1838

Gortcloonmore

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Families

: (Pre 1911)

Duggan, Feeney, Greally, Noone and Qualter

Landlord(s)

James Staunton Lambert

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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 (Claregalway 1849-1881): The Catholic Church’s collection of the parish baptismal registry. (registers.nli.ie)
Marriage (Claregalway 1849-1883): The Catholic Church’s collection of the parish matrimonial registry. (registers.nli.ie)
Burial (Claregalway 1849-1876): The Catholic Church’s collection of the parish burial 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 . Date of Publication for Claregalway was 1855. (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)