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The Half Acre Cavan Town
« on: Thursday 07 May 15 09:39 BST (UK) »
Does anyone know the history of The Half Acre in Cavan Town.

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Kennedy, Bell, Crumley, Job, Reilly, Convery, McConville & Crowley

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Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 07 May 15 10:53 BST (UK) »
Hi,
Try this

Take me through the streets of Cavan - Irish Identity
www.irishidentity.com/extras/places/stories/streets.htm

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Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 07 May 15 15:58 BST (UK) »
The Half Acre, Cavan Town gets a mention towards the end of the page on this link.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01f9q/

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Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 07 May 15 16:04 BST (UK) »
Thank you. I have been trying to find out information about The Half Acre and The Farnham Estate for some time now but with limited success.
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Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 07 May 15 18:02 BST (UK) »
http://www.farnhamestate.ie/history

History of Farnham estate on first link


http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/farnham2.pdf

2nd link   Farnham Papers -  very long
There is an index of persons commencing page 171
                  index     places                        p     190

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Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« Reply #5 on: Friday 08 May 15 19:06 BST (UK) »
I've also been trying to Find out about The Half Acre as I have relatives in my Tree from there. I know bits but not a great deal. I visited in the summer and from what I could make out from looking around and chatting to the locals it is a collection of streets, such as St Brigit's Terrace and River Street, at the river side of Cavan Town.
It was originally built to fulfil a dire need for cheap housing in the town. It's name came about because farmers /landowners in the countryside at the time were being asked/cajoled/forced to give up a half acre of land on which social houses could be built. Although the Half Acre in Cavan is probably much larger than half an acre the nature of it's housing stock led to it being given the name The Half Acre.
It was traditionally known as a 'rough' area best avoided by better class citizens although those days are thankfully long gone and it seemed a very nice place to live especially on the sunny day I visited.
Sorry if this is what you already knew Stephen, is there a particular family you are interested in that were from there? We could be long lost cousins :D
Nolan, Donohoe, O'Neill, McNally, O'Reilly

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Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 10 May 15 22:35 BST (UK) »
The family I'm interested in is Crumlin & Bell. I know very little of the Half  Acre. I had heard that the Half Acre had been given to Cavan town by Lord Farnham for social housing but am not sure if this is correct or not.
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Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 10 May 15 22:36 BST (UK) »
Sorry that name should be Crumley
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Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 12 May 15 14:27 BST (UK) »
Spotted them, in 1901 they lived next door but one to the Allens that I am interested in. Imagine, they would have known each other all those years ago!
The Farnhams did own a lot of Cavan Town although the question of Land ownership in Ireland is often a 'hot potato'. They certainly built and laid claim to many of the fancier buildings and roads although there doesn't seem to be as much evidence about the ownership of the slum areas of town, I wonder why ;-)
Nolan, Donohoe, O'Neill, McNally, O'Reilly