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Drumherriff townland is currently shown as being within Murhan/Drumshanbo parish, but I see church records from the 1800s indicating that many of its residents were baptized in Kiltoghert (to be more exact: their baptismal records are included in the Kiltoghert, not Murhan, records). Have the parish boundaries been changed and, if so, where can one find information about those changes over time?

Barry

Monday 2nd Jan 2023, 07:43AM

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  • Barry: From reviewing the 1837 Lewis Topographical Dictionary for Kiltoghert parish, it looks like that Murhan/Drumshanbo had a chapel but it was part of the RC parish of Kiltoghert. It appears Murhan/Drumshanbo became an independent parish in 1861 or therabouts https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0163 Baptisms performed at Murhan pre-1861 would have been shown in Kiltoghert RC parish. See below for the writeup from 1837. Note that Murhan is shown as Kiltoghert/Murhan. Roger McDonnell KILTOGHART, a parish, in the barony and county of LEITRIM, and province of CONNAUGHT ; containing, with part of the post-town of Carrick-on-Shannon, and the villages of Drumshambo, Leitrim, and Jamestown (which are separately described), 16,434 inhabitants. It comprises 20,669 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £11,942 per annum: the land is chiefly under tillage, and there is mnch bog and mountain, also quarries of freestone and limestone. Part of the mountain Shieve-an-irin and several small lakes are in this parish, in which rise the hills of Sheemore, said to contain caves of considerable depth. The principal seats are Jamestown Lodge, the residence of F. O'Beirne, Esq. ; Port, of J. H. Peyton, Esq. ; Lismore Lodge, of the Very Rev. Dr. Slevin, V.G. ; Caldra Lodge, of G. McDermott, Esq. ; Castlecarrow, of C. R. Peyton, Esq. ; Newbrook, of F. Keon, Esq. ; and Keon brook, of J. D. Brady, Esq. At Drumhearny extensive plantations have been laid out by P. Latouche, Esq. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ardagh, and in the patronage of the Bishop ; the tithes amount to £601. The glebe-house was erected by a gift of £100 and a loan of £1050 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1819, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £174 for its repair: the glebe comprises 200 acres. There is a church at Carrick-on-Shannon, and one in Drumshambo. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms two unions or districts, one called Kiltoghart and Gowel, which has chapels at Carrick-on-Shannon, Jamestown, and Gowel ; the other called Kiltoghart-Murhane, which has a chapel at Murhane. There are a Primitive and Wesleyan Methodist meeting-house at Carrick-on-Shannon, and a Wesleyan Methodist meeting-house at Drumshambo. There are twelve public schools, to one of which Mr. P. Latouche allows a house and three acres of land, besides subscribing £15 annually ; and to another Lord Duncannon subscribes £5. 5. About 1000 children are educated in these schools, and about 100 in three private schools. At Port are the remains of a monastery, which was converted into a castle to command the ford across the Shannon.

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    Monday 2nd Jan 2023, 04:05PM

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