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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Tyrone => Topic started by: craigt on Saturday 19 February 11 02:47 GMT (UK)
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My wife's great-grandmother's place of birth is recorded as being 'Lough Mulharney (sic) County Tyrone' note it is
M u l h a r n e y. I have spent an afternoon looking up various atlases, gazetteers and maps and couldn't find anything approaching the spelling above, which admittedly may be incorrect, although one tome helpfully said that Tyrone had few large lakes but many small ones. I'm wondering whether anyone can tell me in which parish/townland this place is.
Regards, Craigt.
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County Tyrone
Barony Omagh East
Civil parish Drumragh
Townland Mullagharn
is the nearest I can see.
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Thank you very much for you quick reply. I just wondered a couple of things: 1. Do I have the spelling for the town correct -
Lough Mulharney, and 2. What is this place - a town, village, hamlet, & are you able to tell me anything more about it?
Regards,
Craigt.
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The place hallmark found is a townland called Mullagharn in the civil parish of Drumragh.
Townlands, Parishes, etc.
Counties are made up of parishes and parishes are made up of a group of townlands. If you are doing any research in Ireland these divisions become extremely important. For further information:
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/records/land/townland.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townland
http://www.ancestryireland.com/database.php?filename=townlands
To find townlands and parishes in Ireland: www.thecore.com/seanruad
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'Tis shame that I interject with so minimal knowledge but 'twould be worse to ignore or abjure all rational possibilities.
The choice of the townland was excellent as to the Mulharney supposed ending, emphasis on supposed, but it ignored the more certain first part "Lough" totally.
With a broad knowledge of how writings become warped, I will suggest as a better choice:
Loughmacrory, a small village in Tyrone, perhaps back then written with a more Gaelic spelling. Lough was certainly part of the original name (in that it is rare to be part of a birth place name and certainly should not have been added by mistake) and I have several Mac middle names slaughtered by the time they get to the last syllables, even in American family Bibles where it is hard to convince the family that whatever was written there might be misspelling due to any number of causes.
Additionally as one of many other misspelling, all my Wylie gals who went west from SC were more likely to become claimed to be of Wiley maiden name rather than stay Wylie gals, which they were from the moment upon a ship's roster they did appear.
Thus I claim to solve this puzzle it is best to find names that are like Loughmuhhhh... and that is the only one I have unearthed for County Tyrone.
With my 'umble respects.
KinMapper ;)
PS See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughmacrory
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Be assured Loughmacrory is not a final answer, just my best one in the time spent. There are six more other loughs in and about Lough Macrory and one of them may just be Lough Mullharney (or none sound like that name and then I will stick to my best answer until we find a Loughmuhhhh.... name.
It is not a bad place to claim, quite romantic a homeland as pictured at this local site:
http://loughmacroryinfo.com/lough.html
Your (as to almost all who read this) 30th cousin or closer,
Kinmapper ;)