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Boylan and Cullen families from Kiltyclogher and nearby Corranmore

Hello, I am trying to find out more information about my grandfather Patrick Boylan’s family. He was born in Kiltyclogher in 1890 to Francis Boylan (born 1864) and Catharine Cullen (born in 1871). He had 2 younger brothers - Francis (born 1892) and Hugh (born 1897) . I managed to find them on the 1901 census. The paternal grandmother Bridget Boylan who was a widow (born 1831) is listed as head of the household. It says that they were farmers. I do not know the first name of Bridget’s husband. The house was number 40 Kiltyclogher - no street name. I have a family tree of my great grandmother Catharine Cullen’s family. My grandfather Patrick Boylan married his second wife Catherine Cullen who was born in Glasgow (Uddingston I believe) in 1912. Her father was a Thomas Cullen who went to Glasgow where he joined the police force. He eventually moved back to Ireland and resided in Omagh, Co Tyrone. I know some information about the Cullen family from Kiltyclogher and Corranmore but know very little about where Francis Boylan came from and would love to find out. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you

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Birth of Patrick 1890

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BBirth of Hugh 1896

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Birth of Francis 1892

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Death of Bridget Boylan 1905 , widow of Patrick Boylan

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Death of Patrick Boylan 1878 (Husband of Bridget ?)

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Marriage cert for Francis Boylan and Catherine Cullen 1888

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Patrick Boylan’s farm in Kiltyclogher is listed in Griffiths Valuation. It was plot 8a, a 22 acre farm. Today that land is on the modern Laghty Barr Rd, not far from Sean MacDhiarmada’s cottage (a local tourist attraction). You can see where it is using the maps on the Griffiths site.

In rural Ireland your townland alone was sufficient to identify you and get a letter delivered etc. There were no street names or house numbers in rural areas.(Still the case today in some places). The number 40 in the 1901 census was just the enumerator’s private numbering system to ensure he had been to every property but it did not form part of any postal address. In the 1911 census that same property was no 43 (different enumerator = different numbering system).

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Leitrim/Kiltyclogher/Kiltyclogher/657287/

There were 62 households in Kiltyclogher (rural) in the 1911 census. Corranmore looks to me to be a sub-townland ie a small part of Kiltyclogher.

Article in the Sligo Champion of 30th July 1960 reports the visit of Patrick Boylan, son of the late Mr & Mrs Frank Boylan of Corranmore, Kiltyclogher. Patrick had been a police sergeant in Liverpool and after retiring from that was now involved in crime prevention at Liverpool docks. He had also been a local newspaper reporter in Leitrim 52 years previously and had later worked for the Ulster Herald in Omagh before joining the police.

Patrick in Omagh in 1911:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tyrone/Omagh_Urban/John_Street/843437/

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A huge thank you for all the research that you have done - it’s amazing the information that you found out. Thank you so much for all your effort and hard work. We would not have been able to discover all of the facts that you found out. 

BoylanCullen

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