Thanks for posting this info Greg, I have been trying to gather any more info that I can find on the Wexford Poole's My wife and I are traveling to Ireland at the end of February. Thanks to the kind posting of someone from this Wexford list about Aer Lingus' winter deals. I hope to find some evidence that my Benjamin Jacob Poole is indeed part of those Wexford Poole's. Any research tips would be greatly appreciated. -Chris Moore ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Finnegan <finnegan@fas.harvard.edu> To: <WEXFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 5:21 PM Subject: [WEX] Re: Mt. Nebo > Re Dean Crowley's query: > > > >George's parents were George Patrick FINNIGAN, b. 1820 in Mountnebo, > >Gory, County Wexford, and Cornelia DANIELL, b. 1827 in Ireland. They > >married in Dublin in 1844. > > > My FINNEGAN ancestors were from Kiltullagh (SE of Athenry), Co. Galway, so > I can't help on that score. As my Wexford ancestors were Gorey & Garrybrit > Methodists and Irish Palatines (POOLE, JOHNSTON, WEBSTER), I can offer a > bit about Mt. Nebo. The natural feature of that name, 888 feet (not > metres) high, is WNW of Gorey; on the Ordnance Survey 1:126,720 Series map > no. 19, Carlow & Wexford, the peak is split by the vertical grid line "10", > and is about 1/3 of the grid north of horizontal "60". > > According to James G. Ryan's IRISH RECORDS: SOURCES FOR FAMILY AND LOCAL > HISTORY (Salt Lake City (Ancestry) and Dublin (FlyLeaf), 1997), the Civil > Parish in question is variously styled Kilnahue or Kilnehue or Lamogue, and > the corresponding RC Parish is Craanford/Rossminoge. Known records for > that parish begin in 1871, however. I may well be corrected by someone 'on > the ground' as to exact boundaries; Ryan's map isn't keyed to topography in > any detail. > > Mt. Nebo doesn't seem to be the name of any civil division. It is, > however, fairly notorious as the name of the estate of the magistrate > (John) Hunter Gowan and his nephew Ogle Gowan, the founder of the Orange > Order in Canada. The map on p. 15 of Daniel Gahan's THE PEOPLE'S RISING: > WEXFORD, 1798 (Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 1995) shows "Mt. Nebo House" at > the SE base of the mountain, in a position corresponding to symbols for > woodland or parkland on plate II of Musgrave's IRISH REBELLION OF 1798. My > own Gorey POOLEs were on Abel Ram's estates, not Gowan's, but were > intermarried with WEBSTERs and JOHNSTONs, of whom a couple (in Canada) were > named Ogle and one JOHNSTON male married a Hester GOWAN, so there's some > connection there somewhere. > > Ryan's book, by the way, which I acquired only 2 days ago, gives > information for which records survive for which dates on a parish by parish > basis; I haven't used it enough to say that the information is or isn't > sound, but it "looks and feels" quite reliable (wry smile.) > > Cheers/Greg > > p.s.: I receive WEXFORD-L in digest form and hence may have missed any > earlier replies to Mr. Crowley's query. > > > Gregory A. Finnegan, PhD > Associate Librarian for Public Services > and Head of Reference > Tozzer Library > Harvard University > 21 Divinity Avenue > Cambridge MA 02138-2089 > 617-495-2253 fax 617-496-2741 > gregory_finnegan@harvard.edu > > "...have mercy on us all --Presbyterians and Pagans alike -- for we are all > somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending." > MOBY-DICK, chapter 17. > > > > ==== WEXFORD Mailing List ==== > County Wexford on Rootsweb: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/county/wexford.html > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >