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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Longford => Topic started by: Old Mother Reilly on Tuesday 05 June 12 21:08 BST (UK)
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I have found mention of a place called "Trumroe" in some papers on Longford County Election Petitions, dated 1827. The context hints at it being a townland - it was certainly in the Baronry of Granard. However, I am not having any luck locating it on lists of Granard townlands or on-line maps, new or old. Can anyone help me clarify where "Trumroe" was, is or might have been, please?
Thank you!
Rachel
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Probably Tromra which is a townland very near Granard
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Thanks, Hallmark. I did wonder and tried alternative spellings but the only Tromra I'm finding when I search maps is in Westmeath - I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here! Can you offer me any further direction?
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Here's the townland of Tromra, Co. Longford on the historic OSI map - c1835
Tromra townland, Granard civil parish (http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,633027,782468,5,7)
It's located about 2km north of Granard.
see : Granard to Tromra (http://goo.gl/maps/0Nt2) (Google Maps)
Shane
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Don't know anymore, sorry.
http://www.logainm.ie/Viewer.aspx?placeID=100020&tab=data will get you a list of Longford townlands
http://www.logainm.ie/ will bring you to Base..you can select English version (top right)....then select county from left hand map, then you get a lot of options for that county, select Townlands and you get a list of townlands for that county..then click on any townland and you get it's details...
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Thank you both very much - with your help I've finally got orientated (after hours of messing about!).
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Further to my ignorance of Tromra/Trumroe ...
I may have found a family link to this area but to be sure I have to access the relevant Roman Catholic baptism records. Although the names I am searching are quite common, I am hoping the combination and date range will prove diagnostic. However, I am not sure which RC church a family farming in this area would have attended in the 1820-1840s: would they have gone to church in Granard or one in Abbeylara RC parish (which seems to be split)? Can anyone give me a hand with this? Thanks!
Rachel
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The RC parish for Tromra would have been Granard - the town is only about 2km to the south of Tromra. Records go back quite far for a rural RC parish - about 1780.
NLI Film reference is Pos. 4237, LDS/FamilySearch also seem to have copies of these.
Abbeylara parish seems to be split into three sections around Granard parish, but it's records only go back to 1854.
Shane
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Thanks, Shane. Granard was my first thought. I've now checked the Granard baptisms available on-line at the Longford genealogy site but without success.
I'm just wondering whether they might have gone to St Mary's at Carra, which seems to be in Abbeylara parish, though not any further away from Tromra than Granard town?
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I'm just wondering whether they might have gone to St Mary's at Carra, which seems to be in Abbeylara parish, though not any further away from Tromra than Granard town?
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Carragh is in Granard civil parish - so that was probably a Chapel of Ease for Granard RC parish.
S.