Clonfeacle Civil Parish, County Armagh, Northern Ireland Genealogy

Guide to Clonfeacle Civil Parish, County Armagh ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, baptism records, marriage records, and burial records.

The following information is a starting point for records about the civil parish of Clonfeacle. The information is based on locations and records before 1922.

History
Clonfeacle is a parish in the unions of Armagh and Dungannon, partly in the barony of Armagh and partly in the barony of O'Nielland West, county of Armagh, but chiefly in the barony of Dungannon, county of Tyrone and province of Ulster.

The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Armagh. In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish is called Upper and Lower Clonfeacle and includes the whole parish of Eglish. There are chapels at Eglish, Moy, and Blackwater-town.

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Census
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The Catholic parish of Clonfeacle includes the civil parish of Clonfeacle, which is partly in county Armagh but chiefly in county Tyrone. The modern name of the parish is Moy. There are chapels in in Clonfeacle, or Benburb, and Moy in the Tyrone portion, and in Blackwatertown in Armagh.

The Catholic parish of Dungannon was formerly called Drumglass, Killyman and Tyllyniskin. It includes the civil parishes of Drumglass in Co. Tyrone, and Killyman and Clonfeacle in Co. Armagh but chiefly in Co. Tyrone.

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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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