The Civil Parishes of Co. Cavan
Civil Parishes of Cavan – I wonder, how many know the names of civil parishes in Cavan?
Cavan County has, or had 36 civil parishes. She has 34 Roman Catholic Parishes. She had 8 Poor Law Unions (these later became Civil Registration Districts). For Co. Cavan the Church of Ireland Representative Body Library in Dublin has 39 sets of parish .
Civil Parishes of Co. Cavan
1. Annageliff
2. Annagh
3. Bailieborough
4. Ballintemple
5. Ballymachugh
6. Castlerahan
7. Castleterra
8. Crosserlough
9. Denn
10. Drumgoon
11. Drumlane
12. Drumlumman
13. Drumreilly
14. Drung
15. Enniskeen
16. Kilbride
17. Kildallen
18. Kildrumsherdan
19. Killashandra
20. Killinagh
21. Killinkere
22. Kilmore
23. Kinawley
24. Knockbride
25. Larah
26. Lavey
27. Loughan or Castlekeeran
28. Lurgan
29. Moybolgue
30. Mullagh
31. Munterconnaught
32. Scrabby
33. Shercock
34. Templeport
35. Tomregan
36. Urney
The ‘civil’ parish and the Roman Catholic parish are NOT the same group of townlands They are separate entities in relation to genealogical research. Catholics can or could live in one civil parish and be members of a relgious parish with a different name. Please consult the list of Roman Catholic parishes of Co. Carlow
Please remember some of these parish spellings might not be exactly as they are today.
‘Search Page’ the IrlAtlas Townland Search form. When you go to this page you will find a form into which you place names and then learn more about these places at the time of the 1851 census of Ireland. You do not have to fill out every column of the form.
The web page to which you are being directed above is hosted by the Leitrim Roscommon Genealogy web site. The book from which the list of placenames was created was based on the townlands listed in the Irish 1851 census and a man who we all knew as John Broderick a.k.a. Sean Ruad (R.I.P.) was responsible for having the whole book typed up by helpful individuals over a number of years. This book the ‘General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes & Baronies of Ireland’, which was printed by Alexander Thom & Co. of Dublin, gives you the size of a townland, the barony that the townland was in, the name of the civil parish, and the name of the Poor Law Union.
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