Help with a Swinford Mayo Location

[Martin514]

Hi Folks,

I'm attempting to track the family of James Gavan/Gavin and his wife Mary Kennedy Gavan/Gavin

I'm a bit mystified by a name that's cropped up on some of the records associated with the family, If I'm reading the attached record correctly its: Pullahurra - anybody know where exactly this is?? I looked on Townlands.ie and Loganim.ie without success

Martin

[Milliepede]

If the informant was still alive in 1901 you could look them up and see if their address helped with the location at all.

[Sinann]

On James and Mary's marriage, this name is the address of Mary.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1885/10863/5966303.pdf
This looks like her father Pat's death
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1903/05651/4590896.pdf
in Cloonfinnaun
I think this could just be a simple case of how they pronounced the name and the registrar not understanding what they were saying or it was a local name for a part of the townland which is lost today.
I had a family using a very old name as their address which I only found on one record from the 1840s about repairing flood damage at their mill and later as the name of a greyhound. If they hadn't been millers and known in living memory I would never have been able to work out where they lived.

[heywood]

Sinann,
Do you think this could be that Patrick Kennedy in 1901? The age is out and he has a daughter Mary Kennedy with him so nothing matches up.
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Swineford/Cloonfinnaun/1600825/

[Sinann]

Yes I noticed him, that would be two daughter's called Mary, doesn't add up.
It would be good to know of other living children to find them in the census, I've struggled with this family last night and today.
I also wondered if the Pull could refer to a hole of some kind, but looking a Griffith's I can see anything obvious, unless it's a name for the bog land.

[Sinann]

James' baptism, left hand page
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632338#page/153/mode/1up
Cloonfinane

[heywood]

Looks good and a John Kennedy godparent.
Where are the Gavans in 1901?

[Sinann]

Could that Mary in the census be Mary Gavin but listed with her maiden name, assumed not married.

[heywood]

Yes, I wondered that too but where are the children and her husband?