Kinawley parish

CountyFermanagh
Location

Baronies: Tullyhaw (Cavan portion), Clanawley, Knockninny (Fermanagh portion)

Diocese: Kilmore

Poor law unions: Enniskillen, Lisnaskea

Probate registry: Cavan, Armagh

County districts: Enniskillen No. 1, Lisnaskea (Fermanagh portion)

Places: Aghalane, Derrylin, Swanlinbar, Teemore

Graveyards

Callowhill

Crom CI

Kinawley (Derrylin) CI

Derrylin RC

Killaghaduff

Kinawley Old

Teemore RC

Church of Ireland Records

Kinawley: baptisms, 1761-63, 1768-83 and 1794­1961; marriages, 1761-63 and 1768­1913; burials, 1768-1972; publication of banns, 1823-27 (MIC1/76; CR1/62)

Swanlinbar : baptisms, 1798-1883; marriages, 1798­1895; burials, 1799-1812, 1822-26 and 1863-83 (MIC1/212)

Crom (Trinity, later Holy Trinity): baptisms, 1842-1972; marriages, 1845­1935; burials, 1869 and 1884-1964 (CR1/63)

Roman Catholic Records

Glangevlin: baptisms, 1867-81; marriages, 1867-81 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0834) 

Kinawley (Swanlinbar): baptisms, 1835-81; marriages, 1835-57; burials, 1853-57 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0845) 

Knockninny: baptisms, 1855-70; marriages, 1855-70 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0828)

Presbyterian Records 
Methodist RecordsSwanlinbar: baptisms, 1879-1955; marriages, 1865­1946 (MIC1E/11-12)
Other Church Records 
Tithe RecordsOnly townland names and amounts
Vestry recordsKinawley: vestry minutes with accounts, 1775–1871 (MIC1/76B/1)
Landed estates

Crofton estate

Enniskillen estate

Erne estate

School records

Aughakillymaude National: male register, 1864–89 (SCH/4, see also MIC/15H/135)

Cornaleck National: male register, 1865–88 (SCH/23, see also MIC/15H/140)

Derrymacausey National/PE: register, 1844–54 (SCH/528)

Teemore National/PE/PS: male and female registers, 1875–1953 (SCH/154)

Local government 
Law and orderPrinted register of spirit licences in County Fermanagh, which includes details for the Petty Sessions District of Derrylin, 1892–1921 (HA/1/72/K/1)
Business recordsAccount book probably kept by a general merchant, Derrylin, 1900–03 (D1370/1; MIC634/1)
Valuation records

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/44, /413 (Fermanagh portion)

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/4A-B, /8A-E (Fermanagh portion)

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 Census1821 census (NAI; listed under multiple variants of Kinawley; Cavan portion of parish only); see also https://cavantownlands.ie/census-of-1821 
Census 
Census subsRelC (Protestants and Catholics), FL
Societies, etc 
Printed Sources 
Publications

Dan Gallogly, ‘Swanlinbar and its ironworks from the Registry of Deeds’, Breifne, vol. 21 (1982)

Joseph McKiernan, By Claddagh’s Banks: A History of Swanlinbar and District from Earliest Times (2000)

Other sources 
Ordnance Survey MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh I (vol. 4)
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