Sorry, Murray. My mind got ahead of my fingers or something. There were no Bells there either. John -----Original Message----- From: scotch-irish-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:scotch-irish-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Murray Bell Sent: November-19-11 6:11 PM To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [S-I] Tithe Applotment Books John Thank you very much for the info. I will most likely spend the $30 bucks to purchase volume 40. I like that it also includes Cavan which is another county of interest to me. You mentioned that there were no Elliotts mentioned in Donaghmoyne index. Were there any Bells? again, thanks very much murray On Nov 19, 2011, at 8:17 AM, John Carey wrote: > Murray > > I checked out Donaghmoyne parish in the Index to the Ordnance Survey > Memoirs of Ireland. These Memoirs were the reports written on each > parish during the Ordnance Survey in the 18030s. They were written to accompany the 6 " > maps but were not published at the time. The Memoirs have been > collected and comprise 40 volumes. The index points to the volume in > which a parish is to be found. Sometimes individuals like teachers > and ministers are mentioned in a parish memoir along with local > gentry. The memoirs are inconsistent since they were written by > different people but a memoir on a parish usually gives a list of > individual townlands at that time, a description of their size, etc. > A Memoir usually list all the churches and meeting houses in each parish, including when there were groups that were > meeting in someone's house. In a recent lookup, I found a townland spelt 4 > different ways in the same Memoir so two spellings for Feegavla is not > very surprising. > > The index does not mention any Elliotts in Donaghmoyne. However, you > will find the description of Donaghmoyne in Memoirs volume 40. From > the references in the index, it appears that the Donaghmoyne memoir > probably spans at least 30 pages. I own a couple of Memoirs volumes > but not that one so I cannot look up the actual description. I was > able to purchase my volumes online some years ago and I assume that you can still do that. > Unfortunately, I don't remember now who I purchased them from but it > should be simple enough to Google Memoirs of Ireland and track them > down and order volume 40. > > Cheers > > John