Belleek parish

CountyFermanagh
Location

Barony: Lurg

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law union: Ballyshannon

Probate registry: Armagh

County district: Belleek (originally Ballyshannon No. 2)

Places: Belleek, Castle Caldwell

Graveyards

Belleek CI

Belleek CI (Old)

Belleek RC

Keenaghan (Tievealough)

Mulleek RC

Rosbeg (Castle Caldwell)

Church of Ireland RecordsBelleek: baptisms, 1820-1918; marriages, 1823-1912; burials, 1822-1996 (with gaps) (MIC583/6, 22; MIC1/270; CR1/59)
Roman Catholic Records

Innismacsaint (Maghene, Bundoran): baptisms and marriages, 1847-80 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0291)

Templecarn (Devenish West, Belleek, Pettigo): baptisms, 1851-81; marriages, 1836-81 (https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0290)

Presbyterian Records 
Methodist RecordsBelleek: baptisms, 1832-77 (possibly in Ballyshannnon Circuit); 1878-1910 (Pettigo Circuit); post-1910 baptisms may be with Churchill Circuit baptisms; marriages, 1877-1937 (MIC1E/17, 35, 38)
Other Church Records 
Tithe RecordsTithe applotment book, 1832 (FIN/5/A/55)
Vestry recordsVestry minutes, 1822-1934 (MIC1/270/1)
Landed estatesCaldwell estate
School Records

Belleek National/PE/PS (St Davog’s): male registers, 1871–1961; female registers, 1871–1961; examination roll, 1874–84 (SCH/219)

Muleek National/PE/PS (St Davog’s): female register, 1868–1960 (SCH/1435)

Rossharbour National/PE: male register, 1884–1958; female register, 1884–1958 (SCH/251)

Tonnaghgorm National/PE/PS (St Davog’s): male register, 1866–1959; female register, 1864–1960 (SCH/1436)

Local government 
Law and order

Belleek Petty Sessions Court: order book, 1909–14 (HA/1/15)

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

Business records

Belleek Needlework Industry: invoice books, 1910–27; letter-book, 1908; Belleek Sprigging Industry: general wages and sales books, 1908–24; account books of Cashelnadrea and Garrison Lace and Sprigging Classes, 1905–06 (D2149)

Damp-press copy out-letter book of John Beacom of Belleek, Co Fermanagh, a merchant and spokesman for Belleek ratepayers, including letters about the introduction of electric lighting to Belleek Pottery Co., and the consequent supply to the town, 1913–20 (D3480/56/1)

Valuation Records

Townland Valuation (VAL/1/B/415A-B)

Tenement Valuation (VAL/2/B/4/10)

Board of GuardiansBallyshannon Union records include: minutes and rough minutes of meetings, 1840–1922; indoor relief registers, 1906–15; indoor admission and discharge registers, 1914–18 (DCA, BG/38); see also Anthony Begley, ‘Poverty, famine and the workhouse at Ballyshannon’, Donegal Annual, 41 (1989)
Famine relief 
Family papers 
19thC Census 
Census 
Census subsFL
Societies, etc 
Printed sources 
Publications

J.B. Cunningham, A History of Castle Caldwell and its Families (1980)

J.B. Cunningham, ‘The landlord, the minister, the tenant and the tithe in Belleek in 1758’, Clogher Record, 13 (1989)

J.B. Cunningham, The Story of Belleek [Pottery] (1992)

J.B. Cunningham, ‘Belleek, Ballyshannon and Pettigo in the 1790s’, Donegal Annual, 48 (1996), also printed in Ulster Local Studies, 18:2 (1997)

M. Jenks, ‘Notes on the history of Belleek Pottery’, Donegal Annual, 10 (1973)

Alastair Lings, ‘Mining and mineral working in the Belleek area, in County Fermanagh’, Journal of the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland, 11 (2011)

Joe O’Loughlin, The Church upon the Hill: 1892–1992 (1992)

Joe O’Loughlin, Old Belleek Town (2006)

Ordnance Survey MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh I (vol. 4)
Other sources 
NotesThis parish was formed out of Templecarn in 1791.