Clare

• Abbreviations used in these GENUKI County Armagh, and library notes
  • AIGS = Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies
  • FHL = Family History Library (LDS)
  • LDS = Latter Day Saints
  • NLI = National Library of Ireland
  • PRO = National Archives (formerly, the Public Record Office) at Kew, England
  • PRONI = Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
  • QUB = Queen's University, Belfast
     
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• Ireland, Census Office, 1901 & 1911 Census returns, Ballymore Parish (Armagh) - FHL Film numbers

For the locatons of churches & graveyards in & around Clare, click on the "Nearby churches" tab above.

• Church of Ireland
• Presbyterian
• Reformed Presbyterian

• Armagh Diocesan Registry Archive: Papers running from 1840-52, including a schedule of formal documents dated c.1870; correspondence, specifications, plans, etc. of 1840-43 and 1845, relating to a new church. Held at the PRONI in Belfast, ref. DIO/4/32/C.
• Hamilton, Alexander [1774- ], notes on the history of the (Church of Ireland) parish church of Clare, in Miscellaneous data from Ireland, FHL film no. 1279332, item 1

• Church of Ireland, Clare [Armagh diocese]
  • Earliest records destroyed in Dublin.
  • Baptisms, 1880-; marriages, 1845-; burials, 1880-. In local custody.
• Clare Presbyterian Church
  • Baptisms, 1824-1945; marriages, 1825-1936. PRONI ref. MIC.1P/329
  • Presbyterian Historical Society
    • Room 218, Church House, Fisherwick Place, Belfast, Northern Ireland BT1 6DW

• Landscape Character Areas - from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA)
  • Armagh Drumlins
  • Banbridge Hills
  • Carrigatuke Hills
  • Upper Bann Flood Plain

• Young, Alex F., and Des Quail, Old Tandragee, Richhill, Markethill and Poyntzpass with Loughgall, Clare, Laurelvale, Glenanne, Mullavilly and Hamiltonsbawn (Stenlake Publishing, 2003): 48 pages, 60 photographs.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• References to residents of Clare may be found in Slater's Directory of 1881, in the Tanderagee section

• Lewis, Samuel, Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837: Clare

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Clare to another place.

• O'Hare, Harry, Mavemacullen Townland, hosted by the Poyntzpass & District Local History Society
• McGleenon, C.F., Patterns of settlement in the Catholic parishes of Ballymore and Mullaghbrack in the 17th and 18th centuries, Seanchas Ardmacha, Vol 15 no 2 (1993) pp 51-83
• Patterson, T.G.F., The parish of Ballymore - Early history, in Armachiana, Vol. 6 pp 1-16

• Exemplification of a Common Recovery, between John Thomlinson, gent., Querens, and Walter Sweetman and others, involving one moiety of the manor of Clare and also of 5 castles, 150 messuages, 200 cottages, etc. Held by the Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon, in the Hinchingbrooke Collection, ref. HINCH 2/148.
• Lease and release, a conveyance (in addition to other pieces of land and property) of the Mill of Clare, by the Rt. Hon. John 5th Earl of Sandwich, to Walter Sweetman of Dublin. Held by the Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon, in the Hinchingbrooke Collection, ref. HINCH 2/146-147.
• Notes on the Manors of Clare, in Armachiana (typed notes and lectures by Mr. T.G.F. Paterson), Volume 6, pp 176-181. Held at the Armagh County Museum, in Armagh. Also available on FHL film no. 1279355.
• Rentals of the estates of the manors of Ballymore and Kernan, the property of Lady Bernard and Mrs. Frances St. John, Armagh County Museum no. P9, Microfilm of original: 1782-1789 2 v. Originals are at the Armagh County Museum, Armagh, FHL Film 1279332 Items 11-12: May and Nov. 1782 -- May and Nov. 1789.

You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference J0088043585 (Lat/Lon: 54.33103, -6.450042), Clare which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Copy Clare and paste it along with the county name into the search box at Ordnance Survey Ireland.
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• IrelandOldNews - an ongoing volunteer project to transcribe 18th & 19th century Irish newspapers
  • Input "Ballymore" or "Clare" into the "Find" box
  • Also try inputting townland and other placenames found in the parish of Ballymore
  • Of course, you may also wish to search for your favourite personal and family names!
  • Revisit the IrelandOldNews web site periodically, as transcribers update their county pages regularly

• Armagh Poor Law Union - from Peter Higginbotham's The Story of Workhouses

• Probate copy of will (29 March 1755), of Walter Dawson of Dublin, in which he bequeathed to his wife, Elizabeth, his lease for 3 lives of the house and demesne of Clare, co. Armagh.  At the Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon, England; in the Hinghinbrooke collection, ref. HINCH 2/145.

• Holdings of documents related to Ballymore parish at the PRONI
  • OS Map portions of parishes in Killevy, Loughgilly, Killmore and Ballymore, Co. Armagh, PRONI ref. D/1577
  • Tithe composition details for the parishes of Armagh, Ballymore, Killevey, Loughgilly, Mullaghbrack and Tynan, Co. Armagh, 1837-1838, in maps, surveys, plans, and valuations held within the Gosford papers

• Registers of old Clare National School, 1868-1951, FHL film no. 1656973, items 4-7 (microfilm of original records held at the PRONI in Belfast)

• Valuation Records
  • 1848-1864, General valuation of rateable property in Ireland, "Griffith's Valuation"
    • Listed every occupier of land, the lessor of that land, size of the holding, and the rate payable on that holding
    • Ballymore parish segment -- online at John Hayes' web site