Information about Barragarraun

Barragarraun in Galway; Barra-garrdin, summit of the shrubbery. For garran, see [reproduced below] vol. i. p. 498.

Garrán is a shrubbery. There are a great many places in Munster and Connaught called Garran, Garrane, Garraun, all derived from this word. It is also found in Leinster, but not often, except in Kilkenny; and it occurs half a dozen times in Monaghan, but I have not found it elsewhere in Ulster. Garranamanagh, the name of a parish in Kilkenny, signifies the shrubbery of the monks; and there is another parish in Cork called Garranekinnefeake, the shrubbery of Kinnefeake, a family name. Ballingarrane, Ballygarran, Ballygarrane, and Ballygarraun, all townland names, signify the town of the shrubbery.

Some other placenames in or near this townland are...

• Knockatee (trigonometrical station)

Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Barragarraun

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Barragarraun

The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).

Down Survey Website
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

This is a list of townlands that share a border with this townland.

• Aille
• Ballycoony
• Caheratrim
• Cahercrea East
• Glanaclaura West
• Glenaclara

You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.

• The Tithe Applotment Books
• Griffith's Valuation
• 1901 Census
• 1911 Census

List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Barragarraun is in the civil parish of Killeenadeema.

This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.

• Killeenadeema & Aille

This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.

• Killeenadeema

In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.