Templecarn parish

CountyFermanagh
Location

Counties: Donegal, Fermanagh

Baronies: Tirhugh (Donegal portion), Lurg (Fermanagh portion)

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law unions: Donegal, Irvinestown (Lowtherstown)

Probate registry: Armagh, Londonderry

County districts: Donegal (Donegal portion), Irvinestown No. 1 (Fermanagh portion)

Place: Pettigo

Graveyards

Caldragh

Carn Old

Lettercran RC

Muckross CI

Pettigo RC

Templecarn CI

Church of Ireland Records

Muckross: baptisms, 1868-1908 destroyed in 1922; marriages, 1869-1930; burials, 1892­-1985 (MIC1/216) 

Templecarn: baptisms, 1825-1931, 1936; marriages, 1825-1906; burials, 1825- 1985 (MIC1/217)

Roman Catholic RecordsCarn (Devenish West, Belleek and Pettigo): baptisms, 1851-81; marriages, 1836-81 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0290)
Presbyterian Records 
Methodist Records 
Other Church Records 
Tithe RecordsTithe applotment book (MIC442/9)
Vestry recordsTemplecarn CI: vestry minutes from 1777 onwards in local custody
Landed estates

Caldwell estate

Clogher bishopric estate

Lenox estate

Leslie estate

Schools 
School RecordsLetter National/PE/PS: male and female registers, 1865–1953 (SCH/132)
Local government 
Law and orderPrinted register of spirit licences in County Fermanagh, which includes details for the Petty Sessions District of Pettigo, 1892–1921 (HA/1/72/K/1)
Business records 
Valuation records

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/421A-B (Fermanagh portion)

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/14 (Fermanagh portion)

Board of Guardians

Donegal Union records prior to 1900 were destroyed in a fire.

 

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 Relief 
Family papers 
19thC Census 
Census 
Census subsHMR, FL
Societies, etc 
Printed SourcesWilliam Shaw Mason, A Statistical Account, or, Parochial Survey of Ireland, vol. 1 (1814)
Publications

P. O Gallachair, The Parish of Carn (n.d.)

M.L. Thompson, ‘The Meeting-House Beside the Big Bush’: A History of Pettigo Presbyterian Church (2000)

Other sourcesCollecting book for the poor rate in the electoral division of Pettigo, 1870 (NLI, MS 14,230)
Ordnance Survey MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh II (vol. 14)
Notes