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Hi,

Hoping someone here can assist.

I purchased a transcription of a birth/baptism record from a commercial site.  (So, no, I haven't seen the original register entry.) The location is given as:

Parish - Dromore
Address - Drumaclass, Dromore, Banbridge

Now, Dromore parish is what I was expecting.  Likewise, reference to Banbridge makes sense as it will have been the nearest postal town (even though it is in fact in a different parish) and thereby helps with a more precise location in that it tells us which end of the parish we're concerned with.  So far, so good.

It's Drumaclass which is giving me the problem.  I can't find it - or anything like it - on any list or map.

There are similar townland names in other counties, but it's definitely Down we're talking about in this case. There's a Drumaghlis in Kilmore parish - which isn't a million miles away - but in that case the reference to Banbridge wouldn't make any sense at all.

Am stumped.  If anyone here can help, I'd be grateful.

Thanks.

Patrick McKenna was a Catholic priest who died on 10th Sept 1913 in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He may well be buried in the graveyard in the grounds of St Mary's church there.

He had been born in County Monaghan to a mother named Catherine. Going by the available census and death records (which - frustratingly - differ), his year of birth was something around 1861 to 1873. I wouldn't be surprised, however, if the real date was earlier still.

This is a different person to the Patrick McKenna who was Bishop of Clogher diocese from 1909 to 1942.

Does anyone here have any further information about him?  There are so many McKennas (with the same selection of names) that it's proving difficult to narrow things down.

Hi,

Does anyone here have access to MI transcriptions for Tydavnet/Tedavnet graveyards?


What I'm after is any info regarding the following:

Tydavnet New Graveyard: 

plot 232, names Daly & Woods, of Doogary
plot 289, name Woods, of Doogary

Tydavnet Old Graveyard:

plot 255, name Woods (Bernard & Patrick), of Doogary


Any assistance here gratefully received.  Thanks.

Hi,

I've only recently realised that there are two CoI churches of this name: one is a ruin near Cushendall & the other is a more recent one near Cushendun.

The two can be seen at these links:

http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/churches/images/antrim/layd.jpg

http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/churches/images/antrim/cushendun.jpg

I'm interested in a grave in Layd(e) church which has MI details relating to 1852-59.  As the older church had fallen into disuse by then, I had assumed that this grave was clearly in the newer church or its grounds.

However, I've seen a comment that there were still burials in the older churchyard at this point.  The MI record I'm looking at clearly says Cushendall not Cushendun, so I began to wonder if indeed it was the older church I should be concerned with.

Then I came across the modern CoI website at this link:

http://www.connordiocese.org.uk/ardclinis/

This is clearly the same place as the "newer church at Cushendun" that I had come across, but it places it at Cushendall.    Confusing.

Can anyone here with local knowledge help me out?  The gravestone is for members of the Chard family (Sarah Ann & 2 children).

TIA.