The use of Doogerry, or some variation on that name, also caused me great confusion. I now believe that, at one time, the locals referred to Carrownaraha as Doogerry. The placename Doogerry now appears to be lost.
Darby Moran (Margaret Moran's father) is recorded in the Griffith Valuation as a landholder in Carrownaratha. The maps on
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ identify the holding as the farm where I spent some of my summer holidays about 70 years ago. He is identified as living in Doogerry as the father of the bride on the wedding cert.
Some time ago I did a search for various registration certs for those living in Carrownaraha in the 1901 Census. On almost all that I found the residence was recorded as Doogerry and not Carrownaraha. I did see one reference to Springhill which is a neighboring "townland".
Doogerry was the address that my father and mother used in writing to my grandparents until the early 50s. At that stage, the Post Office requested that the address be changed to Springhill.
I have failed to find any reference on the web to a placename of Doogerry or similar in that area. After a gap of about 30 years, I revisited the area in the 80's I sought instructions from the Garda station in Ballyvary. No one there had any knowledge of Doogerry. I set out to find it and got instructions from an elderly gentleman who gave me details of my grandfather's holding.
There is a place called Doohana which is very close to Carrownaraha. On the Griffith Valuation Maps, the Moran holding(s) are close to Doohana. I often wonder if Doogerry was a corruption of Doohana. Perhaps someone local might have some local knowledge.
