GENUKI: Ballyconnell

Ballyconnell

"Ballyconnell, a market and post-town, in the parish of Tomregan, barony of Tullaghagh, county of Cavan and province of Ulster (12.5 miles W by NW) from Cavan and sixty eight miles from Dublin; containing 453 inhabitants. This place had its origin in the English settlement in the time of Jas. 1 when Captain Culme and Walter Talbot received 1500 acres, on which, at the time of the Pynnar's survey in 1619, was a strong bawn one hundred foot square and twelve foot high, with two flanking towers and a strong castle, three stories high, the whole occupying a site well adapted for the defence of the surrounding country."
[From Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]

Cemeteries
Description and Travel
History

Maps
Military Records
Societies

Cemeteries

O'Reilly, J. "Ballyconnell Cemetery Inscriptions Pre-1900" Breifne v. 7, No 25, 1986, p. 498-512

Ballyconnell Church, Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, , v.7, 1907-08, p.4

Erected
By
Robert William Story
Third Son of the Rev^d Joseph Story
Of Bingfield In this County
To The Memory Of His Beloved Wife
Sara Ainsworth Story
Youngest daughter of John Enery Esq^re
Of Ballyconnel House In This Parish
Who Departed This Life At Carlisle In Cumberland
9^th December 1829 Ætat 88
Deeply Lamented
Her Mortal Remians Lie Interred In The
Cathedral Burying Ground Of That City
Quis Desiderio Pudor Aut Modus Tam Cari Capitis

Description and Travel

Ballyhugh Arts & Culture Centre

History

Beneath Slieve Rushen’s Slopes, Ballyconnell Heritage Group, 2001.

Maps

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Military Records

Snodaigh, P.O. Irish Volunteers 1715-1793, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1995
- Ballyconnel Infantry - 1781, 1783, 1784
- Ballyconnel Volunteers, Ballyeaston company, Ballyconnell
- Montgomery Volunteers - 1779
  - Probably another name for the Ballyconnel Infantry

Societies

Ballyconnell Heritage Group, Annagh, Ballyconnell, Co Cavan

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[Last updated: 25th April 2002 - Colin Ferguson ]

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