Tyrone Townland- completed

[Terry M.]

Some . . . . First of all, I doubt it is actually "Drim..." - more likely "Drum..." which means ridge or long hill in Irish. There are many townlands that start with "Drum" - I don't know of any that start with "Drim." Also, it could be a town, townland or civil parish - they were not consistant on what they gave as an address.

http://www.thecore.com/seanruad/cgi-bin/iresrch

The above is a link to IreAtlas showing all the townlands in Tyrone that begin with "Drum." If you can't get to it via this, just go into IreAtlas and put in Drum in the townland space and set it for "Beginning of word."

Note there is a Drumquin Town in both Longfield East and Longfield West, and a Drumquin townland in Longfield West. One of those might be a good bet. There is also a Drumreagh and other townlands that might be confused with the sound of Drimquay.

If everything else fails, are you familiar with the Ulster Historical Foundation and possibly a member? They have a database that I believe has sub-denominational names in it. These are small parts of townlands. For example, some of my ancestors came from Drumcrow townland in Killyman. A sub-denominational name for part of that townland is Derrybury Drumcrow. I am not a member and have not had a look at the database as yet (so I could be wrong), but I have wondered about it. Having access to sub-denominational names could make Irish research much easier.

Good luck!

Terry

[wildgoose]

Many thanks for the informative reply

[kintree]

Good response from Terry M. (However, Irish droim, while usually anglicised drum, could easily be heard as drim.)

I would go for Drumkee rather than Drumquin, myself.

Adrian

[wildgoose]

That sounds very plausible

[Terry M.]

No McKenna at least in Drumkee in GV, 1901 and 1911 Census. (My father was born there.)

[wildgoose]

Many thanks but I'm not after McKENNAs this time.  The Tryone connection comes from the birth certificate below

Birth cert. No.1739
Ann GOURLAY
b.1866, Sep 22nd, 89 Gallowgate, High Church, Glasgow
f.James GOURLAY, Tailor journeyman.
m.Bridget GOURLAY, ms MARLOW
marr.1846 Jun, Drumquay, Co. Tyrone, Ireland
inf.James GOURLAY, his X mark, father
reg.1866, Sep 25th, Glasgow