My ancestor, Robert Lowe of Lurgan, Offaly, owned 105 acres in "Attysheogue, Tobber, Offaly", and owned 62 acres in "Tubber". He acquired them in 1860 and sold them in 1863.
Inquiring minds are dying to know. What is Attysheogue? Griffiths thinks Tobber/ Tubber is a townland named Tober. But Attysheogue has the appearance of a townland.
Google has never heard of Attysheogue.
I imagine the name is spelled roughly phonetically correctly, in English phonetics or else Gaelic phonetics, which probably leaves a large number of possibilities.
I also need to find "Gargan", and "Beechmount". Beechmount is spelled more than one way.
Most of the places where these people lived were along the Westmeath/ Offaly border, and for instance there is real confusion about where the townland Lurgan is, and indeed the maps leave me wondering if the county line moved. So this place could conceivably be in County Westmeath.
For some unaccountable reason, Robert's spinster daughters lived at High St in Tullamore in 1905. Their family seemed to be living in Tyrellspass (Cornaher) and Lurgan.
Robert is described as "of Lurgan" in both deeds - very peculiar. He and his son held land in Raheenduff, Geashill, Offaly, in the 1890's, south of Tullamore, and in Cornaher, County Westmeath, 6 miles to the east, in the 1890's. Very peculiar. Unless the family were more widespread than can be proven with available evidence, or else based elsewhere than immediately around Lurgan, they didn't hold much at all in the 1820's through 1850's. Yet I get the idea the family was very pretentious. A son was forced to emigrate to Canada for marrying the daughter of the chief tenant who lived on the other side of the barnyard. The family were descended from Cromwellian gentry, and Cornaher was one of the original core Low estates. My 3x great grandfather, a "laborer" at age 22 in the 1830's, joined the RIC, never returned home, and I have the idea he didn't care, and his descendants forgot where they were from except that his brother had lived in Cornaher, and the RIC record identified his county of birth and his landlord, and also this is the Lowe line that carries a story about Lowes more than six feet tall. (Samuel the seven foot giant)
Thanks!
Dora
