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Ballyjamesduff

"Ballyjamesduff, a market and post-town, and a district parish, in the barony of Castlerahan, county of Cavan, and province of Ulster, eight miles from Cavan and 44 miles from Dublin; containing 3227 inhabitants of which number 863 are in the town. The town is situated on the old mail-coach road from Virginia to Cavan and consists of five streets, containing together 150 houses. The market is on Tuesday and is amply supplied. Here is a constabulary police station, and petty sessions are held. The parish was created in 1831, by disuniting nine townlands from the parish of Castleraghan, five from that of Denn, two from Lurgan, and four from the parish of Kildrumferton."
[From Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]

History

Langtry, Gerard, The Presbyterian Church and congregation of Ballyjamesduff 1721 - 1980, Ballyjamesduff ., 1984.
Meharry History Committee. History of the Meharry family in America : descendants of Alexander Meharry I, who fled during the reign of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, on account of religious persecution, from near Ayr, Scotland, to Ballyjamesduff, Cavan County, Ireland; and whose descendant Alexander Meharry III emigrated to America in 1794, Imprint Lafayette, Ind. : Lafayette Printing Co., 1925. [Search NY Lib]
Golden Jubilee Souvenir of Holy Trinity Abbey Kilnacrott: 1924-1974 Kilnacrott Ballyjamesduff Co. Cavan: Holy Trinity Abbey, 1974

Military Records

Snodaigh, P.O. Irish Volunteers 1715-1793, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1995
- Second Ballyduff Volunteers - 1783, 1784
- The only occurrence noted was on an undated gorget which probably referred to one of the Ballyjamesduff/Ballyduff yeomanry units

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