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Donegal / Re: Records for St. Columba's Catholic Church Cashel Glencolumbkille Donegal Ireland
« on: Thursday 29 March 18 10:24 BST (UK)  »
Sorry, I should have said, it looks as though plots 17 and 18 line up with properties 8 and 6/7 respectively. When you compare the historic map to the modern one and Google Earth. It certainly looks that way to me, because as children we used to walk across the road from my grandparents to swim in the stream where there was a small waterfall and reasonably deep enough water.

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Donegal / Re: Records for St. Columba's Catholic Church Cashel Glencolumbkille Donegal Ireland
« on: Thursday 29 March 18 08:29 BST (UK)  »
Hello all, If you look up The Griffiths Valuation 1857 for Glencolmbkille and then Braade Upper you can find Property  6/7 as being tenanted by Bridget and Daniel Curry with No 8 as being tenanted by Mary Curry. So either we were Curry at one time or else the enumerator wrote the name as he heard it. Bearing in mind that this generation were not literate. I have also found my ancestors referred to as Curren and Currin on other documents. The immediate lessorof the properties is probably a solicitor or the like acting as the agent for a wealthy absentee landlord, probably English. The Earl Coyningham crops up as the most likely owner.

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Donegal / Re: History of Braade Upper (Braide Upper) Glencolmbkille and Curran Family
« on: Thursday 23 February 17 08:19 GMT (UK)  »
Hello, I found the website, IRISH GENEALOGY to be be very good. Use GLENTIES as the registration district when making your searches. It's not a complete record since I have been unable to locate two family members that I know were born in Braade Upper in 1907 and 1913, however I did find registrations of birth, marriage and death documents of other relatives. Some of whom were from my great grandparents generation. I can now identify not only Currans but also direct links to McGonagles of Meenadreen, McGinlys of Meenacross and McGintys of a so far unknown townland.

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Donegal / Braade Upper Glencolmkille Co. Donegal
« on: Saturday 28 January 17 15:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hi to all, I have a pretty good knowledge of my Irish family who were Curran 8 Braade Upper. By using the 1901 and 1911 census I can fairly accurately get the birth year and marriage year of my ancestors. Luckily by using the site Ireland Reaching Out and following links to Glencolmkille and find a grave, I was able to pinpoint certain dates of births and deaths. I always knew my Irish grandmother was a Margaret McGonagle and with a bit of detective work found her and her family in Meenadreen. From the Civil Marriages 1864/1870 which I found on Donegal Genealogy site, I found her parents marriage in 1866 John McGonagle and Bridget McGinly (from Meenacross) that same record showed their fathers names as Peter and Patrick. So I can now get back to their births being around 1810/15 I hope some of this is useful if you're looking for where to search, if you happen to find anything yourselves please post it, I'd love to hear any snippets of information.

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Donegal / Re: Records for St. Columba's Catholic Church Cashel Glencolumbkille Donegal Ireland
« on: Saturday 28 January 17 15:12 GMT (UK)  »
Kmuttleyjr. It sounds as though Your John Joseph and Hugh would have been one generation before the John Joseph and James John that I mentioned. Since they were aged 14 and 12 at the 1911 census, they seem just the right age to have served at the time of independence and civil war.

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Donegal / Re: Records for St. Columba's Catholic Church Cashel Glencolumbkille Donegal Ireland
« on: Saturday 28 January 17 14:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hello to kmuttleyjr in particular, I suspect that the army details you supplied, refer to the Irish Republican Army of about 1920. A difficult time for many in Ireland, what with independence and then civil war. Many people just wanted to get on with their daily lives and not get politically involved. My understanding was that Glen was not exactly a hotbed of activity although some young men of the parish may have been tempted by political persuasion to travel beyond Glen and take part in creating Irish history.

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Donegal / Re: Records for St. Columba's Catholic Church Cashel Glencolumbkille Donegal Ireland
« on: Friday 27 January 17 23:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hello again, I've not been back to Ireland since 1966/7 My cousin Cathal Curran took on the farming at No8 when the uncles became too old. As far as I am aware he still is the freeholder. most of the properties on the north side of the road still appear to hold true to their original footprints, I remember clearly having to walk to the left of my grandparents drive and across to the left in order to reach the other Currans Croft, where I only recall the mother and two sons. John Joseph being one and James John (I think) being the other.

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Donegal / Re: Records for St. Columba's Catholic Church Cashel Glencolumbkille Donegal Ireland
« on: Friday 27 January 17 22:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hello, My Name is Paul Curran. My father, my grandparents and my great grandparents all lived at No 8 Braade Upper. Next door was another Curran family but not relatives. I can trace the burials in St Columbas church graveyard of most of my Irish family. I can only use 1901 and 1911 census records for some of the family and rely on the burial records found on "Ireland reaching out" website and following the link to Glencolmcille and "find a grave" to find some others. I can't find any other records except to be able to make some links to my maternal grandmothers family, McGonagles of Meenadreen and her mothers family McGinlys of Meenacross. Sorry I can't give any more help.

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