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Parish choices in County Donegal

At a dead end for my Monday (Mundy, Munday) family which emigrated to America back in the early 1840's.  We do know that they originated in the Glen of Glenties area, from a letter received in America by a husband of one of their children.  The letter, as transcribed, references a townland of "Baucrubigiba ?, the town name as "Glen of Glenties" and the parish as "Imiesseal ?"

I am looking for the correct spellings of the townland and parish, and would like also to know if there are any Munday's still in that area, if anyone knows?

I've attached a list of the names of Owen and Hannah Munday and their children, all born in Ireland, and of their son John, who emigrated around 1840, as his marriage and the birth of their children took place in America.

Any hints in trying to find Owen and Hannah's parents and siblings would be greatly appreciated! Along with any hints in digging deeper.

Thank you

Sheri

 

Sheri Kollman

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I suspect that 'Baucrubigiba' is probably a mishearing or mistranscription of 'Buncroobog' townland (placename database) it's loctaed in one of the glens of Glenties a short distance to the east of the town.

The town of Glenties and the area around it were in the civil and Catholic parish of 'Inishkeel' which could be a mis-transcription of 'Imiesseal' ?

Do you know what denomination your Mundy family were ?

Unfortunately County Donegal is not good for early Catholic records, the registers for Inishkeel only cover back to the 1860s.
One of the chapels for Glenties RC parish was located in the adjacent townland of Mullanmore.

shanew147IrelandXO Volunteer

Sheri:

The civil parish is likely Inishkeel. The town of Glenties is part of Inishkeel civil parish.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenties

The townland is problematic. Below are all the townlands in Inishkeel civil parish which start with a "B".

Ballyiriston Ballymackilduff Banganboy Barkillew Beagh Beaghmore Bellaganny Bellanamore Bracky Buncroobog

My best guess would be Buncroobog. We don't know if the townland name mentioned was actually a local place name and not a townland.

I assume your Munday ancestors were Roman Catholic? Unfortunately, finding RC chuech records in Donegal pre-1850 is very difficult. The records for the Inishkeel area start after 1850.

I checked the 1857 Griffiths Valuation head of household listing and there were no Munday records in Inishkeel parish. The majority of the Munday records were in Inishmacsaint civil parish which is in the very southern tip of Donegal near the Co. Sligo border.

The 1901 census had one Munday family in Inishkeel parish in the townland of Maas.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Donegal/Maas/Maas/1180…

I don't know if there are any Munday families still in the parish today.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Roger McDonnell

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Sheri:

Looks like Shane and I came to the same conclusion.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

forgot to mention - the Irish name for the townland of Buncroobog is 'Bun Crúbóige'  pronounced something like  bun kru boi ga , even closer to 'Baucrubigiba'...

shanew147IrelandXO Volunteer

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