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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Cork => Topic started by: moirae56 on Wednesday 10 July 13 16:32 BST (UK)
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Has anyone heard of this place? Birthplace of my grandfather 1876. According to records "Births registered in the district of Boherboy".
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Possibly the townland of Knocknamohalagh in the civil parish of Aghadown and Poor Law Union of Skibbereen.
Any other opinions?
Edited to add: Doesn't seem to fit too well with the Boherboy (sub district within Kanturk) registration... Knocknamohalagh is well south.
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Second (and now preferred) guess is the townland of Knocknamucklagh, civil parish of Knocktemple, poor law union of Kanturk.
Now that's a lot closer!
Edited to add: Yep, I'm sticking with this for the moment! :)
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One of the Sub-Districts of Kanturk is named Boherboy, mostly covers sections of Kilmeen and Drumtarriff civil parishes, no mention that I see in the listing I have of Knocktemple civil parish being included, but the boundary could have altered slightly over the years.
There are a few other 'Knock' townlands in the district, but no good other close match to Knocknamogologh though. Knockmanagh, Knocknacurring (east & west), Knocknacurragh, Knocknadrahan, Knocknavoreen, Knockeendallane, Knocknamannagh (commons, east & west), and a few other shorted townland names that dont look right..
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here is the townland on the c1837 OSI map : Knocknamucklagh (http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,523179,603622,6,7)
by my reading of the map it's in Kilmeen civil parish, so maybe a mistake on the 1851 townland index ?
p.s. the townland is located abt 5km west of the town of Boherboy
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checked my copy of the townland index, and the civil parish for Knocknamucklagh is actually 'Kilmeen', so looks like a typo on SeanRuad.
Think maybe the Knocktemple mistake came from misreading of the entry a couple of lines above for one of the Knocknamuck townlands which also happens to be in Kanturk poor law union, and the same barony (Duhallow) as Knocknamucklagh