Derrybrusk parish

CountyFermanagh
Location

Baronies: Magherastephana, Tirkennedy

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law unions: Enniskillen, Lisnaskea

Probate registry: Armagh

County districts: Enniskillen No. 1, Lisnaskea

Places: Inishmore, Belleisle

GraveyardsDerrybrusk CI
Church of Ireland RecordsDerrybrusk: earliest registers destroyed in 1922; later records in local custody; petition signed by 41 inhabitants of the Church of Ireland parish of Derrybrusk concerning the site of a proposed new church, 1825 (NAI, CSO/RP/1825/5)
Roman Catholic RecordsEnniskillen: baptisms, 1838-81; marriages, 1817-80 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0308) 
Presbyterian Records 
Methodist RecordsInishmore (Innishmore): baptisms, 1872-1925; circuit schedule book, 1866-93 (MIC1E/9, 15)
Other Church Records 
Tithe RecordsTithe applotment book, 1825 (FIN/5/A/92)
Vestry records 
Landed estates

Belmore estate

Clogher bishopric estate

School Records

Clontycoora (St Mary’s) National/PE/PS: male and female registers, 1910–58 (SCH/1424)

Derryharney National School: male and female register, 1865–1916; male register, 1865–1930 (SCH/155)

Local government 
Law and order 
Business records 
Valuation records

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/431, /433

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/22

Board of Guardians

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)

Famine Relief 
Family papers 
19thC Census 
Census 
Census subsFL
Societies, etc 
Printed Sources 
Publications 
Ordnance Survey MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh I (vol. 4)
Other sources

‘Cash rec’d by Mr Armar from ye parishioners’, 1747–52: covers parishes of Derrybrusk and Enniskillen, gives names and in many cases residences (D627/14; volume broken into several sections, with an index of names for one section at the front)

Tithe received by Mr Armar out of Derrybrusk and Enniskillen parishes, c. 1750: over 140 names, but no residences (D627/15)

NotesPrior to its reorganisation in 1856, this was a small and fragmented parish. Researchers should also refer to sources available for neighbouring parishes.