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Genealogy
and Family History Notes for Co. Roscommon, Ireland
The
great Irish famine: Words and images from the Famine Museum, Strokestown
Park, County Roscommon
Roscommon
Before the Famine: The Parishes of Kiltoom and Cam, 1749-1845 (Maynooth
Studies in Local History)
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Roscommon
County, IRELAND
Roscommon
Genealogy
- Roscommon (History & people etc) -
I
don't like 'pure' genealogy per se, that is, the putting of names
on a family tree, instead I like to know about the people, how they
lived and the places they lived in. There are lots of people who
are not like me, who do like to know just the names and where they
came from. The pages linked to below are pretty much to do with
pure genealogy (but a little bit of the other thrown in!).
To
my mind, the Lewis Topographical Dictionary is one of the most
valuable and ignored tools for genealogists or family historians
because it gives us alternative names and spellings of parish
names, also, most importantly it names the religious parishes
which cover any civil parish. I find that people generally do
not understand the Civil Registration Districts and the fact that
a district can cover townlands in different counties. If anyone
(myself included before I got to know all this) thinks of Athlone,
they immediately think of County Westmeath - they'd never think
of it having anything to do with County Roscommon and genealogical
research in County Roscommon.
There
is more to do with Roscommon Genealogy on the History & people
tables
Every
time I have seen someone ask if anyone knows anything about education
or emigration on any of the mail lists I have been subscribed to I
always think of the 1931 descriptions of the counties in Ireland which
I have on line. At the end of every county description there are tables
listing the figures for emigration from the county, education in the
county, whether or not the people speak Irish, and a breakdown of
the religious denominations in the county taken from various census
returns from 1821 through 1926. So, these descriptions are of historical
and genealogical importance.
The
Official Authority listings for the counties listed below include
the addresses of the people named, some of whom were lviing in County
Roscommon. The Diocescan listings were one of the first sets of
pages I created for this web site, because sometime way back then
I had read that when a man qualified as a priest he was usually
put back into his own parish, originally I had considered these
tables of importance because they told us the names of the Roman
Catholic parishes in a Diocese in 1836 (which sometimes changed
over the years) and they also told us the name of the closest post
town - this never changed. So, to me, these lists help if I am looking
for a Roman Catholic parish which no longer exists. I find the name
of the closest post town to where-ever it is I am loking for information
about and then I find the records which co exist for that area,
regardless of the name.
Lists
such as the 1832 Military list, the Revenue Officers, the Admiralty
Examinations, the General Synod, the Presbyterian Synod - these can
apply to any county - they are of genealogical & historical value.
Cahal
Crovederg or Charles of the Red Hand
Discovery
Map No. 25. Sligo East, Leitrim, Roscommon (Tobbercurry, Sligo,
Dromahaire, Ballymot)
Discovery
Map No. 26. Cavan, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo(Dromahaire,
Swanlinbar, Drumshanbo)
Discovery
Map No. 32. Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo(Swinford, Charlestown, Ballyhaunis,
Ballaghderreen, Knock)
Discovery
Map No. 33. Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo, Longford(Carrick on Shannon,
Boyle, Roosky, Mohill, Strokestown)
Discovery
Series Map No. 39. Galway, Mayo, Roscommon. (Parts of Roscommon
covered include: Ballinlough - Castlerea - Cloonfad - Garranlahan
- Leamore - Trien)
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