Granlahan & Ballintober cemeteries

The site irishnative.com has pics of the Granlahan graveyard.

This one is labeled "Dempsey Family Cloonreliagh":

We're hoping to get our woman on the scene (well, kinda sorta nearby) to get us a better picture. Hopefully we can make out more details. The close up of the photos are blurred.

http://irishnative.com/cemeteries-2/granlahan/#bwg50/18192

This one is labeled "Martin Grady Grange". Great-grandfather Thomas had an older brother Martin (born 1848). It is *possible* this is him.

http://irishnative.com/cemeteries-2/granlahan/#bwg50/18100

6/9/2022 update:

Note that the Kiltullagh parish lists two graveyards in Granlahan. I'm not sure where the second one is, but this one is directly St Patrick's Church, just after the junction with the L1602 road:

Based on a tip from Kath I looked for Thomas Harte in the Ballintober graveyard. He is there, along with Bridget O'Grady Harte:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120277924/thomas-harte

https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2013/316/120277924_138439685128.jpg

Looks like: "Thomas Harte. Died Dec 29, 1937. Age 53 years. His Wife Bridget. Died Aug 18, 1975"

Mary Ellen Grady

This rootsireland.ie subscription has paid off, as we finally have birth of Harry and now Mary Ellen Grady, Aunt Nellie.

Some confusion in finding her may be that the townland is listed incorrectly. In his case, there is no townland Derryligree.

Note that Nellie is honest with her birth year, 1886, whereas her sister Kitty claimed to be born in 1888 but was actually born in 1885.

Usually there's a link to the actual baptism, but not in this case. It would be interesting to see why it is record as 'Mary Eleanor' and then corrected below to 'Mary Ellen'.

Sponsor Thomas Dempsey could be Mariah's brother. He moves to the US with most of his siblings before moving back to Ireland (and what becomes of him?). While in the US, he pays for the plot in Brooklyn for his mother Catherine Jennings Dempsey.

Henry/Harry Grady birth 1881

Finally found baptism for Henry/Harry Grady (Grandfather Martin's brother):

"Ng" is "not given".

Sponsor Martin Dempsey is likely Mariah's brother. He moves with the family to Brooklyn and his daughter Annie married Jerome Nash.

Margaret Dempsey may be Mariah's first cousin, daughter of her uncle Thomas, born 1865. She later emigrates to the US and marries James Skelly in Brooklyn. 

Cloonreliagh, etc & pics

We have a lot of pics of the Derreenteige house, the house that Thomas O'Grady and Mariah Dempsey owned (and Finola's family is hoping to restore).

We also have some pics of the townland of Cloonreliagh, but I'm not sure which pic goes where. For example, on google maps:

Near the apex of the triangle on the lower right is where most of the houses in Cloonreliagh are clustered. Some of the pics we have are in that cluster of houses, but which is which?

On the entrance to that lane, you can make out the remains of this house in the trees:

Based on Griffith's map, that would have been part of 3b, which would have been Thomas Dempsey's land:

Are there other houses today on that land? Do we have those pics already?

Note also that Bernard's land is noted as 3a, but is not labelled on the map (why?)

Back to Derreentighe for a bit ... Michael Grady's land on Griffith's is plot 6a:

[Michael is great-great grandfather, father of great grandfather Thomas]

Based on google maps, this is the view of plot 6a from the R361 road:

Michael's plot would have extended into the trees in center ... and his house to the left, close to the road (closer to the 'a' by the '6' on that map ... is there any structure there? The house to the right would have been 5a on the map: Peter Cummins' house, Michael's landlord.

The 'other' Thomas Dempsey in Moorfield is plot #23 here (one of the Thomas's is Bernard's brother, one a cousin ... which?):

Again based on google maps, the turnoff for that land is just past the house on the L2022 road:

This is just before the Moorfield Cemetery:

These were things I was going to research if I went in April !