Good day Could someone please advise me which Roman Catholic church would service this area, whether it still exists, etc. And am I correct in describing it thus: Barony Omagh, Civil Parish Clogherny, Townland Legacurry. I'm making an assumption from Griffiths and some other evidence that my ancestor Thomas FITZPATRICK was born there. Thanks Bryan ChCh, NZ My family history at http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~bryannp/parrott/index.htm

Hi Bryan, According to William O'Kane, ed., HEATHER PEAT AND STONE: THE PARISHES AND TOWNLANDS OF TYRONE (Dungannon: Irish World, 1992) -- which I highly recommend for anyone doing a significant amount of Tyrone research -- there are three townlands named Legacurry: 1) in Beragh Catholic parish and Clogherny civil parish, 2) in Cappagh Catholic parish and Cappagh civil parish, and 3) in Cookstown Catholic parish and Desertcreat civil parish The book has maps of the county (showing the relative location of all of the civil and Catholic parishes), and maps of each civil and Catholic parish, showing the relative locations of each townland in each parish. The civil parish maps are on our community website, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cotyroneireland/ index.html (click on "Maps"). Then click on "Parishes of Co. Tyrone" for the civil parish maps, and "Townlands of --- Parish" (insert the name of the civil parish you're interested in -- they're in alphabetical order) for the civil parish maps showing the relative locations of the townlands. The Catholic parishes named in ## 1 and 3 above are in the Catholic Archdiocese of Armagh; see the Archdiocese's site for maps at http:// www.armagharchdiocese.org/parishes . Click on the parish name to see pictures and locations of the churches in the parish, the contact info for the parish priest, the current size of the parish, and more. Catholic parish #2 (Cappagh) is in the Diocese of Derry; see the Diocese's site for maps at http://www.derrydiocese.org/ parishes.asp (click on "Killyclogher (Cappagh Parish)" to see photos, contact info, etc.). Cappagh parish also has its own site, separate from the listing on the diocesan site, at http:// www.cappaghparish.com/ . If you're looking for info on what RC church records survive for what years, click on the RC parish name on the map on the Irish Times / John Grenham site (the map is here -- http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/counties/rcmaps/ tyronerc.htm ). For more info on Irish genealogy (based on Grenham's second ed. of TRACING YOUR IRISH ANCESTORS), I find it easiest to navigate from the site map here -- http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/ sitemap.htm . As for how to describe the location, it depends what you mean. If you mean for address purposes, see the addresses on the sites I mention above. If you mean identifying the townland with the relevant (Catholic) ecclesiastical hierarchy, it would be townland name, parish name, deanery name, (arch)diocese name, ecclesiastical province name (in your case, the relevant Ecclesiastical Province is Armagh, whether it's the Diocese of Derry or the Archdiocese of Armagh). If you mean for record keeping / research purposes, it might depend on what kind of record you're looking for / citing -- e.g., BMDs would be townland, civil parish, maybe registration district, then Superintendent Registrar's District (formerly Poor Law Union), county; wills would be townland, civil parish, probate district. Baronies really only come into play in Old Age Pension files. If all you want is to keep track of the various categories into which your townland falls (without implying any relation between the categories, other than they all share your townland), as in the 1851 Townland Index (online at seanruad.com), then your breakdown is accurate, though there are missing pieces (like PLU). I hope that's helpful and not confusing! Claire K. On May 25, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Bryan wrote: > Could someone please advise me which Roman Catholic church would > service this area, whether it still exists, etc. > And am I correct in describing it thus: Barony Omagh, Civil Parish > Clogherny, Townland Legacurry. > ...

Hello Bryan. If you go to the marvellous seanruad site: http://www.seanruad.com/ and in the townland line write in Legacurry. (In case of slight spelling mismatches, I also changed the search option beside that to ("at Beginning of field"). Then go to the county line and click on Tyrone. Then hit "Submit". The result should be what I got here, being THREE different entries for the same townland name. As I am not familiar with the locations of each of these, I cannot understand if they all adjoin at one common boundary, or if they are three completely separate townlands. Perhaps someone else on the list might be able to clarify that for us. And I am unsure if the Clogherny parish one is indeed the one which you need, or if one of the others might be relevant instead or as well. Anyway, getting back to your question about how to describe it: I am hoping that the seanruad result might help you with that too. To my way of thinking, as you are proposing describing it from the larger entity to the smaller, then it would probably go: Province: Ulster; County: Tyrone; Barony: Omagh East; Parish: Clogherny. The Poor Law Union of Omagh, is an additional item of information which I do not feel fits neatly into that conglomeration. HTH: Ray in oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan" <bryannp@slingshot.co.nz> ... And am I correct in describing it thus: Barony Omagh, Civil Parish Clogherny, Townland Legacurry. My family history at http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~bryannp/parrott/index.htm