Help with reading a town or Parish name please!

[Ninatoo]

Can anyone here read or recognise the town or Parish on this snippet of a birth certificate please?  I can see that the couple married in January 1840 in Co. Leitrim, but I cannot find any town or Parish remotely like what it seems to say here.



Thanks for reading,

Nina

[dollylee]

Farabarr?

Very hard to read I agree !!!

dollylee

[Ninatoo]

Dolly,

That is what I thought it said, but cannot find any reference to a town or Parish called Farabarr.

Nina

[griz]

Could it be Tara(b?arr? It definately looks like the first letter is an 'F' but maybe its a  'T'.

The second letter also looks like the other 'a' samples. I suppose it could be an'o'.   orr ?

How frustrating for you.

[PrueM]

I thought it looked like Farabarr as well, so after some creative Googling I came across this document:
www.leitrimcoco.ie/about/Meetings/minutes/council/2005/125200510%20Jan%2005%20Main%20Meeting.doc
which mentions the following:

At the outset of the meeting Councillor Sean McDermott proposed a vote of sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Michael John Leonard, Laghty, Glenfarne P.O., on the death of Aiden Leonard and to Mr. and Mrs. Seamus McSharry, Farrabarr, Glenfarne P.O, on the death of Adrian McSharry.

The document is dated January 2005.  Not sure what Farrabarr is, but Glenfarne is in Leitrim so maybe it's worth further digging around there?

Prue

[griz]

Well done, Prue! 

[Ninatoo]

Thanks for all the replies.  I do think Prue has found the location, which is GREAT!

Pity I can't find any information on Farrabarr itself...it must be a tiny place!

Nina

[PrueM]

Hi ninatoo,
Is there a Leitrim family or local history society maybe?  They might be able to help - or the local library?
Prue

[Elizabeth Revel]

Like Prue, I googled and found this grave stone transcription:

Crawford Isabella. Erected by Robert Crawford, of Farrabar in memory of his daughter Isabella Crawford who died 17.5.1897 aged 35 years, also his wife Isabella died 31.1.1905. Robert died 22.10.1905. Elizabeth Crawford, Brookeborough died 28.7.1946 also her husband John died 29.12.1949.

There was no indication of the specific location of this particular inscription.

Beth