Trory parish

CountyFermanagh
Location

Barony: Tirkennedy

Diocese: Clogher

Poor law unions: Enniskillen, Irvinestown (Lowtherstown)

Probate registry: Armagh

County districts: Enniskillen No. 1 (Ballycassidy, Enniskillen Rural), Irvinestown No. 1 (Rockfield or Killadeas)

Places: Ballycassidy, Killadeas

Graveyards

Killadeas CI

Trory CI

Inscriptions from both burial grounds published by David R. Elliott, Kinfolk Finders

Church of Ireland Records

Killadeas: baptisms, 1880-1974; marriages, 1883-1935; burials, 1888-1986 (MIC1/283)

Trory: baptisms, 1779, 1784 and 1796-1922; marriages, 1779, 1799, 1801-32 and 1835-1905; burials, 1802-32 and 1835-1915 (MIC1/94-95; CR1/19) 

Roman Catholic RecordsIrvinestown (Devenish, Whitehill/Whitehall): baptisms, 1846-81; marriages, 1851-82 (NLI, https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0313)
Presbyterian Records 
Methodist RecordsLaragh: see Enniskillen and Ballinamallard for baptisms and Enniskillen for marriages; minutes of quarterly meetings, 1877-93; circuit stewards’ book, 1879-94; membership registers, 1881-1900 (MIC1E/15, 23)
Other Church Records 
Tithe RecordsTithe applotment book, 1825 (FIN/5/A/265)
Vestry recordsTrory: vestry minutes, 1778–1959 (MIC1/94-95)
Landed estates

Archdale estate

Clogher bishopric estate

Huntingdon estate

School Records

Ballycassidy National/PE: male register, 1916–33; female register, 1910–33  (SCH/1133)

Shanmullagh PE: roll books, 1933–43 (SCH/1135)

Local government 
Law and order 
Business records 
Valuation records

Townland Valuation: VAL/1/B/420

Tenement Valuation: VAL/2/B/4/23C, /26

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 Relief 
Family papers 
19thC Census 
Census 
Census subsFL
Societies, etc 
Printed Sources 
PublicationsJ.A.M. McNutt, The Story of Trory (1978)
Other sourcesNames of male Protestants aged 17 and over, 1785 (T808/15259)
Ordnance Survey MemoirsOSM, County Fermanagh II (vol. 14)
NotesThis parish was created out of Devenish c. 1779.