Lydican
Lideacáin
Claregalway Parish History 750 Years, 1999
Description
This townland is unique within the parish in that it was once a parish itself with a church. One feature of the area was the landlord’s house, known as Lydacan Castle. The Lydacan Castle was a constabulary hut and home to a branch of the Lynches of Galway.
Name(s): Lydican and Lydacan townlands.ie/lydican
Gaeilge: Lideacáin logainm.ie/lydican
Meaning(s): Small Triangular Fields
Description: The land is mostly fertile with some acres of rocky outcrops and has hazel growing there.
Situated: Lydican lies by the N18 and north of Carnmore West.
Sub-dominations: An Fheilm, Cathair na Finneoige, Cnoc na Leacht, Cnocán Aoibeann, Geata na Geann, Gort na gCuailíní, Páirc an Asail, Rock Road and Tónruadh
Boundaries-townland(s): Carnmore West, Cregboy, Gortatleva Kiltrouge, Lakeview and Lissarulla (Claregalway) Kiltullagh (Oranmore).
Civil & Church of Ireland Parish: Claregalway – Claregalway Civil Parish (John Grenham)
Barony: Dunkellin – Connacht Baronies
District Electoral Division (DED): Carnmore – 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 Gortatleva, Claregalway. (The Maps for County Galway were destroyed in 1711)
Down Survey Landowners/lydican-Lydacan
O’Donovan’s field names book 1838
Families
: (Pre 1911)
Collins, Fahy, McDonald, Malony, Cullinan, Walsh, Gardiner, Glynn, Flesk, Flynn, Dillon, Kemple, Sheridan, O’Dea and Qualter
Landlord(s)
Andrew H Lynch
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)
Census of Ireland (1821- 1911)
- 1821 vs 1831 (General Parish Population Only)
- 1831 (Summary of Returns for Claregalway Parish Only)
- 1841 (Summary of Returns for Parish Only)
- 1851 (Summary of Returns for Townlands Only)
- 1861 (Summary of Returns for Townlands Only)
- 1871 (Summary of Returns for Townlands Only)
- 1881 (Summary of Returns for Townlands Only)
- 1891 (Summary of Returns for Townlands Only)
- 1901 (Lydican or Lydacan)
- 1911 (Lydican or Lydacan)
Research
Index and Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills, 1708-1929
by Registry of Deeds, Dublin
familysearch.org/registryofdeeds/search/
Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI)
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is a unit of the National Monuments Service.
- Country house – GA083-054001
- Bawn – GA083-054003
- Ringfort – GA083-052
- Field System – GA083-055002
- Enclosure – GA083-055001
- possible Enclosure – GA083-076
- Small Circular Enclosure – GA083-057
- Ringfort – GA083-053
- Ringfort – Cashel – GA083-056
archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/
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