West Galway Family history has some records before 1850 I have found some of my Long family there but the church my lot used was one which had its roof blown off with the big wind.The records have Thomas John Nagle baptised 1827 and a marriage of a Martin 1844. Griffiths valuation on the same site lists 11 men with this surname.  I had looked for this name as we were trying to trace the birth place of a Benjamin Nagle who fought in the Charge of the Light brigade in 1854. All our local society in Halifax West Yorkshire knows about him, is that he was a native Irish man, and became permanent Sergeant in the West Yorks Yeomanry Cavalry regiment. He must have become very well known in the town as he was given a civic funeral in 1871 when he died at the age of 45. 1000 mourners attended the funeral and although we know where he was buried the grave was unmarked and the society would like to set up some sort of memorial.

Would the West Galway Center have any records for the Gort area? East Galway had nothing that applied to my family even though that was where they lived.