Leitrim is my Dads area, and the Hickeys and Donahoes in our family tree are from Shangarry and Carramore, beside or possibly in Tynagh. The early parish book lists have 10 or twelve adults from each family in the parish at the same time it seems, and the IE site shows that as well. The famine really did empty that part of East Galway, as areas such as Marble Hill, the Burkes HQ, and Lord Clonbrocks Estates closed down, and by 1911 census only a few of each family were still working their land. Also noticed the people not born during the industrial age, say from 1860's and prior, seemed to live longer than the those after 1870's. At least in most of my 6 families i have researched. Probably a Thesis or three in those records, and the records for Tynagh and Letrim have gaps from 1839 to 1855, Famine, or in Irish, An Gortan More, years mostly. Not sure why the records are missing, big gap for my research. And we were never allowed to say the P word before Famine growing up in Canada, there was quite a lot of other food available.
