The Church Records page on the
'From Ireland' © website of Dr. Jane Lyons of Dublin contains sections about the five main denominations in Ireland. These include the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) who arrived in Lurgan, Co. Armagh and Lisburn, Co. Antrim in the mid-17th century.
www.from-ireland.net/gene/churchrecrds.htm#quakers1Dr Lyons refers to
Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) on this page but she also has another page which explains the importance of this Dictionary in greater detail ... it can help us identify townlands which we may not find listed in any of the townland directories such as the thecore.com/seanruad IreAtlas website.
http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/allcounties.htm Use the 1837 Dictionary of Samuel Lewis in conjunction with Sean Ruad's IreAtlas as this may assist in finding that elusive townland.
One of the reasons a guy may have moved from England to Ireland in the nineteenth century would be an involvement in the building of the railways. Almost all of the Irish railway network was built between the years 1845 to 1865. Men who had some experience in the construction of bridges, harbours and railways as well as buildings which might have included banks, churches, department stores, factories, offices and railway stations may have gone to Ireland. Probably a few textile engineers were in Ireland at that time as well. Don't forget the armed forces too.
