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Clare / Re: BROGAN family from Co.CLARE to Australia
« on: Monday 05 February 18 22:30 GMT (UK)  »
FYI - I see a lot of misinformation about the geography of East Clare Lough Derg.
Scarriff parish(Barony of Upper Tulla) includes the town, Moyne, Carrowmore, Fossabeg, Tuamgraney, Raheen, Callahy. 
Inishcaltra parish(Barony of Leitrim) includes Mountshannon, Cappaduff, Sellernaun, Cappaghabaun, Cloonamirran, Maghereagh.
Clonrush parish(Barony of Leitrim) includes Whitegate, Meelick, Gweeneeny, Cloonoolia, Drummaan, Cappagha, Cregg, Furnace. 
All of these townlands have been in Co. Clare since 1898, prior to that Inishcaltra and Clonrush parishes were part of Co. Galway.

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Clare / Re: BROGAN family from Co.CLARE to Australia
« on: Monday 05 February 18 22:00 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for posting this history. I only recently discovered a family connection to the Brogan and Durack families. I visited East Clare last week and stood in Cappaghabaun, Maghereagh, Sellernaun, Mountshannon, Scarriff, Cloonamirran, Ogonnelloe, and the Clonrush cemetery. I also spent time in the Co. Clare archives in Ennis photographing all I could find on the Durack, Brogan, Dillon, Sammon, Bouchier, Long and Young families from that area. Nothing much remains from the early 1800's. The great mystery I am trying to solve is who my 3rd ggrandmother? the name I have is widow Mrs. Sarah Young born about 1791 in Co. Clare, the oral history names Mountshannon. We are connected thru DNA matches to this region, and we are assuming she is a Durack, Brogan, Dillon, possibly a Sammon or Bouchier? If anyone knows of a lost sister named Sarah, please let me know. If there was some scandal such as attempted murder, that might explain why we know nothing about her family connections. Although when I read about the horrors of the smallholding farmers being evicted by the landlords, I don't know if I'd be too embarrassed by an act of revolt.

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