Abbeygormacan Civil Parish, County Galway, Ireland Genealogy

Ireland County Galway  Abbeygormacan Civil Parish

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History
ABBEYGORMAGAN, a parish, partly in the baronies of Leitrim, [mostly] in that of Longford, County Galway, and province of Connaught, about 8 miles northwest of Eyrecourt; population in 1837 was 2,858.

According to the 19th century topographer, Samuel Lewis, the "place, [was] called also "Monaster O'Gormagan," or "de Via Nova," derives its name from a monastery founded here for canons regular of the order of St. Augustine, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, by O'Gormagan, head of that sept, which at the dissolution was granted by Hen. VIII to Ulick, first Earl of Clanricarde. The parish comprises 8865 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act: about one-third is arable. Brooklawn is the seat of T. Blake, Esq. It is in the diocese of Clonfert; the rectory is partly appropriate to the set, the deanery, and the archdeaconry, and to the prebends of Fenore, Kilquaine and Kilteskill, in the cathedral church of St. Brandon, Clonfert, and partly united with the vicarage, which forms a portion of the union of Kiltormer. In the R. C. divisions it is the head of a union or district, comprising also the parish of Killoran,ineach of which there is a chapel: that for this parish is situated at Mullagh."

Lewis, Samuel A., Topographical Ditionary of Ireland, publ. 1837: London. See online at: Library of Ireland

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