Information about Gurrane Upper

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Gurrane Upper
Irish Form of Name:
Garran
Translation:
a copse
Civil Parish:
Ballynacourty
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Gurrane Upper
Gurraun Upper A. F. St. George, Esq.
Upper Gurrane Clerk of the Peace
Garrane County Book
Garrane County Quaere Book
Gurrane County Registry 1820
Upper Gurrane High Constable for the Barony
Gurrane Upper Lord Wallscourt
Garrane Quit Rent Ledger
Gurrane Upper Rev. T. E. Gill, Oranmore
Gurraun Upper Sketch Map
Description:
The estate of Lord Wallscourt, who occupies about 40 acres of it himself, the remainder is let to tenants at will at £1. 10. p. acre. The inhabitants live in a village called by the townland and are apparently very poor. Houses built of stone. A little E. of the village is a kind of Turlough of about 13 acres. The townland is all uncultivated except this and about 5 acres of rocky ground . There are 2 forts one on S. called Raheenavaddogue the other at the village called Raween.
Situation:
A central townland. Bounded on the N. and W. by Gurraun Lower, on E. and N.E. by Cottage and on S. by Ballynamanna W. and Knockawuddy.

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:
Garran, Garrane, and Garraun nearly always mean a shrubbery or copse. See vol. i. p. 498 [reproduced below].
Garrán is a shrubbery. There are a great many places in Munster and Connaught called Garran, Garrane, and 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.

Information From Griffith's Valution

Area in Acres, Roods and Perches:
A.R.P.
174 0 39
Land value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
119 18 11
Building value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
0 0 0
Total value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
119 18 11
Heads of housholds living in the townland at this time:
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Townland Information

What is a townland?:
A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169
Townland:
Gurrane Upper is a townland.
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Information From Maps

Original OS map of this area.
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Gurrane Upper
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Gurrane Upper
Information from the Down Survey Website.
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Neighbouring Townlands

List of townlands that share a border with this townland:
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Population and Census Information

People who lived here:
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:
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.)
Gurrane Upper is in the civil parish of Ballynacourty.
Roman Catholic parishes:
This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.
  • Kilcameen and Ballynacourty (Oranmore)
Church of Ireland parishes:
This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.
  • Ballynacourty
In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.

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