Place name

[tioman]

I have a piece of paper detailing an ancestor (Milligan)c 1812.  It appears to say he was born in Donegal and something like 'Buncrerrand' does anyone know if there is such a place or what else it may be?

Thanks
Tioman

[Taidquest]

I have a piece of paper detailing an ancestor (Milligan)c 1812. It appears to say he was born in Donegal and something like 'Buncrerrand' does anyone know if there is such a place or what else it may be?

Thanks
Tioman


hi,maybe buncrana?
                   anne

[JAP]

Tioman,

Another possibility might be a townland called Buncronan?

You might wish to search on the following site:
http://www.thecore.com/seanruad

JAP

[Christopher]

Hello JAP,

I agree with Anne. I think it is Buncrana (original Irish name - Bun Cranncha) There is no match for the place name you mention in The AA Road Book of Ireland.

I have posted a message on http://www.buncrana.com/forums/index.php and will let you know when I hear from the posters at that site. Many of them were born in the town, some still live and work there.

Best Wishes, Christopher

[JAP]

Hello Christopher,

Buncrana is much bigger and better known and eminently likely to be the place - but it seems useful also to mention the townland of Buncronan as another possibility especially given that the word on tioman's 'piece of paper' looks to tioman like 'Buncrerrand'.

They are almost at opposite ends of Donegal.  Buncronan (in the south of Co Donegal) was a townland so I guess it wouldn't necessarily appear on a present day road atlas (unlike the 'big smoke' of Buncrana up in the north of Co Donegal!).

However, a Google will find present day references to Buncronan including a map.  Is Inver is in your AA book - and perhaps (getting closer) Drumgorman?

Buncronan was a townland in the Civil Parish of Inver in Co Donegal.

Regards,

JAP 

 

[Christopher]

Hi JAP,

Buncronan and Drumgorman are not mentioned in my copy of The AA Road Book of Ireland. The copy I have was published in 1965.

Inver. Co. Donegal Pop 150
Inbhear Náile. St Náile's Estury
A small bathing and fishing resort, with good sands, where the Eany River enters Inver Bay, an inlet of the larger Donegal Bay. Inland, to the north
east, rise the Blue Stack Mountains. Thomas Nesbitt, who invented the whaling gun-harpoon, was born near Inver in 1730 and is buried in the graveyard of the ruined Church.

Best Wishes, Chris

[JAP]

Hi again Christopher,

I guess your old AA book did show Inver

Did you Google at all?

The seanruad site shows that Buncronan was a townland of 126 acres in the County of Donegal, Barony of Banagh, Civil Parish of Inver.

The following site nicely lists all the townlands in Inver (including Buncronan, Drumgorman,etc, etc) together with a location map of the parish:
Click here for list of Inver townlands, and location map for the Parish of Inver

Google also reveals present day Buncronan sites including one for a holiday cottage at Buncronan, overlooking Inver Bay - and this has a link to a little map which shows Inver, Drumgorman and Buncronan (actually it's called Buncronan port in the little map).

Ah well, perhaps tioman will come back with more information about the 'piece of paper' which will indicate that correspondence about Buncronan is nothing but a red herring

Cheers,

JAP

[tioman]

Thanks very much for all your input folks.  I'm afraid at present I have very little information other than...

He was the son of William Milligan and Elizabeth Barr, married Helen Louisa Kennedy had six children born c 1844 - 1857 some of earlier ones were born in St Johns Newfoundland,Canada, but my Grt Grt Grandmother Eleanor Margaret was born 1851 in Ireland (1891 census info).  He was an Army pensioner and later Doorman/Scene roper at a Theatre in Glasgow when he died c 1892.

He was the Grandfather of Terence 'Spike' Milligan the famous comedian/author.

Regards
Tioman

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