<Robert.Judge@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1137294701.406862.215540@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >I have just received the Civil War record of my second great > grandfather, Patrick Hoy (later changed to Hoey), from the U.S. > National Archives. The handwritten record is quite legible and it lists > him as from a town in Ireland that appears to be be spelled > "Cooldrummon". I have been told by another Hoy/Hoey researcher that > Sligo is a likely location. > > He was probably born between 1833 and 1835. I don't know when he left > Ireland but he is listed in Willimantic, CT on November 23, 1861, when > he enlisted. > > A Google search for "Cooldrummon" does not really produce anything. Was > there such a place in Sligo in the 1830's? I will appreciate advice. > It was in the civil parish of Drumcliff, Co Sligo. The Catholic baptismal records for Drumcliff start in 1841 and in 1865 for marriages. Brian

See: http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/Geneal/Sligo.htm Sligo Family Heritage Centre computerizing parish records Provides search service for a fee See http://tiara.ie/results.htm for customer comments http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/counties/connacht/index_sl.htm Sligo sources for genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlsli/index.html County Sligo GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/county/sligo.html County Sligo Fianna Page http://www.familia.org.uk/services/eire/sligo.html County Sligo Library Family History Resources