Clare farm tale - Tomfinlough parish

[OatesWoodsJane]

Hi, I think I may have figured out that this is the Woods farm I am looking for in an 1825 tax assessment -
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VX5N-L7W
but interestingly enough google has no record of the "Cahirnakilla East" townland that apparently existed in 1825, of the Tomfinlough parish.
Does anyone happen to know which townland this Cahirnakilla townland is now part of?

And here is an old Woods' family farm tale from Clare!

As it goes, back on the farm, when old Con was a lad in his father's household, the family was just sitting down to a noontime Sunday dinner when a neighborhood child came screaming "down the hill" with a wake-up warning.
 
"Ah, Woodses, Woodses," he cried, "our pigs is in your cabbages!" So Woodses, one and all, rose to the occasion, left their dinner and banished the horde of greedy intruders from the cabbage patch with sticks, stones, hoes and whatever weapons they could lay hand to. They then returned, victorious, to the dinner table to enjoy a cooling, but still warm meal.

A much more exciting interruption than telemarketer phone calls during the dinner hour!

Jane
 

[Sinann]

There is a Carrownakilla in that parish
Use this site http://www.thecore.com/seanruad/
Put in the county and the parish and it will give you a list of townlands.
The OSI mapviewer for old maps http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/

[hallmark]

..and Carrownakilly on     http://www.logainm.ie/en/6422

[Sinann]

There is. Joseph Woods living in Carrownakilla at the time of Griffiths Valuation
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameSearch

[OatesWoodsJane]

Thank you so much Sinann and hallmark!
Much appreciated!

[rathmore]

Woods mention on tithe apploment books, Cahirnakilla 1825

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie

census of ireland 1901

http://www.nationalarchives.ie

living at 1 Rathlkeen North

[OatesWoodsJane]

Thank you also rathmore.
The reason I decided the the particular John Woods in Cahirnakilla 1825 was highly likely to be my ancestor is because there was also an Enright, Shea, and Keane families as nearby neighbours,- all of which were part of the immediate Woods' families - and that seemed too coincidental to not be the right farm.

I recently learned from a Carrownakilly expert, Patrick O'Brien, that there are two Carrownakillys.

One (the one that Google maps shows) is the one in Killaloe parish, right on the eastern boundary of Clare, on Lough Derg.
I found the link to Patrick O.Brien's, "Looking Over My Shoulder", about this particular Carrownakilly which I can't wait to read, as it also offers a glimpse at the lives of our Clare ancestors in general.

http://clarelibrary.blogspot.ca/2015/01/new-book-on-killaloe-and-ogonnelloe.html?m=1
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The other Carrownakilly, in the Tomfinlough parish, where I think my ancestors' farm was, is near Newmarket on Fergus, which is almost directly south of the Ennis capital and more in the middle of the county. It is possible to assume that Cahirnakilla East and West Townlands were combined into one Carrownakilly Townland during land reforms.

If you search for Newmarket on Fergus, County Clare on Google Maps, to the right you will see the name Carnakilla (with Carrownakily above it). Heading north you'll see that where Carnakilla is written, the road divides into two smaller roads, between which is the location of the ancestral farm. I just took a lovely walk around the area for the first time on Street View now and pretended I was stepping back in time!

It would appear that the Woods farm passed into the Ryan family through marriage. In the 1901 census, Margaret Woods is listed as mother-in-law, and has 6 grandsons aged 8 and under. Margaret's daughter Mary, listed as wife of  Michael Ryan.
I hope to continue searching and find some distant Ryan relations!

And I must also say a hearty thank you here to Patrick O'Brien of Carrownakilly Killaloe descent, author of "Looking Over My Shoulder" for some very interesting and generous explanations!