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    1. [LONGFORD~] Drumlish change
    2. Rachel & Bob Smith
    3. This mentions a re-structuring of parish boundaries of Drumlish and Killoe in Co. Longford. Does anyone know more about the boundaries in the mid 1800's vs. today? Thanks, Agnes "David Leahy's Survivors of the Great Famine (Index to Griffiths Valuation, about 1854) lists a Thomas Bernard Gorman at Lisnageeragh which is in Mostrim Parish. But most of the other Gormans he listed were in Killoe Ph. townlands. The village of Drumlish is near the northwest corner of County Longford, near the boundary of county Leitrim. I think this was formerly part of Killoe Parish, and that there is now a Drumlish Ph. Regarding locations around 1860, there were dislocations and evictions due to the famine. It might be this family was based in Killoe (now Drumlish?) and members who had to seek their fortune elsewhere, at least for a time, came back to the their ancestral church for such special occasions as christenings. It is really a problem that there were both Catholic and Protestant parish names for the same places, which furthermore have been reorganized as civil parishes and often renamed. How lovely if somebody knows a website which has maps showing locations of these historic parishes in relation to each other and to a modern map of the county. Fellow searchers, if you know of such a site, please let us know.

    11/08/2000 03:00:59