Which Union is the Registrar's District of Kildorrery (Co Cork) in ?

[kob3203]

From a 1931 marriage registration I have "in the Roman Catholic Church of Ballindangan in the Registrar's District of Kildorrery in the Union of Fermoy in the county of Cork"

The RC church of Ballindangan is almost certainly the Church Of The Immaculate Conception here https://www.google.com/maps/search/52.236570,-8.335787, which appears to be in Castleterry townland (checked at townlands.ie, logainm.ie, and osi.ie / webapps.geohive.ie )

johngrenham.com shows the 'place' Ballindangan to be in the Registrar's District of Kildorrery, but in the Mitchelstown Poor Law Union, not Fermoy.

So which is correct ?

(And just in case - Unions and Poor Law Unions are the same thing, aren't they ?)

[Kiltaglassan]

Check out this first marriage in 1896.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1896/10502/5825102.pdf

Marriage solemnized at the Roman Catholic Chapel of Ballindangan in the Registrar's District of Kildorrery in the Union of Mitchelstown in the County of Cork.

[kob3203]

My 1931 ones definitely say Fermoy
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1931/09017/5263072.pdf

Found a 1926 one too, also Fermoy
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1926/09117/5297717.pdf

So it looks as if some time between 1896 and 1926 the boundaries changed ?

Trying to find some Kildorrery marriages over that period.

[kob3203]

Some time between 1915 and 1917 apparently:

1915 Mitchelstown
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1915/09805/5560209.pdf

1917 Fermoy
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1917/09755/5540714.pdf

[Kiltaglassan]

Some time between 1915 and 1917 apparently:

Local Government Board (Ireland)
Volume 90: debated on Thursday 15 February 1917

Copies presented of Orders made by the Board under the Poor Relief (Ireland) Acts (1) dissolving the Mitchelstown Union and adding the several townlands thereof to the Fermoy Union; (2) revoking Article 37 of the General Regulations of 18th December, 1882, and substituting therefor a fresh Article to be read and construed in place of the Article revoked [by Act]; to lie upon the Table.

Papers laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House:—
 1. Bank of England.—Copy of all Applications made by the First Lord of the Treasury and the. Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England for advances to Government authorised by Parliament, from 5th January, 1916, to 5th January, 1917 [by Act]; to be printed. [No. 24.]2. Lunacy and Mental Deficiency.— Copy of Second Annual Report of the Board of Control on Lunacy and Mental Deficiency for the year 1915. Part I. [by Act]; to be printed. [No. 25.]

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1917-02-15/debates/f73c58fd-5dd0-4bc6-80c9-c414bfeed3a1/LocalGovernmentBoard(Ireland)

[kob3203]

Thank you. That sounds like the perfect explanation.