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Davy family from Liscouvey, Sligo

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I am hoping to have someone explain to me the areas that I should be reaching.   I am trying to break a brick wall for Thomas Francis Davy. b 1815 in Sligo. Some of the children were born in Tauagh or Tawnagh. Also Ballymoate is mentioned.  According to the Boston Pilot ad, Thomas left  Liscouvey, Sligo in 1847 for New York. His father, Michael was mentioned in the Ad. In addition Ballymoate is mentioned. My question is: are all of these Townlands or Parishes?  I am very grateful if someone could clarify this for me.  Thanks, Mona

mshea

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Mona:

Davy is almost exclusively a Co. Sligo surname. Tawnagh is a civil parish in Co. Sligo and also an RC parish known also as Riverstown and records for that parish go back to 1803. Ballymote is a town  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballymote ; and also an RC parish also known as Emlaghfad/Kilmorgan and this parish is just to the west of Riverstown/Tawnagh. Baptismal records for Emlaghfad parish start in 1856

Liscouvey is likely a local place name but it is not listed in the offical townland list. There is a Lisconny townland in Drumcolumb civil parish and a Lisconry townland in Drumrat civil parish both in the general area of Tawnagh and Ballymote.

I did check the subscription site Roots Ireland and there are about ten Davy baptismal records from 1814-1820 but no Thomas. The earliest Davey record with a father Michael is in 1826.

Likely there is no baptismal record for Thomas Francis.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Roger McDonnell

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Roger, 

Thank you for responding and I feel I have a  better understanding of these different areas.   I am deeply grateful and  if you could clarify one more thing for me.  I have just spent a good amount of time trying to figure where  Taunagh Catholic Parish, Sligo is located.  Is this part of Tawnagh? Pehaps a Townland? I noticed it is mentioned as 
Taunagh Catholic Parish with Taunagh National School,    Again, thank you very much. 

Mona 

mshea

Mona:

Tawnagh (Taunagh) or Riverstown parish covers the area of five different civil parishes including Tawnagh civil parish. 

 If you look at this picture  https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0565  ; on the NLI site (upper right corner) it will give you an idea where the parish area was. To the northeast and east was Co. Leitrim (light blue shading).

Tawnagh national school is in Riverstown. https://www.taunaghns.ie/

Let me know if you have further questions.

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Hello Mona,

I have Davy ancestors who lived in Sligo. They were from Muckelty. I have copied some info about Muckelty below. It possibly borders the area where your ancestors were from. 

Muckelty borders the following other townlands:

Achonry to the east. Ballinvally to the north. Carnyara to the north. Tawnavoultry to the east. Toberscardan to the south. Tobertelly to the west

My ancestor was Catherine Davy. She was my ggg grandmother. 

If you would like to find out more I would be happy to correspond via Ireland XO and could give you the link to my ancestry page. I also would very much like to try to find out anything possible about the Davy family.

Best wishes,

Mandy Collins

Mandy Collins

Hello again Mona. I just google mapped Tawnaugh to Muckelty and it is less than 30 km away. Considering what Roger says about the Davy surname being pretty well  a Sligo only name and there being only 10 Davy births recorded for the area, the likelihood that your Davys are also my Davys is pretty good. 

Mandy Collins

Also, Thomas was either Catharine's brother or father.

Mandy Collins

Hi, I am late to this rodeo, but I too have Davey from Sligo. William Francis Davey was born about 1800. He married Mary McNulty and they had at least 7 children, the first in 1924. Mary died around 1839 and William took his children to Canada and then the States. All I have is rumors as I haven't found any documentation in Ireland, but I believe they lived in/around Curry. I do know, and have seen a reference to, William Francis being some kind of caretaker in Doocastle, County Mayo. I wonder if either of you have had any breakthroughs since last posting. I'm stuck at William Francis. :)

Best,

Kathleen McClusky

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