Boho parish

CountyFermanagh
Location

Baronies: Clanawley, Magheraboy

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law unions: Ballyshannon, Enniskillen 

Probate registry: Armagh

County districts: Ballyshannon No. 2, Enniskillen No. 1

Place: Boho

Graveyards

Boho CI

Boho RC (this stands on the medieval site)

Inscriptions from both burial grounds published by David R. Elliott, Kinfolk Finders

Church of Ireland RecordsBoho: earliest original registers destroyed in 1922; baptisms, 1840-1933; marriages, 1847-76; burials, 1840-79; index to baptisms, 1840-77, marriages, 1847-70, and burials, 1840-79 (T941/1; CR1/89)
Roman Catholic RecordsDevonish (Botha, Derrygonnelly): baptisms, 1853-79 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0301)
Presbyterian Records 
Methodist Records 
Other Church Records 
Tithe Records

An account of the tithes in the parishes of Devenish and Boho, 1695: long list of names – printed in W. B. Steele, The Parish of Devenish, County Fermanagh: Materials for its History (1937)

Tithe applotment book, 1827 (FIN/5/A/60)

Vestry recordsVestry minutes from 1870 onwards in local custody
Landed estates

Belmore

Clogher bishopric estate

Cooper estate

Erne estate

School Records 
Local government 
Law and order 
Business records 
Valuation records

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/41, VAL/1/B/422

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/1, VAL/2/B/4/15

Board of Guardians

Ballyshannon 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)

 

Enniskillen Union records include: minute books, 1840–1948; dispensary committee minute books: Enniskillen, 1852–99, Tempo, 1852–99; outdoor relief order books, 1899–1905; outdoor relief registers, 1848–1948 (including indexes, 1847–8 and 1865–99, prepared by D.R. Elliott); salaries book, 1893–1900; indoor registers, 1845–1949; medical relief registers: Tempo, 1887–1948, Holywell no. 1, 1899–1925, Holywell no. 2, 1906–17; records of births, 1846–1948; records of deaths, 1845–54, 1899–1922; indexed minute books of register of births, 1880–1948; vaccination registers: Ely, 1869–1945, Enniskillen, 1877–1913, Holywell, 1883–1948, Lisbellaw, 1864–1921, Tempo, 1864–97; rate book, 1876 (BG/14) 

See also Margaret Quinn, ‘Enniskillen Poor Law Union (1840–49)’, Clogher Record, vol. 7, no. 3 (1971/72) and Desmond McCabe and Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘“Better off thrown behind a ditch”: Enniskillen workhouse during the Great Famine’ in Michael De Nie and Seán Farrell (eds), Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honour of James S. Donnelly, Jr (2010)

Famine Relief 
Family papers 
19thC Census 
Census 
Census subs 
Societies, etc 
Printed sources 
Publications

E.G. Elliott, The Parish of Devenish and Boho (1990)

Edel Bannon, Louise McLaughlin and Cecilia Flanagan (eds), Boho Heritage: A Treasure Trove of History and Lore (2009)

Ordnance Survey MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh II (vol. 14)
Other sourcesMemorial signed by 28 Catholic and Protestant parishioners of the parishes of Inishmacsaint, Devenish and Boho objecting to the proceedings of a meeting held in Garrisen [Garrison] church which appointed a board of health; also the names of 13 individuals nominated to a board of health, 1832 (NAI, CSO/RP/1832/4255)
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