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Barony: Magheraboy

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law unions: Ballyshannon, Enniskillen

Probate registry: Armagh

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

Places: Garrison, Monea

Cashelnadrea RC 

Devenish CI (Monea)*

Devenish Island

Garrison CI*

Garrison RC*

Monea RC*

Springfield Methodist

*Inscriptions published by David R. Elliott, Kinfolk Finders

CI Devenish (Monea), Garrison

RC Cashelnadrea, Garrison, Monea

M Springfield

Devenish: baptisms, 1706, 1798, 1800-23, 1828-73; marriages, 1800-24, 1829- 61; burials, 1801-22, 1828-1939 (MIC1/31; CR1/84); vestry minutes, 1830-; census, 1874 (local custody) 

Garrison: baptisms, 1879-2000; marriages, 1849­-1935; burials, 1877-2004 (MIC1/266; CR1/99) 

Garrison (Devenish): baptisms, 1860-81; marriages, 1860-80 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0311) 

Devenish (Botha, Derrygonnelly): baptisms, 1853-79 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0301)

Kilcoo: baptisms, 1877-1986; marriages, 1902-28­ (MIC1E/17-18)  

Springfield: baptisms, 1871-1985; marriages, 1879­-1936 (MIC1E/16) 

Archdale estate

Clogher bishopric estate

Ely estate

Huntingdon estate

Montgomery estate

O’Brien estate

Cashelnadrea

Doagh

Drumbeggan

Garrison

Knocknashangan

Lisded

Monea

Moyglass

Rossinuremore

Cashelnadrea National/PE/PS: roll books, 1904–30 (SCH/1476)

Devenish National/PE School: male and female registers, 1911–57 (SCH/1130)

Devenish No. 2 National/PE/PS: female register, 1919–62 (SCH/1478)

Monea (St Patrick’s) National/PE School: male register, 1870–1943; female register, 1868–1943 (SCH/980)

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/424A-D

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/16A-D

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)

W. B. Steele, The Parish of Devenish, County Fermanagh: Materials for Its History (1937)

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

P. McGuinness, Garrison: A Frontier for Two Thousand Years (1998)

An account of the tithes in the parishes of Devenish and Boho, 1695 (long list of names) – printed in Steele, The Parish of Devenish, pp 78–80

Copy memorial of the ‘Protestant Inhabitants of the Parishes of Kilbarren and Garrison, also (Innismac)saint who live nearer Belleek than any other church’, c. 1788 – DIO/2/9/660A

Memorial from the ‘Protestant Inhabitants of the Extreme end of the Parish of Devenish …’, c. 1790 (DIO/2/9/449)

Memorial 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)