Information about Corgerry

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Corgerry
Irish Form of Name:
Cor Dhoire
Translation:
odd derry or oak wood
Civil Parish:
Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Corgerry
Cor Dhoire
Recte Corderry [Corderry crossed out]
Curgerry Eaghter B. S.
Curgurry County Map
Corgerry Inq. Temp. Eliz.
Corgerye Inq. Temp. Eliz.
Corgery Inq. Temp. Jac. I
Curgerry Eaghter Rev. J. F. Noon, P.P.
Curgerry Eighter Rev. M. Armstrong, Rector
Description:
Walter Joyce, Esq., Proprietor. This townland contains 358 acres, 170 of which are cultivated, 29 uncultivated, 24 wood and 135 bog. The above keeps this townland in his own possession. County Cess 1s. 2d. half yearly. The soil is heave clay. Produce is grass. No mineral.
Situation:
Situated on the E. boundary of the parish. It has Cloverfield and Graig on the W. Kifilligy and Rahins, S. Ballynahatanna, and Meelick, both in the parish of Killosolan, N. by the parish of Moylough and Doon Wood.

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:
Corgerry in Galway; understood locally as Cor-dhoire, odd oakwood — quite in accordance with phonetic custom. For Cor is often used in this sense, and the change of dh to g is a usual error, for which see p. 6, III [reproduced below].
III. D is sometimes changed to g. and q to d, as we see in Doogarry, in the parishes of Aghamore and Kilcolman, in Mayo, of which the original is Dubh-dhoire, black oak-grove (not black garden here, as Doogarry would indicate). This interchange or confusion mainly arises from the fact that the two aspirates dh and gh are practically identical in sound: so that if one of them got restored, it was almost impossible - except to a person specially skilled - to tell by ear alone, which consonant, d or q, should be selected and written. If a native pronounced Doogarry (one of the two above), he would aspirate the middle consonant, and it would be practically impossible for most listeners to determine whether this middle consonant was gh or dh, so that in dropping the aspiration and restoring the full consonant, it was as likely as not that the wrong one would be selected, as is actually done in Doogarry where the g should be d. There are other Doogarrys, but they are black garden (garrdha) or black weir (caradh), or uncertain; a good illustration of the difficulty of distinguishing between dh and gh.

Information From Griffith's Valution

Area in Acres, Roods and Perches:
A.R.P.
357 1 3
Land value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
123 8 9
Building value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
10 8 0
Total value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
128 15 1
Heads of housholds living in the townland at this time:

Townland Information

What is a townland?:
A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169
Townland:
Corgerry is a townland.

Information From Maps

Original OS map of this area.
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Corgerry
Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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Corgerry
Information from the Down Survey Website.
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Neighbouring Townlands

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Population and Census Information

People who lived here:
You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.
  • The Tithe Applotment Books
  • Griffith's Valuation
  • 1901 Census
  • 1911 Census
List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.
Church records of births, deaths and marriages:
Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)
Corgerry is in the civil parish of Killoscobe.
Roman Catholic parishes:
This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.
  • Menlough (Killascobe)
Church of Ireland parishes:
This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.
  • Killoscobe
In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.

Other Sources

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