Sunday, January 9, 2022

Thomas Dempseys, etc

Griffith's for neighboring townland of Moorfield (Morefield, Coarsefield) from 1857:

http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/z/zoomifyDynamicViewer.php?file=114094&path=./pix/114/&rs=35&showpage=1&mysession=2793975758654&width=&height=



Thomas Dempsey has plot #23. I included Fenerty plot #18 as likely his is related to Thomas's wife Mary. Also included Flanagan, #30, as they are likely related to John Dempsey's wife. 

Map:

http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/single_layer/i8.php?lat=&longt=&dum=0&sheet=1&mysession=2793975758654&info=&place=&county=GALWAY&placename=MOORFIELD&parish=TEMPLETOGHER&country=Ireland&union=&barony=BALLYMOE



#23 is the triangle in dead center on the map. The townland of Farm is to the lower right. Derreenteige is to the upper left. 

This info on Moorfield because .... Wendy has been looking through the DNA matches ... it appears that the Thomas Dempsey of Moorfield is a closer genetic relation than the Thomas Dempsey of Cloonreliagh. So instead of TD/Moorfield being a distant cousin, TD/Cloonreliagh is the distant cousin.

TD/Moorfield is likely brother to great-great grandfather Bernard.

So, when Martin O'Grady goes to stay with Anne Dempsey Reynolds at 139 Sullivan Street, he would have been going to stay with his aunt (his mother Mariah's first cousin).


Note: the Moorfield graveyard is the circular formation in the lower center of the map (by 25a/27a).




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