Hello Roisin.
Like you I am one of the McCarroll's from the Eskragh parish, specifically Corkhill. But my family ties are not directly related to yours - although in the distance there had to be some connection.
I was interested in your comments about Maggie McCarroll. I assume that she was the one who married James Hagan. Was she a McGarrity from Agharonan? That assumption is made because I heard from Maggie Tighe (before she passed away - she was over 90 in 1982 when I first visited) that Maggie was a cousin - somehow related not only through the McCarrolls but also the McCuskers But then, aren’t all of those McCarroll's, Devine's, Donnely's, and McGarrity's “friends” as Maggie called the cousins?
My great grandmother was a McCosker, although she spelt her name as McCusker. She was from Agharonan, daughter of Patrick. She married Owen McCarroll of Corkhill and they lived in a place that was torn down by the Devines in 1982 (that was No. 2).
They had a number of children: Ellen who married Andrew Bogan; Pat who was single and made his way to San Francisco with his brother Tom, who married Catherine from Newtonsaville; Michael who went to California and returned to Fintona where he married my grandmother Agnes Gaffigan; Hugh and Jane who stayed in the Corkhill residence where my great grandmother died, and then there was Little Owen who was father to a number of children who stayed around the Omagh and Beragh areas.
Michael returned to Omagh and married Agnes, then went into business in Fintona. Mickey and Agnes, my grandparents, owned the pub in Fintona on Main Street where my father and his siblings were raised. They sold it to Francis McAtee when Michael became ill and was soon to die, in 1924. My father left for San Francisco shortly after and that was where I was raised.
