Aghanagh Parish

[maddymoss]

Can anyone clarify which county Aghanagh Parish belongs? Is it Sligo or Roscommon or does it straddle both counties?
Thanks,
Jim.

[John Hunter]

Aghanagh Civil parish and Aghanagh Catholic parish parish do not have the same boundaries.

Catholic records list Baptisms and Catholic church marriages; all other records are listed in Civil parishes.

The following list of townlands in Boyle and Kilbryan Civil parishes are in Aghanagh Catholic parish.
1 Aghacarra
2 Aghagowla
3 Aghnasurn
4 Annagh or Drumanlira
5 Bodorragha
6 Cornacarta
7 Derreenagan
8 Derreentunny
9 Derryvunny
10 Derrywanna
11 Drumdoe
12 Largan
13 Shanvoley
14 Smutternagh
15 Tintagh

The balance of Aghanagh Catholic Parish is in Co. Sligo.

All Aghanagh Civil parish is in Co. Sligo.

See also http://www.e.mctiernan.btinternet.co.uk/SligoMap

See also http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlsli/index.html

For Aghanagh Catholic Parish parochial records see LDS films:
(Aghanagh) 1803 - 1825 and 1803 - 1864 film 989739 items 1-2, various 1800 - 1881, 989740 items 1-4. Some records are listed on the LDS British Isles Vital Records set of CDs – available from www.familysearch.org/

For Aghanagh Civil parish records see County Sligo.

John

[maddymoss]

Thanks for the clarification on this parish. I have a Matthew McKeon born in Roscommon 1800. He moved to Scotland where he married Mary Welsh/Walsh, also from Roscommon at the pretty late age of 46 in 1846. His parents were Bartholomew McKeon and Bridget Mulhern. Attempts to find more about this family and their location in Roscommon turned up the marriage in 1819 of a Bartholomew McKeon and Honor Gallagher in Boyle, Roscommon, and in 1844, of Bartholomew McKeon and Mary Ann Mulhern in Aghanagh, Sligo. I don’t know how common these names were, or indeed if there is any connection, but their close proximity to each other has given me some sort of a lead.
Thanks
Jim