Knockmore Carlogan ? Hamletts

Per a tree on Ancestry, Thomas had a brother David. This is his baptismal record from RootsIreland (paid subscription). His sister Catherine (1840) shows the same address.

MGR; THIS MAY BE A DUPLICATE ENTRY ALTHOUGH CHRISTENING DATE AND
SPONSOR 1 IS DIFFERENT SEE ENTRY NO. 1-153-1120.
ENTRY NO. ABOVE READS 1188A.

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Currabaggan is mentioned on this site

Our Parish | Backs Parish

If this is the correct name, this real estate ad shows it on the map. I read at another site that is 1 km from the village of Knockmore.

Currabaggan, Knockmore, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland ::: Irish Property Price Register

If you feel this is the right family, I can provide additional info from Ancestry. It looks like his father died early and Mary remarried.

You can see more about the townland of Knockmore at this link, which includes an interactive map allowing you to look at nearby areas:

https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/tirawley/ballynahaglish/mount-falcon/knockmore/

There are also links there to the 1901 and 1911 censuses, as well as Griffiths Valuation (mid-1800's). If you click on the Griffiths link, and then on the further links marked "Occupants", you can see lists of the holders of tenancies within the townland. There were several Rochford tenants at the time. None are named Anthony, but the odds are that the list includes Anthony's father and/or uncles (or possibly an elder brother who had succeeded to the tenancy). If you look at the 1901 census link, you'll see that there were still "Rotchfort" families living there, including a 10-year-old named Anthony.

Surnames were spelled all sorts of ways, so the variations Rochford and Rotchfort are not surprising. The Rathfod in the other record listed above is probably due to clerical error. In the mid-1800's (and for quite a while later), that area was entirely Irish speaking, so the family may not have even been aware of the spelling differences (priests and clerks wrote whatever they thought was appropriate in most cases). Rochford and its variants is a surname found in several parts of Ireland, and is usually of Norman origin, but according to MacLysaght's Surnames of Ireland, in Mayo it was used as an anglicization of the Irish surname Ó Reachtnín, which originated in Mayo and was also anglicized in other ways, such as [O'] Roughneen or [O'] Raghtneen.

"Currabaggan" is actually the name of two townlands just to the north of Knockmore, Corraveggaun East [Cora Bheagáin Thoir] and Corraveggaun West [Cora Bheagáin Thiar]. You can see the pages for those townlands by using the links at the above site. The reason for the discrepancy in spelling between Currabaggan and Corraveggaun has to do with the pronunciation of the Irish form of the name (non-Irish speakers who created written records were often unclear on how to pronounce Irish names), and Corraveggaun is a closer approximation of the Irish. The townland names mean roughly "eastern little hill" and "western little hill". In case you're interested, Knockmore is an anglicized spelling of the Irish name An Cnoc Mór, which means "the big hill".

There don't appear to be Griffiths Valuation listings for either of the Corraveggaun's. Townland boundaries (and names) were not standardized until later in the19th century, so Knockmore may have encompassed all three townlands in the mid-1800's, with your relatives perhaps living in the northerly part, which later became Corraveggaun East and Corraveggaun West.

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These townlands are all in the Catholic parish of Backs, and you can access the parish registers for Backs at this link:

https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0738

They don't go back as far as the baptismal date for Anthony listed above, but you may find other family members there.

As for Ballina, when you see references to it, especially in civil records, note that it doesn't mean that the person lived there. It's the name of the registration district for the area, when civil records (such as birth records) began to be kept, later in the century (1864 for Catholic records).

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Thank you very much for your help Mary and Kevin.

Regards

Julie