Garranekinnefeake Civil Parish, County Cork, Ireland Genealogy

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

History
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Localities
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CURRENT TOWNLANDS OF GARRANEKINNEFEAKE

Garranekinnefeake Jamesbrook Rathcoursey East Rathcoursey West Scartlea Lower Scartlea Upper

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GUY'S ALMANAC mentions Garranekinnefeake and its townlands. page 69

HISTORIC TOWNLANDS: Rostellan Jamesbrook Scartlea Lower Rathcoursey East Scartlea Upper Rathcoursey West

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A map of the townlands here.

An amazingly detailed interactive historic map from Ordnance Survey Ireland. that clearly shows the townlands, roads, towns, homes, fields, estates, etc.

Cork City Council has a website with historical directories and etc.

Garranekinnefeake and its townlands appear in a number of places in Guy's Directory 1875-1876 :

Pages 33, 69, 137, 193, 293 (and etc., individuals are usually listed with their location). Page 69 names the townlands and gives their area and land valuation. Page 193 describes Cloyne and names Garranekinnefeake as an official parish. Page 137 describes Ballinacurra and names landholders and officials living in Jamesbrook. Page 290 describes Queenstown (now Cobh) and Garranekinnefeake is mentioned as a ferry connection to the Great Island in the description (page 293).

This link is to a text version of Guy's Directory. It is garbled and difficult to read, yet allows searching for individual names and towns, etc., which can then be found in the original scanned images from which it was derived.

Cemeteries
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Garranekinnefeake Cemetery - this site has photos of headstones, though only a few have been transcribed.

Census
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Church records
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Church of Ireland
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Presbyterian
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Methodist
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Society of Friends
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Others
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Civil Registration
Government registration of births and deaths began in 1864. Registration of Protestant marriages began in 1845, with all marriages being registered by 1864. Go to the Ireland Civil Registration article to read more about these records.

Land records
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Probate records
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School records
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Tax records
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