Derryvullan parish

CountyFermanagh
Location

Baronies: Lurg, Tirkennedy

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law unions: Enniskillen, Irvinestown (Lowtherstown)

Probate registry: Armagh

County districts: Enniskillen No. 1, Irvinestown No. 1

Places: Irvinestown (Lowtherstown), Lisnarick, Tamlaght

Graveyards

Castle Archdale CI

Derrybrusk

Derryvullan CI

Derryvullan Old

Irvinestown CI

Irvinestown Old

Irvinestown RC

Irvinestown (Lowtherstown) Workhouse

Lisnarick

Townhill Cemetery

Whitehill RC

Churches

CI Castle Archdale, Derryvullan, Irvinestown

RC Irvinestown, Whitehill

P Irvinestown

M Irvinestown

Church of Ireland Records

Castle Archdale: baptisms and burials, 1842- ; marriages, 1892- (local custody)

Derryvullan (Derryvullan South): earliest registers destroyed in 1922: baptisms, 1877-1916; marriages, 1845­-1903 (MIC1/308)

Derryvullan (Derrvullan North, Irvinestown); baptisms, 1803-1909; marriages, 1803­-1934; burials, 1804-1902; poor list, 1823-40 (MIC1/34; MIC583/2 CR1/37) 

Roman Catholic Records

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

Irvinestown (Whitehill/Whitehall): baptisms, 1846-81; marriages, 1851-82 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0313)

Presbyterian RecordsIrvinestown: baptisms, 1842-1918; marriages, 1846­-1934; list of members and of communicants, 1913 (MIC1P/66)
Methodist RecordsIrvinestown: baptisms, 1829-1913 (circuit); marriages, 1863-1918 (MIC1E/37); baptisms, 1829-44 (MIC429/1/217) 
Other Church Records 
Tithe RecordsTithe applotment book, 1835 (FIN/5/A/96A-B)
Vestry records

Derryvullan (Derryvullan South): vestry minutes, 1864-1920 (MIC1/308)

Derryvullan (Derrvullan North, Irvinestown); vestry minutes, 1804-73; poor list, 1823-40 (MIC1/34; CR1/37) 

Landed estates

Archdale estate

Belmore estate

Clogher bishopric estate

Cooper estate

Enniskillen estate

Schools

Castle Irvine

Coolaness

Cules

Drummal

Irvinestown

Irvinestown PLU

Liscrievan

Slee

St Molaisse

School Records

Castle Irvine National/PE: male and female registers, 1876–1950 (SCH/985)

Cules and Killadeas National/PE/PS: male and female registers, 1870–1956 (SCH/26, see also MIC/15H/141)

Drummal National/PE/PS: male register, 1884–1955; female register, 1884–1953 (SCH/229)

Irvinestown National/PE/PS: male and female registers, 1884–1959/60 (SCH/1447)

Tamlaght National/PE: male and female registers, 1915–68 (SCH/1127)

Local government 
Law and orderPrinted register of spirit licences in County Fermanagh, which includes details for the Petty Sessions District of Irvinestown, 1892–1921 (HA/1/72/K/1)
Business recordsIrvinestown Co-operative, County Fermanagh: share ledger, 1897–1964 (D3089)
Valuation records

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/419, /434

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/11A-B, /21, /22, /23A-C

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)  

Irvinestown (Lowtherstown) Union records include minute books, 1840–1948; dispensary committee minute books: Ederney, 1852–99, Lowtherstown, 1852–99; outdoor relief registers, 1847–1946; outdoor relief applications and report book, 1906–49; indoor registers, 1845–1918; Irvinestown no. 1 medical officer’s report book, 1887–1948; records of births, 1846–1918; records of deaths, 1899–1918; Clonelly vaccination register, 1904–47; indexed minute book of register of births, Ederny, including details of vaccinations, 1899–1912 (BG/15) 

See also John B. Cunningham, ‘An analysis of Irvinestown workhouse: a Famine case study’, Ulster Local Studies, vol. 18, no. 1 (1996) and Breege McCusker, Lowtherstown Workhouse (1997)

Famine ReliefMinute book of Moorfield Relief Committee, 1847 (BG/15/AF/1)
Family papers 
19thC Census1821 census gleanings, Lurg barony (VRTI, CEN/1821/3/34/5/2)
Census 
Census subsRelC (Protestants and Catholics; includes townlands), FL
Societies, etc 
Printed Sources 
PublicationsBreege McCuster, Irvinestown Through the Years (1984)
Other sources 
Ordnance Survey MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh I (vol. 4)
NotesThis parish is split into two separate portions, sometimes referred to as North and South.