Where is Fair Hill in County Galway?

[hallmark]

Reckon Galway City....

Informant Julia (x) Noone, present at Birth, Fair Hill on record above too!!

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1877/02994/2097316.pdf

[Deesider]

Hi Hallmark,
Thanks  for your last message.
I can confirm that the link you have specified, is to the website from which I obtained the original information.

Galway Town is where I expected the birth to have taken place.
My concern is of the 10 birth on the page 5 appear to be at Fair Hill.
So If Fair Hill is a Street in Galway Town there were a lot of births in that Street

As for the Townland of Fairhill, it appears to be 26 miles from Galway Town and 17 miles from Tuam and therefore I would have thought that the Townland of Fairhill is more likely to be in the Tuam Registration District rather than Galway Registretion District.

I will go with your statement that FairHill is a Street in Galway Town.
Thanks for your help

[hallmark]

Posting links always helps, as in additional information in this case....

[hallmark]

Districts of Galway No. 1, Galway No. 2, Moycullen and Oranmore shall be amalgamated

Moycullen..  http://www.logainm.ie/en/1413947?s=Moycullen

http://www.logainm.ie/en/s?txt=Oranmore&str=on    Oranmore

So, Galway City !

[Bairbre]

There's Fair Hill Rd in the Cladagh, which is south west part of Galway city!

[Deesider]

Hi Bairbre,
Many thanks to your reply to my original message

I am lookimg at a page of 10 birth registrations; six of them refer to the place of Fair Hill, and 2 of them refer to the place of Claddagh spelt with a 'dd'.

In your reply you say that Fair Hill Road is 'in the Cladagh'. Is Cladagh a district of modern day Galway City and in the past (say 1877) would  Cladagh have been a separate place?

I see you are a new member to Rootschat so welcome to the message board

Regards
The Wirral Way

[Bairbre]

Sorry, it is "Claddagh". While it was referred to as the Claddagh Village in the past I know it was part of Galway city in 1840. This link has a picture of Fairhill Rd and a list of residents from about 1895. http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/54646/lower-fairhill-road-c1895

Bairbre

[aghadowey]

If you google "claddagh village galway city" lots of bits about Claddagh come up, Here are just a few-
http://www.claddaghtale.com/claddagh.html
http://irishpost.co.uk/the-fascinating-story-of-galways-lost-community-of-claddagh/
https://www.claddaghdesign.com/ireland/claddagh-town-behind-ring/

Although lots of the sites are about the famous Claddagh Ring some of them have lovely old photos of the area-
http://lawrencecollection.com/photo/claddagh-village/
http://www.rareirishstuff.com/galway-/the-claddagh-claddagh-village-galway-ireland-1915.1650.html
http://nuigarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/photographs-of-claddagh-village-1939.html

[Deesider]

Hi Bairbre & aghadowey,

Many thanks for the information about about Claddagh, it is very helpful to get an understanding of the geography of the place one is undertaking family history research.

Thanks for your help
The Wirral Way