Drumreilly Civil Parish, County Cavan, Ireland Genealogy

Ireland Counties of Ireland  County Cavan  County Cavan Parishes The following information is a starting point for records about the civil parish of Drumreilly. The information is based on locations and records before 1922.

History
Drumreilly is a parish located partly in the barony of Tullaghagh, county of Cavan, and province of Ulster, and partly in that of Dromahaire, but chiefly in that of Carrigallen, county of Leitrim, and province of Connaught, which is located about two miles from Ballinamore, on the road to Killeshandra. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Kilmore.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it is divided into three parochial benefices, Upper Drumreilly, Lower Drumreilly, and Ballinagleragh, containing three chapels, besides a fourth annexed to Lower Drumreilly, called the mountain chapel.

Localities
The parish of Drumreilly is surrounded by the parish of Templeport and county of Leitrim. It is located in the poor law union of Bawnboy.

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Census
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Catholic
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The Catholic parish of Corlough includes parts of the civil parishes of Templeport and Drumreilly.

The Catholic parish of Drumreilly Lower contains part of the civil parish of Drumreilly.

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Presbyterian
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Methodist
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Civil Registration
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Land records
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Probate records
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School records
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Tax records
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