| County | Fermanagh and Monaghan |
| Location | Baronies: Clankelly (Fermanagh portion), Dartree, Monaghan (Monaghan portion) Diocese: Clogher Poor law union: Clones Probate registry: Armagh County district: Clones No. 2 (Fermanagh portion) Places: Aghadrumsee, Clones, Magheraveely, Rosslea, Smithborough |
| Graveyards | Aghadrumsee CI Aghadrumsee RC Clogh CI Clones Abbey Clones CI Clones RC Cemetery Clones Round Tower Connons RC (St Alphonsus) Magherarney RC Magheraveely Rosslea RC (inscriptions in Clogher Record, 1982–4)) Smithborough P Stonebridge P Uttony |
| Churches | CI Aghadrumsee, Clogh, Clones RC Aghdrumsee, Clones, Magherarney, Rosslea P Smithborough, Stonebridge M Clones |
| Church of Ireland Records | Aghadrumsee: baptisms, marriages and burials, 1829-1935 (MIC1/236) Clogh: baptisms, 1811-91; marriages, 1792-1910; burials, 1810-1986 (MIC1/288) Clones: baptisms, 1682-1873; marriages, 1682-1912; burials, 1682 1704, 1709, 1722-25, 1733-34, 1808-1901; vestry minutes, 1688-1885 (MIC1/147; CR1/58) |
| Roman Catholic Records | Clones: baptisms, 1848-81; marriages, 1821-81 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0297) Roslea: baptisms and marriages, 1862-81 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0318) |
| Presbyterian Records | Clones: baptisms, 1856-1984; marriages, 1859-1956 (MIC1P/273) Smithborough: baptisms, 1868-1983; marriages, 1845-1927; burials, 1883-1982; session minutes, 1873-74 and 1883-1983; communicants, 1889-1913 and 1932-55 (MIC1P/200) Stonebridge: baptisms, 1819-1980; marriages, 1819-1956; visitation book giving details of families in each townland, 1834 (MIC1P/165) |
| Methodist Records | Clones (Primitive Wesleyan): baptisms, 1872-80 (MIC1E/27) Clones (Wesleyan): baptisms, 1839-1970; marriages, 1872-1946 (MIC1E/27, 51A); baptisms, 1839-43 (MIC429/1/169) |
| Other Church Records | |
| Tithe Records | Tithe applotment book, 1832 (MIC442/10) |
| Vestry records | The vestry minutes include: names of subscribers to church repairs, 1692; allocation of ground within the church for seats for particular families, 1694; around 140 signatures appended to a meeting in 1715 to discuss where a chapel of ease should be built; lists of seatholders, 1735; over 40 names of the poor to whom badges could be issued, along with the person vouching for each one, 1741 (with updates); ‘A regulation of seats made at a vestry in Clones … [in 1735] and newly transcribed now out of that former registry … [in 1783]’, includes information on the reallocation of seats between 1735 and 1783. |
| Landed estates | Barrett Lennard estate Clogher bishopric estate Dawson estate Erne estate McClintock estate Madden estate Massereene estate |
| Schools | Aghadrumsee Aughnashalvey Bruscarnagh Clones Clones (Fortview) Clones PLU Coranny Cordoola Cornagague Drummons Glear Gortnawhinny Granshaw Greaghawarren Killelina Largy Lisroon Maghararney Magheraveely Mullanvam Rateen Rosslea Rosslea No. 2 Smithboro Stonebridge |
| School Records | Corranny National/PE/PS: female register, 1924–69 (SCH/1417) Doon National/PE School: male and female registers, 1903–42 (SCH/1402) Lisroon National/PE/PS: male register, 1865–1951; female register, 1867–1957 (SCH/1405) Magheraveely National/PE/PS: male and female registers, 1875–1955/6 (SCH/1401) Rosslea National/PE/PS: male and female registers, 1869–1951 (SCH/1403) |
| Local government | Annual accounts of Clones Town Commissioners, 1858–93 (MCL) Minute book of Clones Town Commissioners, 1875–85; minute book of the Urban District Council, 1903–30; Labourers’ Acts ledger, 1905–33 (MCM) Clones No. 1 RDC (MCL) |
| Law and order | Printed handbill signed by over 40 individuals concerning a reward fund arising from the murder of Henry Magraine of Killyfoall (Killyfole), Clones parish, and a petition from his widow seeking relief for her six orphaned children, 1826 (NAI, CSO/RP/1826/1516) Petition (containing 50 signatures) of the principal Roman Catholics of Clones concerning illegal Orange processions, 1827 (NAI, CSO/RP/1827/1005) Memorial of 34 inhabitants of Clones complaining about the behaviour of Orangemen in the town, 1828 (NAI, CSO/RP/OR/1828/133) Clones Petty Sessions Court: order books, 1855–1914; dog licences, 1866–1914 (NAI; FMP); Clones Petty Sessions Court: minute book, 1869–91 (MCM) Printed register of spirit licences in County Fermanagh, which includes details for the Petty Sessions District of Rosslea, 1892–1921 (HA/1/72/K/1) |
| Business records | |
| Valuation records | Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/46 (Fermanagh portion) Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/5A-D, /6 (Fermanagh portion) |
| Board of Guardians | Clones Union records do not appear to exist. See Pilip Ó Mórdha, ‘Some notes on Clones workhouse’, Clogher Record, vol. 15, no. 1 (1994); Brian MacDonald, ‘A time of desolation: Clones Poor Law Union 1845–50’, Clogher Record, vol. 17, no. 1 (2000) |
| Famine Relief | Subscription list of the Clones Relief Committee, 1846 (RLFC/3/1/3255) Subscription lists of the Drumsnat Relief Committee (Drumsnat parish and that part of Clones parish in the barony of Monaghan), 1846 (NAI, RLFC/3/1/5206) Subscription list for Roslea (Slutmolrooney), barony of Clankelly, 1847 (RLFC/3/2/10/5) |
| Family papers | |
| 19thC Census | 1821 census gleanings, Clankelly barony (VRTI, CEN/1821/3/34/2/1); Monaghan barony (VRTI, CEN/1821/3/36/4/2) |
| Census | |
| Census subs | HMR (listed under ‘Ballytraboy or Rosslea’ as well as Clones) FL |
| Societies, etc | Minutes of Masonic lodge no. 881, Clones, 1800–26 (GLI) |
| Printed Sources | |
| Publications | Brian MacDonald, ‘A Time of Desolation: Clones poor law union 1845–50’, Clogher Record, vol. 17, no. 1 (2000) A Clones Miscellany (2004) Kenneth Ferguson, ‘Sergeant James Graham (1791–1845) of Clones [County Monaghan], Hougoumont, and the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham’, Irish Sword, vol. 30, no. 119 (2015) The Clogher Record includes numerous articles about Clones |
| Ordnance Survey Memoirs | OSM, County Fermanagh I (vol. 4) |
| Other sources | Map of the lands of Streneniogh (Strananerriagh?), parish of Clones, 1733: townlands included are Corflugh and Coolnamarrow (NAI, M319) Map of Clones town with a list of tenants, 1768 – MIC170/4 Resolution of principal inhabitants of Clones concerning danger of invasion and affirming their loyalty, 1796: c. 170 names of those present at the meeting (MIC170/5) |
| Ordnance Survey Memoirs | OSM, County Fermanagh I (vol. 4) |
| Notes | |