Inishmacsaint parish

CountyDonegal 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 recordsDerrygonnelly 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 ReliefSubscription list for Inishmacsaint parish, Tirhugh barony (Donegal), 1847 (NAI, RLFC/3/2/7/55)
Family papers 
19thC Census 
Census 
Census subsHMR (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 MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh II (vol. 14)
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