Monday, August 2, 2021

Cloonreliagh

 Wendy DeRiancho found this on facebook and forwarded to me:


If you are on facebook, this is a good group to follow:

https://www.facebook.com/heritagewilliamstown


Also, spotted this on google maps while trying to find the field above:


In the area of "you can't beat local knowledge", Finola mentioned that the family of Peter Baggot of Foxboro in the above pic is originally from Cloonreliagh. Sure enough, the Bagots are listed in the 1857 Griffith's Evaluation:


James Bagot also has land in neighboring Foxboro

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This is right after the famine has ended. The Bagot land is 1a on the map of Cloonreliagh, 5a for the map for Foxboro, which is just south and across the townland border from 1a:


This corresponds to the farm on the left below, just west of the main 'triangle' that is the middle of Cloonreliagh:

If you are in the area and trying to find the site of the famine memorial mentioned at top, this is the likely place.


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