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Location: Drumgooland, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Drumgooland, Down One Place Study
Welcome to the One Place Study of Drumgooland Parish, County Down! We're just getting started. Check out the list of resources below to assist in your research. Please tag your Drumgooland ancestors with [[Category: Drumgooland, Down One Place Study]] as part of the study.
About Drumgooland Parish
Drumgooland Parish is located mostly in the barony of Upper Iveagh, Lower Half in the county of Down in Northern Ireland. It is situated halfway between Banbridge and Newcastle, and is about an hour ride from Belfast by bus or car.
Read a description of Drumgooland Parish from A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.
Name
Geography
- Continent: Europe
- Country: Northern Ireland
- Province: Ulster
- County: Down
- GPS Coordinates: 54.295142, -6.035203
- Elevation: 158.0 m or 518.4 feet
Townlands
- In the table below the first column takes you to the category for the townland. The other columns take you to Townlands.ie and PlacenamesNI.org respectively. Both have good maps of the townlands but the PlacenamesNI one is not on the same page. You need to click on Map.
- The parish free space page for Drumgooland Civil Parish, County Down has the links for the 1901 and 1911 censuses for each townland in the parish already set up. At the bottom of the list of townlands and census links is the link back to this page.
- Additionally If you click on the category you will find a link to 'Places Nearby' which uses the Logainm facilities to see various placee around the townland selected.
History
Population
- Note: Population centres for this Parish, where known, are shown here. For a full list see Towns of County Down
Ballyward
- Irish or Alternate Name: Baile Mhic an Bhaird.
- WikiTree Category: Category for Ballyward
- Map: Google Maps OpenStreetMap
- Places Nearby: Click for list
- Grifiths Valuation.
Deehommed
- Irish or Alternate Name: Deachoimheád.
- WikiTree Category: Category for Deehommed
- Map: Google Maps OpenStreetMap
- Places Nearby: Click for list
- Grifiths Valuation.
Drumlee
- Irish or Alternate Name: Droim Lao.
- WikiTree Category: Category for Drumlee
- Map: Google Maps OpenStreetMap
- Places Nearby: Click for list
- Grifiths Valuation.
Leitrim Village (pop 150)
- Irish or Alternate Name: Liatroim.
- Web page for Leitrim Village
- WikiTree Category: Category for Leitrim Village
- Map: Google Maps OpenStreetMap
- Places Nearby: Click for list
- Grifiths Valuation.
Notables
Resources
- 1901 & 1911 Census of Ireland, Record National Archives of Ireland
- Griffith's Valuation records for Drumgooland Parish or search by family name.
- Public Records Office of Northern Ireland Search the online archives.
- General Register Office, Northern Ireland civil registration search
- Ros Davies' Co. Down, Northern Ireland Family History Research Site
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