Aghavea parish

 

CountyFermanagh
Location

Barony: Magherastephana

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law union: Lisnaskea

Probate registry: Armagh

County district: Lisnaskea 

Places: Brookeborough

Graveyards

Aghavea CI (inscriptions published in Clogher Record, vol. 4 (1961); inscriptions also published by David R. Elliott, Kinfolk Finders) 

Brookeborough RC

Lismalore RC Cemetery

Churches 
Church of Ireland Records

Aghavea: baptisms, 1815-1926; marriages, 1815­1907; burials, 1815-1986 (MIC583/8, MIC1/229); papers about Aghavea, 1853–69 (DIO/4/25/6/8) 

Tattykeeran: baptisms, 1857-78; marriages, 1874-8, burials, 1874-8 (MIC1/229)

Roman Catholic RecordsAghavea (Brookeborough): Baptisms, 1862-82; marriages, 1866-81 and 1896-7 (https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0285)
Presbyterian Records 
Methodist RecordsBrookeborough: baptisms, 1841-1954; marriages, 1867­1917; circuit schedule books, 1865­1909 (MIC1E/28); baptisms, 1841-4 (MIC429/1/212); lease of ground used to build a stable and chapel-keeper’s house in connection with the Methodist Church in Brookeborough 1876 (D3952/35)
Other Church Records 
Tithe RecordsTithe applotment book for Aghavea, 1832 (D998/22/1); survey of Aghavea (in connection with the tithe applotment), 1832 (FIN/5/8)
Vestry recordsVestry minutes, 1762–1947, including a poor list, 1774 (name and address of poor person plus name of person making recommendation); names of persons appointed to sit on a committee to decide on the poor, 1774; poor lists, 1833–40 (MIC1/229D/1–2)
Landed estates

Brooke estate

Clogher bishopric estate

Erne estate

Schools 
School Records

Brookeborough No.1 National/PE/PS (aka St Mary’s): male registers, 1872–1963, female registers, 1869–1963 (SCH/211)

Brookeboro No.2: male register, 1884–1945, female register, 1884–1945 (SCH/221)

Coolrakelly National/PE School: male register, 1879–1951, female register, 1879–1951 (SCH/1142)

Littlemount PE: male register, 1938–59 (SCH/1109)

Local governmentRate books for the electoral divisions of Brookeborough, Cross, Deerpark, Greenhill, Grogey, Lisnaskea, 1899 (LA/4/5/BA) 
Law and order

Brookeborough Petty Sessions Court: warrant book, 1906–28 (including a register of applications for a general dealer’s licence, 1907–08); fines book, 1845–53 (HA/1/16)

Printed register of spirit licences in County Fermanagh, which includes details for the Petty Sessions District of Brookeborough, 1892–1921 (HA/1/72/K/1)

Business recordsPapers of the Fivemiletown & Brookeborough Co-Operative Agricultural & Dairy Society Ltd, 1928–40 – D3057/5/1/2
Valuation records

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/429

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/20A-C

Board of GuardiansLisnaskea Union records include: minute books, 1844–1948, and medical officer’s report book, 1912–21 (BG/20)
Famine ReliefPapers of the Brookeborough Relief Committee (covering the electoral divisions of Brookeborough, Colebrooke, Aghavoory, Derrycrum and Derrycullen), including subscription list, 1846–7 – NAI, RLFC/3/2/10/19
Family papersBundle of eight letters from William Armstrong to family members, including his father John in Brookeborough, 1805–13 – T2655/5
19thC Census1821 census gleanings (VRTI, CEN/1821/3/34/7/2)
Census subsFL
Societies, etc 
Printed sources 
Publications

Jack Johnston (ed.), The Brookeborough Story: Aghalun in Aghavea (2004)

Darryl Davey, ‘The Rev. William Leslie Rector, of Aghavea, and his descendants in Ireland’, Clogher Record, 18:3 (2005)

Ordnance Survey MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh I (vol. 4)
Other sourcesIlluminated address presented to the Duke of Abercorn by the inhabitants of Brookeborough, 1926 (D623/E/144 – use MIC18/12)
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