Friday, May 13, 2022

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 !


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