Help decyphering a location - Knockmore

[Farrell Finder]

Blimey! I found them!!!  At 12:45 last night I was standing in front of my computer doing the dance of joy!  MayoAncestors.com (after buying credits to look at a couple of records) paid off BIG TIME!  But they do not seem to have any help decyphering their results.

I found my GGGGs thru 2 baptism records of their youngest children born in Ireland!!! I need help understanding all the different location names tho.

Name - Bridget Roach (Wm and Anne McAndrews are parents, my GGGG!!!!)
Denom - Roman Catholic
Address - Coolcronane
Parish - Backs/Knockmore
Region - North Mayo

Can you explain what/where Coolcronane is/was?  Also, I was told the family came from Ballina - is Knockmore in Ballina?

[shanew147]

maybe the townland of Coolcronaun ?

It's a townland of about 560 acres, and located in the civil parish of Ballynahaglish, Poor Law Union of Ballina.

Backs/Knockmore are names for RC parish which cover the civil parishes of Ballynahaglish and Kilbelfad. These appear to be to close to Ballina.


Shane

[shanew147]

the townland is shown on Google maps as Coolcronan, and it's located about 3km east of the town of Knockmore.

   Ballina to Knockmore to Coolcronan  (Google map)


Shane