GENUKI: Methodist Church Records, County Cavan

Cornet Walter Corry is recorded in the Book of Survey and Distribution as owning 16 townlands, amounting to 1,321 [Irish] acres, in the parish of Ematris, an estate which he had considerably enlarged by 1679. He built the town of Newtowncorry, later re-named Rockcorry,....the market and petty sessions house in the town was erected by ... [him] in the year 1805, and the Methodist meetinghouse under the patronage of the same landlord in 1807. ... In 1833, a statement of [his] title ... to ... the Rockcorry estate showed ownership of the towns and the lands of Corkeeran, Corvoo, Drumilla, Glenhorick, Corriskeerin, Boyagager, Drumlona, Aughafad, Lisnaspeenan, Corraghy, Cortober East, Cortober West, Lossett, Cremoyle, Dromore, Lislynachahan, Dundrennan, Feddan Glen, Aghadrumkeen, [and] Cribby or Newtowncorry with the customs and fairs and markets thereof.
[The Dartrey Papers PRONI D/3053/7]

Methodist Church Records

Directory of Microfilm and Indexed Records

Church Civil Parish	Baptisms	Marriages	Archive	Film #
All Ireland	1815-1840		PRONI	MIC/429/1
Bailieborough Bailieborough	1879-1970	1881-1952	CRC
Ballyconnell Tomregan		1880-1955	CRC
Ballyjamesduff Castlerahan	1880-1928 1880-1928	1886-1919	CRC PRONI	MIC/IE/50
Ballyjamesduff/Oldcastle/Castlerahan Castlerahan		1886-1917	CRC
Belturbet Annagh	1838-1861	1904-1929	CRC
Cavan Urney	1839-1851 1839-1851 1838-1842	1869-1954 1869-1923	CRC PRONI	MIC/IE/51 MIC/429/1/93
Cootehill/Ballybay Drumgoon	1846-1910		CRC
Cortober Ematris, Co. Monaghan		1882-1950	CRC
Drumgoon Drumgoon		1871-1955	CRC
Killeshandra Killeshandra	1840-1902 1840-1902	1864-1950	CRC PRONI	MIC/IE/51

Sources

Irish Genealogical Project Index dates shown are from Directory of Parish Registers Indexed in Ireland, Irish Family History Society, Co. Kildare, 2000.

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