Rockwood

Coill na Carraige

Claregalway Parish History 750 Years, 1999

Rockwood Name Stone, 1996

Josette Farrell, Claregalway.info

Rockwood 6" OS 1840's Map

places.galwaylibrary.ie/maps

Google Maps, Rockwood

Description

Rockwood’s only house in this area in 1851 was the landlord’s house. This is the last remaining landlord’s house in the parish to this day. In recent times the house went into disrepair for some years until the Divilly family bought it and restored it to its former glory.

Name(s): Rockwood townlands.ie/rockwood

Gaeilge: Coill na Carraige logainm.ie/rockwood

Meaning(s): Wood of the Rock

Description: The land is fertile.

Situated: Rockwood is situated on the left as one travels into Galway from Claregalway. It begins at Kiltulla road and ends at the top of Holmes’ Hill.

Sub-dominations: Holmes’ Hill

Boundaries-townland(s): Cloon, Cloonacauneen, Cregboy and Pollaghrevagh (Claregalway), Cloonacauneen, Killeen and Kiltullagh (Castlegar/Oranmore)

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

Barony: Dunkellin – Connacht Baronies

District Electoral Division (DED): Ballintemple – 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 Cloonacauneen, Claregalway or Cloonacauneen, in Castlegar. (The Records for County Galway were destroyed in 1711)

Down Survey Landowners/rockwood

O’Donovan’s field names book 1838

Rockwood

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Families

: (Pre 1911)

Galway, Holmes

Landlord(s)

John Galway

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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)