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"Jonesborough, a parish, in the barony of UPPER ORIOR, county of ARMAGH, and province of ULSTER, 4-1/2 miles (S. W.) from Newry, adjoining the post-town of Fleury-bridge, and containing 1598 inhabitants, of which number, 174 are in the village. According to the Ordnance survey it comprises 2185-3/4 statute acres, including about 700 acres of bog and mountain. Clay-state and good granite for building are obtained here. The village, which comprises 35 houses, is situated on a mountain pass at the foot of two lofty hills close to the confines of Louth, and was burnt in 1798. Here is a good inn ; and a dispensary has been established, which is supported in the usual way. ... Near the village is Jonesborough House, the residence of Hamilton Skelton, Esq. ; and the glebe-house, of the Rev. Robert Henry. Here were formerly barracks for the accommodation of a troop of infantry, but the building has been converted into a private residence. The parish was formed out of that of Killevy, or Ballymore, in 1760, and endowed with the tithes and glebe, in 1789, by Primate Robinson."
[From the Jonesborough segment of Lewis' Topographical Dictionary (1837)]
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- 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
- Before visiting a Library to consult a book or other reference, please check with Library staff to ensure that the book is actually available. You may wish to try borrowing a book from the national libraries in Australia, Canada, England, the U.S., etc., either directly or via inter-library loan.
- 1901 and 1911 censuses - LDS microfilm numbers
- 1901 D.E.D. 60/1-3 -- FHL BRITISH Film 812103 Item 1
- 1911 Jonesborough D.E.D. 62/1-2 -- Townlands: Edenappa, Foughill Etra -- FHL BRITISH Film 1999607
- 1911 Jonesborough D.E.D. 62/3 -- Townland: Foughill Otra -- FHL BRITISH Film 1999608
- Church of Ireland - Parish of Jonesborough (Ballymascanlan) [Armagh diocese]
- Jonesborough (1732) parish church was closed 10 September 1978 and de-consecrated 12 November 1991. [Source: The South Armagh Genealogy Project]
- The Church of Ireland - Find a church page
- The current parish is centred at Creggan parish church at Crossmaglen (Ballymascanlan). Mailing address: 1 Whitemill Road, Lower Faughart, Dundalk, Co Louth, Eire. Tel: (042) 9371921
- Representative Church Body Library
- Braemor Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14; Tel: +353 (0)1 4923979
- Roman Catholic - Parish of Faughart (Dromintee) [Archdiocese of Armagh]
- Historically, the County Armagh portion of the R.C. Parish of Faughart (the larger part of which was in the County Louth) comprised the civil parish of Jonesborough
- Church of the Sacred Heart, at Jonesborough; Tel: 028 3084 8343. Mailing address: Parochial House, 30 Newline, Killeavy, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland; Tel: 028 3088 8381
- Today, that County Armagh portion of Faughart parish is part of the R.C. parish of Dromintee
- Modern R.C. pastoral areas are shown on this Pastoral Area Map
- Refer to Parish of Dromintee at CatholicIreland.net for a current directory listing
- Historically, the County Armagh portion of the R.C. Parish of Faughart (the larger part of which was in the County Louth) comprised the civil parish of Jonesborough
- Church of Ireland - Jonesborough parish [Armagh diocese]
- Baptisms 1802, 1812 -1829, 1833-1942; Marriages 1824 -1827, 1829-1844, 1845-1939, 1940-1978; Burials 1826-1827, 1829-1891, 1894-2000. Surname index, Tithe Register 1834.
- Roman Catholic - Dromintee parish [Archdiocese of Armagh]
- Baptisms, 1853-1879; marriages, 1853-1877. PRONI ref. MIC.1D/41.
- Baptisms, 7 Jan 1853 - 31 Aug 1879; marriages, 8 Nov 1853 - 13 Dec 1877. NLI ref. P.5590
- Map of RC parishes in Co Armagh, from John Grenham's Irish Ancestors web site
- Click on the parish of Dromintee, to obtain a list of parish registers
- Hold the mouse pointer over the parish to see variant names.
- Roman Catholic - Faughart parish [Archdiocese of Armagh]
- Baptisms 1851-1896, 1861-1881 (indexed); Marriages 1851-1900, 1851-1881 (indexed). PRONI ref. MIC.1D/47.
- Baptisms 1851-1880 (indexed); Marriages 1851-1880. LDS ref. FHL BRITISH Film 926040 item 1-5.
- Baptisms, 16 April 1851 - 23 Dec 1880; baptisms index, 1851-73 and 1874-96; marriages, 21 April 1851 - 24 Nov 1880; marriages index, 1851-75 and 1876-1900. NLI ref. P.5596
- Map of RC parishes in Co Armagh, from John Grenham's Irish Ancestors web site
- Click on the parish of Faughart, to obtain a list of parish registers
- Sources, for the references given above, include:
- Guide to Church Records: An Irish Genealogical Source/Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation on behalf of [the] Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1994.
- John Grenham's Irish Ancestors web site
- LDS FHC Catalogue
- National Library of Ireland (NLI), Lists of Roman Catholic Parish Registers
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The Wikipedia entry for Jonesborough.
- Chambers, S. W., Places of interest in Northern Ireland. No. 1: South Armagh, Newry and the Mourne Mountains, [Belfast: 1941]
- NLI: Ir 9141 p 106, Coll. Ir.
- The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
- Coote, Charles, Sir, Excerpt from Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, pub. 1804
- Lewis, Samuel, Jonesborough, from Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland [1837]
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Jonesborough to another place.
- Chambers, S. W., Places of interest in Northern Ireland. No. 1: South Armagh, Newry and the Mourne Mountains, [Belfast: 1941]
- NLI: Ir 9141 p 106, Coll. Ir.
You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference J0587617326 (Lat/Lon: 54.094211, -6.382512), Jonesborough which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Copy
Jonesborough
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.
- Ó Paircín, Liam, in AINM, Journal of the Ulster Place-name Society, Index of Contents, AINM - I-VIII
- Cuscraid Mend VII (1996-97), 152 (= BUPNS Series I Vol. 1 Part 2 (Spring 1953), 37 [25])
- Townland names - from the PRONI's Geographical Index of Northern Ireland
- The Armagh Observer, Co Down ed. & South Armagh ed., no.1691 ,1692; 1,8 Sept.1962
- IrelandOldNews - an ongoing, volunteer project to transcribe 18th & 19th century Irish newspapers
- Input "Jonesborough" and spelling variants (e.g., "Jonesboro") into the "Find" box
- Also try inputting townland and other placenames found in Jonesborough
- 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
- The Belfast Newspaper Index, 1737-1800; compiled by Dr. John C. Greene of Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A
- Mentions of Jonesborough in the Belfast Newsletter index
- ---, South Armagh! Your day for Ireland. [Bye-election appeal by Sinn Fein urging constituents to vote for complete separation from Great Britain], [n.p., 1918]
- NLI: ILB 300 p 3 [Item 110], Coll. Ilb.
- De Valera, Eamonn (1882-1975), To the voters of Armagh, printed for the Candidate, Dr. Patrick McCartan, by O'Loughlin, Murphy & Boland, Ltd., Dublin; and published by the Sinn Fein Election Committee, [Dublin], [1918]
- NLI: Ms 25,588(57), Manuscript Colls.
- Eye-witness, When McCartan comes marching home, [Dublin?], [1918]
- NLI: Ms 25,588(58), Coll Ms.
- McCartan, Patrick (1878-1966), Conscription, printed for the Candidate, Doctor Patrick McCartan, by O'Loughlin, Murphy and Boland, Ltd., Dublin; and published by the Sinn Fein Election Committee, [Dublin], [1918]
- NLI: Ms 25,588(56v), Coll Ms.
- McCartan, Patrick (1878-1966), Which do you choose?, printed for the Candidate at the Wood Printing Works, [Dublin], [1918]
- NLI: Ms 25,588(60), Coll Ms.
- O'Dwyer, Edward Thomas (1842-1917), The late Bishop of Limerick and John Redmond, printed by P. Mahon, Dublin, and published by the Candidate, [Dublin], [1918]
- NLI: Ms 25,588(58), Coll Ms.
- Newry Workhouse history - from the Newry Journal e-zine
- Newry Poorlaw Union and Workhouse - from Peter Higginbotham's The Story of Workhouses
- Holdings of documents related to Jonesborough parish at the PRONI
- Papers about individual parishes in the Armagh Diocesan Registry archive
- "Jonesborough, near Forkhill, Co Armagh -- The documents date from 1760, [1785?] and 1798-1916 (with many gaps), and include a petition and memorial of the Protestant parishioners to the Bishop of Dromore, complaining that for several years the parish has been without any resident curate, [1785?], papers about the building and enlargement of the glebe house, 1815 and 1863 respectively, and a c.1870 schedule of formal documents about buildings over the period 1779-1861."
- Papers about individual parishes in the Armagh Diocesan Registry archive
- Book List - many of these references are provided with library call numbers for QUB and/or NLI
- ---, Exploring living memory [(Slide)], Part 1: South Armagh reminiscence and recall, Confederation of Community Groups, Newry, 1985(Slide)
- QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus - ts/ HV1481.N8/EXPL
- Castleblayney Community Enterprises, Along the Black Pig's Dyke folklore from Monaghan and South Armagh, [Castleblayney Community Enterprises], [1993]
- NLI: Ir 3991 a 15, Collection Ir.
- 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
- Jonesborough parish segment -- online at John Hayes' web site
- 1848-1864, General valuation of rateable property in Ireland, "Griffith's Valuation"