| County | Donegal and Fermanagh |
| Location | Baronies: Tirhugh (Donegal portion), Magheraboy (Fermanagh portion) Diocese: Clogher Poor law union: Ballyshannon, Enniskillen Probate registries: Armagh, Londonderry County districts: Ballyshannon No. 2, Enniskillen No. 1 Places: Bundoran, Churchill, Derrygonnelly |
| Graveyards | Bundoran RC Cemetery Carrick* Derrgonnelly Old* Derrygonnelly RC (St Patrick’s)* Finner* Church Hill Inishmacsaint CI (Benmore)* Inishmacsaint Island* Slavin CI* Slawin (Slavin Old)* Toura RC (St John the Baptist)* *Inscriptions published by David R. Elliott, Kinfolk Finders |
| Church of Ireland Records | Finner: baptisms, 1815-1950; marriages, 1817-1925; burials, 1815-1980 (MIC1/295) Inishmacsaint: baptisms, 1813-85; marriages, 1813-1934; burials, 1813-87; confirmations, 1866-82 (MIC1/50; MIC583/6 CR1/56); extracts from baptisms, 1660-72, 1800-15; marriages, 1663-72, 1801-15 and burials, 1662-72, 1802-15 (T808/15274-15276); further extracts from baptisms, marriages and burials (T3548, CR1/7); typescript history of the parish compiled c.1920 (T2849/1) Slavin: baptisms, 1836-2001; marriages, 1847-1935; burials, 1883-2001 (MIC1/272; CR1/56; MIC583/6; CR1/96) |
| Roman Catholic Records | Devonish (Botha, Derrygonnelly): baptisms, 1853-79 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0301) Innismacsaint (Maghene, Bundoran): baptisms and marriages, 1847-80 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0291) |
| Presbyterian Records | |
| Methodist Records | Bundoran: baptisms, 1835-1932 (MIC1E/35); for marriages, see Ballyshannon (Kilbarron parish) Churchill: baptisms, 1877-1986; marriages, 1879-1934; circuit schedule book, 1866-80 (MIC1E/15, 17) Derrygonnelly: baptisms, 1871-1985; marriages, 1879-1936 (MIC1E/16) |
| Other Church Records | |
| Tithe Records | Tithe description book of the upper and middle divisions of the parish of Inishmacsaint, County Fermanagh, 1814, naming over 600 tithe-payers (D3925/1) Tithe applotment book, 1834 (FIN/5/A/156) |
| Vestry records | Finner: vestry minutes, 1847-1926 (MIC1/295) Inishmacsaint: vestry minutes, 1765-1818, 1837-70; includes the names of seatholders in part of the church, 1772 (MIC1/50/1) |
| Landed estates | Archdale estate Clogher bishopric estate Conolly estate Ely estate Montgomery estate |
| School Records | Derrygonnelly (St Patrick’s) National/PE: male register, 1867–1957; female register, 1865–1938 (SCH/978) Derrygonnelly Mill National/PE: male and female registers, 1882–1957 (SCH/1129) Glenn East National/PE/PS: female register, 1868–1962; roll books, 1882–1946 (SCH/1475) Roscor National/PE/PS: male register, 1868–1957; female, 1866–1958 (SCH/1416) |
| Local government | |
| Law and order | Derrygonnelly Petty Sessions Court: box of miscellaneous papers, depositions, recognisances, c. 1870 (HA/1/36) Printed register of spirit licences in County Fermanagh, which includes details for the Petty Sessions District of Derrygonnelly, 1892–1921 (HA/1/72/K/1) |
| Business records | Derrygonnelly Co-operative, County Fermanagh: minute book, 1898–1900 (T2737/1); minute books, 1898–78 (D4580) |
| Valuation records | Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/426A-C (Fermanagh portion) Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/17A-D (Fermanagh portion) |
| Board of Guardians | 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) |
| Famine Relief | Subscription list for Inishmacsaint parish, Tirhugh barony (Donegal), 1847 (NAI, RLFC/3/2/7/55) |
| Family papers | |
| 19thC Census | |
| Census | |
| Census subs | HMR (Donegal portion only), FL (Fermanagh portion listed under ‘Churchill’) |
| Societies, etc | |
| Printed sources | |
| Publications | P. O Gallachair, Where Erne and Drowes Meet the Sea: Fragments from a Patrician Parish (1961): history of Bundoran and neighbourhood W. K. Parke, Glimpses of Old Derrygonnelly (1978) W. K. Parke, The Parish of Inishmacsaint (1982) |
| Other sources | 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 signed by 45 Protestant parishioners of ‘Ennismacsaint’ complaining about the building of a new (Church of Ireland) parish church, 1826 (NAI, CSO/RP/1826/460) 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) |
| Ordnance Survey Memoirs | OSM, County Fermanagh II (vol. 14) |
| Notes | |