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Baronies: Magherastephena, Tirkennedy

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law union: Ballyshannon, Enniskillen, Lisnaskea

Probate registry: Armagh

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

Places: Arney, Belcoo, Bellanaleck, Holywell, Letterbreen, Lisbellaw

Arney RC (St Mary’s)*

Cleenish CI (Bellanaleck)*

Cleenish Old

Holywell (Templerushin)*

Holywell RC (St Patrick’s)*

Lisbellaw CI*

Lisbellaw P

Mullaghdun CI*

Mullaghdun RC*

Tattygare Cemetery

Templenaffrin (inscriptions published in Clogher Record, vol. 2, no. 1 (1957))

* Inscriptions published by David R. Elliott, Kinfolk Finders

Cleenish: earliest registers destroyed in 1922; baptisms, 1886-1947; marriages, 1845-1934; burials, 1886-1922 (MIC1/224)

Kiltyclogher: baptisms, 1898-1985; burials, 1877-1982 (MIC1/232)

Lisbellaw: earliest registers destroyed in 1922; registers of baptism and burials from 1877 onwards in local custody

Mullaghdun: earliest registers destroyed in 1922; baptisms, 1819-36 and 1878-99; marriages, 1819-34 and 1845-1921; burials, 1819-35, 1878-1927 (MIC1/245)

Cleenish (Arney): baptisms, 1835-9 and 1859-81; marriages, 1866-81 (https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0295) 

Enniskillen: baptisms, 1838-81; marriages, 1817-80 (https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0308) 

Letterbreen: Enniskillen Circuit records may include baptisms, 1823-1953, and marriages, 1864-1906, for Letterbreen; circuit schedule book, 1866-80; minutes of quarterly meetings, 1877-93 (MIC1E/15)

Lisbellaw (Wesleyan): Baptisms, 1823-78; marriages, 1866-70; circuit schedule book, 1866-80 (MIC1E/15); (Primitive Wesleyan): baptisms, 1872–8 (MIC1E/9); Baptisms, 1879-1953; marriages, 1891-1937; circuit schedule book, 1880-93 (MIC1E/10, 15)

Tithe applotment book, 1834 (FIN/5/A/72A-B)

Petition from 46 parishioners of Cleenish parish concerning the appointment of a tithe commissioner, 1833 (NAI, CSO/RP/1833/1977)

Cleenish: vestry minutes from 1823 onwards in local custody

Lisbellaw: vestry minutes from 1827 onwards in local custody

Mullaghdun: vestry minutes from 1871 onwards in local custody

Clogher bishopric estate

Enniskillen estate

Erne estate

Hassard estate

Huntingdon estate

Belcoo National/PE/PS (aka St Columban’s): male registers, 1865–1960; female registers, 1866–1959; Religious Instruction certificate book, 1869–1920 (SCH/1469)

Gardenhill National/PE/PS (aka St Columban’s): male register 1922–60; female register, 1922–60 (SCH/1466)

Holywell National/PE/PS (St Patrick’s, later St Columban’s): male register, 1918–59; female register, 1918–52 (SCH/1467)

Lattone National/PE/PS (St Columban’s): male register, 1867–1950; female register, 1867–1948 (SCH/1465)

Mullaghdun National/PE/PS (aka St Columban’s): male register, 1917–59; female register, 1916–57 (SCH/1468)

Rossdoney National/PE/PS (aka St Mary’s): male register, 1926–57; female register, 1926–54 (SCH/1423)

Tattygare PE/PS: male register, 1928–57; female register, 1927–56 (SCH/1427)

Lisbellaw: return of cases heard, 1904–12; register of licences of general dealers, 1911–20 (HA/1/72) 

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

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/42, /423, /430A-B, /432

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/1, /2A-E, /21

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); register of cases of successful vaccination, district of Churchill, 1864 (BG/14/L/15); 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)  

Lisnaskea Union records include: minute books, 1844–1948, and medical officer’s report book, 1912–21 (BG/20)