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IRISH TUNES Last updated 15/5/2009 |
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The map below shows the part of Northern Ireland from which my ancestors came.
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| REGARDING HISTORY OF INNISRUSH
Extract from a "Quiet Places of the Lower Bann Valley" by John HUGHES and Donal BARTON. (circa 1998)
“In Co Derry across from Portglenone is Innisrush, named after an island that used to be in the middle of Green Lough (green lake). There was the residence of Hercules ELLIS, local landowners. It was once quite a thriving village. John CLEMENTS owned a woodworking business. The Green Lough which gave its name to the parish (Greenlough) has now disappeared, having been drained in the process of draining bogs in the late 1800's. However once there was an island in the middle of it and Brian CARRAGH built a castle on it and lived there till he died in 1586. He was the great grandson of Dumnhall Donn, Donnell the Brown, O'NEILL, who founded the sept clan Domhnaill-Duin-Na-Bana. He lived on the Antrim side but seized the O'Cahan clan's lands, which this was. Many tried to capture him but at this time the land was bog, water, and wood.”
Extract produced in an email by Linda Merle n 1998 to Ancestry.com. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Scotch-Irish/1998-10/0909120970
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| See also PORTGLENONE AND GLENONE.
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