Cloherbrien Townland

Hi Gerard and Roger, I have not heard this name in common usage. I suggest you contact Mike the archivist at the Kerry Library as he has some very old maps in the archive and may be able to answer your question.

http://www.kerrylibrary.ie/local-history-amp-archives.html

Would you come back and let us know what you find Gerard as this could be useful to others searching in the area.

Martine

Thank you all.  My surname is Fitzmaurice.  Other relatives who's baptism records note they resided in Carrigleagh are Shean, Scanlan, Comane (Cummane, O'Cummane), Meagher, Tuomy(Twomy), O'Kirby (Kirby), O'Kirvick, Fitzgerald, Gavin (Galvin), Savage, and Mahir.  There are many different spellings of surnames, Carrigleagh and Cloherbrien.  For the following I'll spell them as recorded, i.e. not typos.  There were others (nonrelatives) who also noted Carrigleagh in the parish of Tralee as their residence.  I think that if all these people resided in Carrigleagh, it must have been a real place at one time (1770 to 1850).  Edward Fitzmaurice of Carigleagh born 1773 on to Joanna Fitzmaurice of Carrigliagh born 1836.  But her brother Thomas was born 1838 address Cloherbrien.  There was another Joanna Fitzmaurice born in 1776 with the address noted as Cariglieh Clohorbrien.  The name Carrigleagh seems to have gone out of use before 1850.  I'll check the Tithe listings for 1824 to see if I have any luck.  Thanks again everyone.  

Thanks for sharing your names Gerard. I have Sheehan/Sheahan and Sugrue in my family tree from the Spa area at that time and will double check to see if any of yours feature. Some marriages for the area took place in Ardfert RC Parish and others in Tralee. I wonder would the old graveyard in Clogherbrien yield any results for you. I heard that it had been cleaned up. but I don't know if the writing is legible on the gravestones.

Martine

Thanks Martine.  I'll be going to Ireland in mid May and the Clogherbrien Cemetery is number one on my list.  My only concern is whether the sheep I see in every picture are friendly.  lol  If I find any of your relatives, and mine, I'll let you know.  Were probably related.  :)  

Thanks to everyone for your help.  After researching the 1824 tithe applotment records, Griffith's valuation and other records, Carrigleagh was an 11 house village on the west side of R551 in the triangle area of northern Clotherbrien townland.  My GGG grandfather Edward Fitzmaurice lived there in 1824.  The 11 homeowners in 1850 were Captain Oliver Stokes, John Commane, John Barrett, John Fitzgerald, John Driscoll, Bernard Cantling, William Fitzgerald, Margaret Kearney, Jeremiah Leary, Michael Barrett and Elizabeth Kerby.  My Fitzmaurice ancestors had marriages with at least the Fitzgerald, Kerby, Commane and Stokes families.  By 1850 my Fitzmaurice ancestors had moved to North America.  On google satelite the village appears to still be there although I suspect noone calls it Carrigleagh anymore.  Thanks again everyone.