What PLU do these townlands belong to?- completed

[BCullen]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to trace all people named Cullen and Cullinan that are listed in the Civil Registration indexes (starting 1864) as being born, married, or died, in "Clogher" or "Omagh". As I understand it, that refers to the Poor Law Union which is the same as Superintendent Registrar's District.

So far so good. Now I am looking through the census for 1901 for all townlands that are in Omagh Poor Law Union. I found these townlands at http://www.thecore.com/seanruad
But I have found 24 townlands that are listed in the census as belonging to Omagh PLU, but according to the Sean Ruad database, they are in Gortin.

Does anyone know which is correct? Or were the the boundary of the PLUs changed? Or am I confused?

Thanks,

Bernie Cullen

Tyrone Cullinan and Cullen: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tullycorker/

The townlands in question are:
Moyle D.E.D. 91/1-18 Townlands: Altdoghal, Bloomry, Carnaveagh, Crosh, Croshballinree, Gallan Lower, Gallan Upper, Glenknock or Cloghogle, Killymore, Legnabraid, Lisnafin, Lisnatunny Glebe, Moyle Glebe, Pubble, Sessagh of Gallan, Shannony East, Strahulter, Straletterdallan.
Trinamadan D.E.D. 92/1-6 Townlands: Culvacullion, Garvagh, Gorticashel Lower, Gorticashel Upper, Meenadoo, Tinamadan.

[Christopher]

Hello Bernie,

Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) is a great site if you are having problems finding Irish townlands ... it can help identify townlands which may not be listed in any of the townland directories such as the http://www.thecore.com/seanruad IreAtlas website. Use the 1837 Dictionary of Samuel Lewis in conjunction with Sean Ruad's IreAtlas as this may assist in finding that elusive townland. www.from-ireland.net/lewis/allcounties.htm

Christopher

[BCullen]

Hello Christopher,

Thanks very much for your reply and for reminding me to follow up on my original query. I received a reply on the rootsweb message boards explaining that the Gortin Poor Law Union was dissolved sometime around 1880, part of it joining the Omagh PLU and part joining the Strabane PLU.

I have drawn a crude map explaining the situation for Omagh PLU:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tullycorker/omaghplu.jpg

Here is the answer to my question on Rootsweb:
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.britisles.ireland.tyr.general/6418.2/mb.ashx

I hope this is helpful to someone!

Bernie

[kintree]

The SeanRuad database is intended to list townlands in 1851, not 1901.

See http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/index.shtml

Adrian