Magheracross parish

CountyFermanagh
Location

Counties: Fermanagh and Tyrone

Baronies: Lurg, Tirkennedy (Fermanagh portion), Omagh (Tyrone portion)

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law unions: Enniskillen, Irvinestown (Lowtherstown)

Probate registry: Armagh, Londonderry

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

Place: Ballinamallard

Graveyards

Coa RC

Magheracross CI (inscriptions published by David R. Elliott)

Magheracross Old (inscriptions published by David R. Elliott)

Sydare Cemetery (inscriptions published by David R. Elliott)

Church of Ireland RecordsMagheracross: baptisms, 1800-40 and 1846-91; marriages, 1800-1919; burials, 1800­-1979 (MIC583/4; MIC1/78; CR1/20)
Roman Catholic RecordsIrvinestown (Whitehill/Whitehall): baptisms, 1846-81; marriages, 1851-82 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0313)
Presbyterian Records 
Methodist Records

Ballinamallard: baptisms, 1829-1919; marriages, 1882­ 1937; membership rolls,1881­ 92 and 1898-1900; circuit stewards’ book, 1879-94 (MIC1E/23, 37)

Knockmanoul: baptisms, 1879-1919; membership rolls, 1881-1900; circuit stewards’ book, 1879-94 (MIC1E/15, 23)

Other Church Records 
Tithe RecordsTithe applotment book, 1829 (FIN/5/A/213)
Vestry recordsMagheracross: vestry minutes, 1847-1966 (CR1/20/D, MIC1/78)
Landed estatesClogher bishopric estate; Conolly estate; Lendrum estate; Mervyn estate
School Records

Ballinamallard National/PE: male register, 1925–58; female register, 1925–60; roll books, 1914–27 (SCH/1118)

Coa National/PE/PS: male registers, 1865–1960; female registers, 1868–1958 (SCH/1446)

Grove National/PE/PS: male register, 1863–1945 (SCH/235)

Magheracross National/PE: male register, 1900–30; female register, 1900–57 (SCH/1117)

Sydare National/PE: male register, 1866–1932; female register, 1868–1932 (SCH/1134)

Local government 
Law and order 
Business records 
Valuation records

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/417, /436 (Fermanagh portion)

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/25A-B (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)

 

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 ReliefPapers of the Ballinamallard Relief Committee, including subscription list, 1847 – NAI, RLFC/3/2/10/23
Family papers 
19thC Census 
Census 
Census subsHMR, FL
Societies, etc 
Printed Sources 
PublicationsBallinamallard: A Place of Importance (2005)
Other sources 
Ordnance Survey MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh II (vol. 14)
Notes