Connolly from Dundalk

Hello Joe, I'm not related but uncovered some information, including photos of a few old buildings in Seatown, Dundalk. I'll send you this information along with an old map of Dundalk and Seatown as soon I've compiled all the information, and as soon as I hear from you. Also I found Peter Connolly's baptism record as well as what may be the baptism records of 7 of his siblings. Do you have these baptism records? If not I can send them all to you as well, but it will take some time to compile these records, along with other information I located about the Connolly family. I'll begin more research for your Connollys as soon as I hear from you.

Kind Regards Joe,

Dave Boylan

Thank you. I do have the baptism records for nine children of Patrick Connolly and Anne Hoey, plus their marriage record from Feb. 10, 1823 (witnesses were John Conolly and Judith Ruddy). I've been unsuccessful finding Patrick's parents, although there is a Patrick Connolly on Seatown at one point with Catherine Connolly, possibly his mother, listed as his landlord. And there are so many Hoeys and Haugheys in Seatown at the time, I'm not sure which would be Anne's parents. The Seatown Graveyard is at the end of the street inside St. Leonard's Gardens (I think) but I can't find much info on the graves there.

Thanks again,

Joe

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Hello Joe,

Many thanks for your reply. I found a webpage entitled, “Memorial Inscriptions,” which includes the subheading, “County Louth Memorial Inscriptions,” at the jbhallfreeservers.com website at:
http://www.jbhall.freeservers.com/memorial_inscriptions.htm

The inscriptions are arranged by town and scrolling down the page to Dundalk, you’ll see the following entries pertaining to Dundalk and surrounding cemeteries:

“Dundalk: Castletown - Noel Ross and Maureen Wilson, Tombstone Inscriptions in Castletown Graveyard, Dundalk, Dundalk 1992. Published by the Old Dundalk Society. Also Journal of the Association for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead, Vol. VII No. 2, Part 1 (1907). See the Faughart Historical Properties Preservation Society web site at http://www.faughart.com/page1.html for the above transcription by Noel Ross and Maureen Wilson.

Dundalk: St. Nicholas (Church of Ireland) - Philip Crossle (and others), 'Dundalk, St. Nicholas Churchyard', in Journal of the Association for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead, Vol. VII No. 2, Part 1 (1907), Vol VII No.3, Part 2 (1909), Vol. VIII No. 4 (1911), Vol. VIII No. 6 (1912), Vol. IX No. 6 (1916), Vol. X No 2 (1917), Vol. X No. 3 & 4 (1918), Vol. X No. 5 & 6 (1919-20), Vol XI No. 2 (1921), Vol. XI No. 4 (1923). Also, H.G. Tempest, Tombstone Inscriptions in St. Nicholas Churchyard Dundalk, 1944 kept in the vestry of the church (with a typescript in Louth County Reference Library, Roden Place, Dundalk). For details of inscriptions on memorials INSIDE the church see Noel Ross, 'Memorial Inscriptions in St. Nicholas' Parish Church, Dundalk' in JCLAHS Vol. XXV No. 4, 2004, pps. 475-483.

Dundalk: Seatown - 'Record of Inscriptions on Headstones and Slabs in Seatown Cemetery' in Tempest's Annual 1967. Recorded by members of the Old Dundalk Society and catalogued by Patrick F. Power. And 'Additional Gravestone inscriptions from Seatown Graveyard' in Tempest's Annual 1972

[Dundalk - Roman Catholic Burials 1790 - 1802, NLI, ref. P5595]”

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The link you see under the Dundalk: Castletown submission referencing the “Faughart Historical Properties Preservation Society” website appears to be a broken link, but I’ll have more on Castletown inscriptions later in this reply. You’ll also see the entry for Dundalk: Seatown, and references to “Headstones and Slabs in Seatown Cemetery' in Tempest's Annual 1967,” and “Additional Gravestone inscriptions from Seatown Graveyard' in Tempest's Annual 1972.”

I found that these publications are available at the Louth County Library in Dundalk. You can view catalog entries for several year’s worth of Tempest Dundalk Annual publications at the following Louth County Library link: https://is.gd/sninSh

The homepage for the Louth County Library can be found at: https://is.gd/DEM3gK

When you go to Dundalk in early May you can visit the County Library on Roden Place and ask for Tempest’s Annual 1967 and Tempest’s Annual 1972, to see what cemetery inscriptions have been published. You can also contact the library by email before you go to see if a librarian would be kind enough to browse these publications in search of any Connolly and Hoey headstones in the Seatown Cemetery. The email address is: Libraryhelpdesk@louthcoco.ie

You can also ask the librarian if there is a local historian you can talk to when you arrive in Dundalk, to talk about Seatown and perhaps give you a more thorough history of this area of Dundalk. Hopefully, you’ll receive a response from a librarian there.

A Google Map shows that the Seatown portion of Dundalk is just north of the library in Roden Place: https://is.gd/wBMd3x

For a Google Street View of the Library, see: https://is.gd/CQpyVA

For a Google Street View of Seatown, go to: https://is.gd/1QXDIT

Also Joe, I accessed the Find A Grave website for Dundalk and surrounding area and found there are a number of cemeteries where researchers or descendants of deceased ancestors submitted grave stone inscription entries. Find A Grave, as you probably know, doesn’t include all the inscriptions on headstones that may be located in each individual cemetery, but only includes inscriptions by those who took the time to post the information from headstones for that particular graveyard.

Find A Grave for Dundalk, Louth includes the following cemeteries:

Ballymascanlon
St. Fursey's Church Cemetery
Dundalk Cemetery, No
Blackrock/Haggardstown Old Cemetery
Castletown New Cemetery
Castletown Old Graveyard:
Dundalk Presbyterian Church Graveyard
St. Patrick's Church, Dundalk
Kane Old Graveyard
Parish Church of St. Nicholas Churchyard
Saint Patrick's Cemetery
St. Joseph's Redemptorist Church
Saint Leonard's Garden, Seatown, Dundalk, County Louth
St. Patrick's Dowdallshill Cemetery:
St. Paul's Church of Ireland (Haynestown)
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In accessing each cemetery link at Find A Grave, I found there are four cemeteries with submissions for Connolly and or Hoey grave markers. For example:

Blackrock/Haggardstown Old Cemetery
Rose Connolly Hardy
BIRTH 2 Apr 1841
Emyvale, County Monaghan, Ireland
DEATH 20 Oct 1913 (aged 72)
Blackrock, County Louth, Ireland
BURIAL Blackrock/Haggardstown Old Cemetery
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Castletown New Cemetery
Cyril Hoey
BIRTH unknown
DEATH 7 Sep 1998
Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland
BURIAL Castletown New Cemetery
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Castletown Old Graveyard: 12 Connolly Burials. See: https://is.gd/08lc3Z

Castletown Old Graveyard: 18 Hoey Burials. See: https://is.gd/Ijpzcs
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Saint Patrick’s Cemetery

Christina Connolly
BIRTH unknown
DEATH 3 Jan 1990
Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland
BURIAL Saint Patrick's Cemetery

and

Sr Mary Oliver Connolly
BIRTH unknown
DEATH 12 Jul 1967
BURIAL Saint Patrick's Cemetery
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I was surprised to see so many Connolly and Hoey submissions in the Castletown Old Graveyard and am wondering if some your immigrant ancestors’ familyly members who remained in Dundalk may have migrated the short distance from Seatown to Castletown sometime during the 19th or 20th centuries.

A Google Map shows that Castletown, by the shortest modern day route, is only 1.9 miles north of Seatown, Dundalk: https://is.gd/2uyOiP

The following link will bring you to a Google Street View of Castletown, Dundalk: https://is.gd/1S9bcM

For Google Map of the Castletown Cemetery, go to: https://is.gd/c6wbPU

For a Google Street View of the Castletown Cemetery, go to: https://is.gd/pspcdi

If you go back to the beginning of this reply to the “County Louth Memorial Inscriptions,” at the jbhallfreeservers.com website, you’ll see the last entry for Dundalk includes the following:
[Dundalk - Roman Catholic Burials 1790 - 1802, NLI, ref. P5595]

This is actually a link which takes you to a page of Catholics, listed alphabetically, buried in Dundalk, though not where in Dundalk they were interred. The link can be found at:
http://jbhall.clahs.ie/Collon%20-%20Louth%20Burials.htm#DUNDALK

Referenced with each burial entry are the page numbers in the National Library of Ireland (NLI) Catholic death/burial registers for Dundalk where the burials can be found:

Scrolling down the page will take you to the following Connollys (and alternate spellings of the surname) buried in Dundalk in the late 1790s and early 1800s:

Connelly Berd, 1792, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Connelly John, 1792, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Connely John, 1802, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Connely Nicholas, 1797, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Connely Rose, 1797, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Connery Michl, 1822, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Connolly Patrick, 1792, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Conolly John, 1794, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Conolly Peter, 1822, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
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Scrolling down the page to the Letter H, will bring you to the Hoey (and alternate spellings of the surname), burials in Dundalk:

Hoey Eliza, 1792, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Hoey Martin, 1797, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Hoey Patt, 1801, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
Hoye Margaret, 1802, Dundalk R.C., NLI. P5595
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For an index as well as transcriptions of Connolly deaths/burials back to 1796, which you can utilize to then access copies of the original death records at the National Library of Ireland, go to the Find My Past links at:

https://is.gd/JKBFVk

https://is.gd/VAo6Dg

For Hoey indexes and transcription of Dundalk deaths/burials back to 1792, go to the Find My Past link at: https://is.gd/zkCF65

On another matter, in your initial query to the XO Message Board, you had asked if there were any buildings in Seatown from the era of your Connolly and Hoey ancestors. To find out I went to the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage/Buildings of Ireland website.

I found at least three items that may be of interest to you concerning 2 buildings and an historic ruin, called St. Leonard’s Garden in Seatown. Seatown is not to be confused with nearby Seatown Place.

See the following links:

http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH&…

http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH&…

http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH&…

You can also view each of the Seatown locations on a map at each of the above links by clicking on, “View location on map.” You can also access additional images of each site. For example, to view more images of Saint Leonard's Garden, Seatown, go to the following link: https://is.gd/lIIYks

One of the photos from the above link shows a plaque that notes the Seatown Cemetery at St. Leonard’s Garden had been in use as a cemetery until the year 1896.

To view Seatown and the graveyard near the “Free Library” on another Ordnance Survey Map from the 1888 to 1913 time period, go to the following link: http://bit.ly/2Btmumr

Also concerning maps I found the Seatown portion of Dundalk on an Ordnance Survey Map from the 1837 to 1841 time period at the GeoHive website. To view the map, which also shows the location of the old graveyard, go to: http://bit.ly/2TNEZsW

At the bottom, just left of center of the map you’ll see the R.C. Chapel, located just off Roden Place, to the left of the distillery. This is St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral. A Google Map shows the Cathedral is one-half mile south of Seatown: https://is.gd/iyV8RR

For a Google Street View of St. Patrick’s see: https://is.gd/6owaWd

Your Connolly and Hoey ancestors may have worshipped at St. Patrick, as it was opened in 1842. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Church,_Dundalk

Another nearby Catholic Church was situated on Chapel Lane and Wrightsons Lane. For another view of Dundalk on the old 1837 to 1841 Ordnance Survey Map showing the chapel just north of Seatown, go to: http://bit.ly/2BwaIIj

The site on the map is labeled as “R.C. Chap.”

By the time the 1888 to 1913 map was produced this R.C. Chapel was no longer situated on the corner of Chapel Lane and Wrightsons Lane. The Saint Nicholas Catholic Church, on Nicholas and Church Streets, had been built just north of the Saint Nicholas Church of Ireland, also located on Church Street. You can see the Saint Nicholas R.C. Church and the Saint Nicholas Church of Ireland on another section of the 1888 to 1913 map from GeoHive at: http://bit.ly/2Bwhde0

You can read a description of the Saint Nicholas Catholic Church (built circa 1860) and access its location on a map at the National Inventory of Architectural heritage/Buildings of Ireland website link at: http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH&…

It’s also possible your Connolly and Hoey ancestors had worshipped at the Saint Nicholas Church.

For a Google Map showing the location of the Saint Nicholas Catholic Church in Dunndalk, see: https://is.gd/JwcxXp

For a Google Street Views of the Church go to: https://is.gd/GuEFsZ

As a point of amusement, what would a Catholic Church be in Ireland without a pub (the red building) and an off license liquor store (the pink building) just across the street: https://is.gd/5IV1Sb

On a more serious note I found that a Patrick Connolly was enumerated twice in Dundalk in an Irish property tax record known as Griffiths Valuation. Griffiths Valuation, was conducted in the 32 counties of Ireland between 1847 and 1864. The valuation for County Louth was completed by the year 1854

Unlike a census, Griffiths Valuation did not enumerate individual members of a family, such as husband, wife, and children in a household residence. Those named in the valuation were individuals who leased property. Each person who paid to lease the property was called an “Occupier.” The other person listed in Griffiths Valuation was the person who owned the property, or who worked as the middleman for the owner. This person was called the “Immediate Lessor.”

You can access Griffiths Valuation transcriptions and original copies for free at the askaboutireland website link at: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml

The two entries Patrick Connolly may refer to the same individual, or could pertain to two different Occupiers with the same name. One Patrick Connolly was living in Seatown, while the other was on Clonbrassil Street. The Griffiths Valuation transcription for Patrick Connolly of Seatown is below:

No. and Letters of Reference to Map: 58
Civil Parish: Dundalk
Townland: Town Parks, Town of Dundalk, Seatown
Occupier: Patrick Connolly
Immediate Lessor: Catherine Connolly
Description of Tenement: House
Area of Land: 0 Acres, 0 Roods, 0 Perches
Rateable Annual Valuation of Land: -
Rateable Annual Valuation of Buildings: 10 Shillings
Total Annual Valuation of Rateable Property: 10 Shillings
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Griffiths Valuation shows that Patrick Connolly leased a house from an Immediate Lessor named Catherine Connolly, who was probably related to him and who was probably an agent for the actual owner of the house. The house was situated at 58 Seatown and was valued at 10 Shillings. Patrick would not have paid a tax on this lease as only those leases valued over 5 Pounds were subject to the tax.

If you access Griffiths Valuation for Seatown you’ll also see that Catherine Connolly is enumerated at 57 Seatown. Her Immediate Lessor was the Earl of Roden, who was probably the owner of her house and Patrick’s house. Griffiths valuation also shows that at 37 Seatown, 55 Seatown, and 68 Seatown, are Occupiers named Thomas Connolly. These probably do refer to the same individual leasing property in Seatown.

Below is the Griffiths Valuation entry for Patrick Connolly at 107 Clonbrassil Street, Dundalk. He leased a house, offices and yard from an Immediate Lessor name Rev. George Bull, who may have been the Church of Ireland priest at Saint Nicholas’s Church of Ireland. An office in a Griffiths Valuation record could refer to outbuildings such as barns, stables, blacksmith shops, piggeries, etc.

Patrick’s lease was valued at 24 Pounds, which was quite a sum of money and may indicate that the property he leased was quite substantial. Compare that value with the 10 Shilling’s value of Patrick Connolly’s lease on Seatown Street:

No. and Letters of Reference to Map: 107
Civil Parish: Dundalk
Townland: Town Parks, Town of Dundalk, Clonbrassil Street
Occupier: Patrick Connolly
Immediate Lessor: Rev. George Bull
Description of Tenement: House, offices, and yard
Area of Land: 0 Acres, 0 Roods, 0 Perches
Rateable Annual Valuation of Land: -
Rateable Annual Valuation of Buildings: 24 Pounds
Total Annual Valuation of Rateable Property: 24 Pounds
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For a Google Map showing the location of Clonbrassil Street in Dundalk, see: https://is.gd/7MxRmt

I next looked for but didn’t find any Occupiers named Hoey in Griffiths Valuation leasing property in Dundalk proper. But I did find that a Patrick Hoey, as well as an Edmund, Nicholas, John, Peter, Eliza and Anne Hoey, all leased property in the townland of Marshes Upper, in the Dundalk Civil Parish. Marshes Upper at the time was a suburb of Dundalk, though a modern Google Map appears to show it is now a part of Dundalk Town itself, as it’s located, via Hoey’s Lane, 2.2 miles south of Dundalk Centre: https://is.gd/OGJANX

You can access the Hoeys in Griffiths Valuation by going to the Ask About Ireland website.

You can view Marshes Upper on an Ordnance Survey Map from the 1837 to 1841 time period at the GeoHive website link at: http://bit.ly/2TM9Zd9

If you pan the map downward to go north, you’ll come first to Marhses Lower, and then Dundalk just to the northwest.

For a Google Street View of Hoey’s Lane, see: https://is.gd/IGqClp

The next search involved seeing if I could find any Dundalk directory listings for the early to mid-19th century. I actually located quite a few listings that include the names Connolly and Hoey who were living in Dundalk during that time period. These were mainly uncovered at the jbhall website links. For example, I found a Dundalk, Louth Freeholders List for the year 1822, showing several Connollys living in Seatown, as well as Hoeys in Seatown and the “Merches,” which I believe refers to the Marshes Upper or perhaps Marshes Lower. This list comes from: http://jbhall.clahs.ie/1822_freeholders.htm

As you’ll see there were Connollys and Hoeys in Seatown as early as 1822. Four of the five Hoey Freeholders were living in the “Merches,” which I take to be the alternate spelling for the Marshes.

Please see below:

Louth Freeholders 1822

Name (Surname-Given Name); Place of Abode; Situation of Freehold; Landlords' Names; Registry (Place/date dd/mm/yyyy); Barony; Value; Names of Life or Lives or other Tenure

Connolly John; Seatown; Dundalk; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 01/08/1820; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; John McClintock Esq.
Connolly Nicholas; Seatown; Lower Seatown; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 12/04/1820; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; Matthew Fortescue Esq.
Connolly Patrick; Seatown; Seatown; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 10/08/1816; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; John McClintock Esq.
Connolly Patrick; Seatown; Seatown, Dundalk; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 07/10/1817; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; William Foster McClintock Esq.
Connolly Peter; Seatown; Dundalk; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 01/08/1820; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; John McClintock Esq.
Connolly Terence; Seatown; Seatown; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 19/08/1816; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; Faithful Fortescue Esq.

Hoey Lawrence; The Merches; The Merches; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 20/04/1814; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; George Prince of Wales, Duke of York and Duke of Clarence
Hoey Martin; Seatown; Lower Seatown; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 11/04/1820; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; Matthew Fortescue Esq.
Hoey Matthew; The Merches; The Merches; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 20/04/1814; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; -
Hoey Patrick; The Merches; The Merches; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 20/04/1814; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; George Prince of Wales, Duke of York and Duke of Clarence
Hoey Patrick; Seatown; Seatown; Earl of Roden; Dundalk 19/08/1816; Upper Dundalk; 40/-; Faithful Fortescue Esq.
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The following directory listing are for the 1832 Borough of Dundalk Voters' List located at: http://jbhall.clahs.ie/1832_dundalk_voters.htm

This list records voters alphabetically by surname and includes 3 voters named Connolly and 2 voters named Hoey. Included are occupations and addresses of the Connolly and Hoey voters in Dundalk:

1832 Borough of Dundalk Voters' List

Name. Occupation, Address, Note (if applicable)

Connolly James, Shopkeeper, Church street, Dundalk
Connolly John, Shopkeeper, Church street, Dundalk
Connolly Patrick, Harness Maker, Park street, Dundalk

Hoey Thomas, Baker, Market square, Dundalk
Hoey William, Carpenter, Jocelyn street, Dundalk
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The following is for the 1833-1840 Dundalk Union £10 Valuations, showing only 1 Connolly with a property valuation over £10. This is for Patrick Connolly on Clanbrassil Street. I believe this is the same Patrick Connolly enumerated on Clanbrassil Street in Griffiths Valuation seen earlier. This comes from: http://jbhall.clahs.ie/1833-40_dundalk_union_valuations.htm

1833-1840 Dundalk Union £10 Valuations

Name, Surname, Address, Borough/Barony, Description of Property, Valuation, Date of Registry, Comment

Patrick Conolly Clanbrassil-street Dundalk House £30 1835
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I next uncovered the 1837 Property Valuations of £5 and Over at the jbhall website link at: http://jbhall.clahs.ie/1837_dundalk_valuations.htm

I found three people named “Connelly” in the property valuation list residing in Seatown, including Pat, John, and Catherine. See below:

1837 Dundalk Property Valuations (£5 and over)

Property Number, Name (Title), Street, Valuation, Comment]

21, Connelly, Pat, Seatown, £5
52, Connelly, John, Seatown, £6
54, Connelly, Catherine, Seatown, £5

Other Connellys, and also Hoeys in the Dundalk Property Valuation for 1837 include:

76, Connelly, Thomas, Bridge-street, £25
8, Connolly, John, Church-street, £20
38, Connelly, James, Church-street, £50
57, Connelly, Terence, Jocelyn-street, [£15], [Valuation is £15 for numbers 57, 58 & 59 Jocelyn-street combined]
58, Connelly, Terence, Jocelyn-street, [£15], [Valuation is £15 for numbers 57, 58 & 59 Jocelyn-street combined]
59, Connelly, Terence, Jocelyn-street, [£15], [Valuation is £15 for numbers 57, 58 & 59 Jocelyn-street combined]
31, Connelly, Peter, Market-street, £6
9, Connelly, - (Mrs.), Wellington-place, £16

21, Hoey, Rose, Clanbrassil-street, £5
4, Hoey, Cashel, Earl-street, £50
44, Hoey, William, Jocelyn-street, £10
63, Hoey, Pat, Jocelyn-street, £8
3, Hoey, Thomas, Market-square, £7
43, Hoey, John, Market-street, £7
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Below are Connollys and Hoeys in the 1837 Dundalk Householders with valuations of property over £5. This was also uncovered at the jbhall website link at: http://jbhall.clahs.ie/1837_dundalk_householders.htm

This list initially comes from the Valuation Office House Books, and in part from the Tempests Annual for 1931:

1837 Dundalk Householders Valuation £5 & over

Connolly Catherine, Seatown
Connolly James, Church Street
Connolly John, Church Street
Connolly [Mrs.], Wellington Place
Connolly Patrick, Clanbrassil Street
Connolly Terence, Jocelyn Street
Connolly Thomas, Bridge Street

Hoey -, Barrack Street
Hoey Cashel, Earl Street
Hoey James, Dublin Street
Hoey Patt, Jocelyn Street
Hoey Rose, Clanbrassil Street
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I next went to the ancestry.com website to see what Dundalk directory listing were available there. I found an 1856 Dundalk directory listing for a Patrick Connolly at 95 Clonbrassil Street. He is shown to have been an apothecary. I believe this may be the same Patrick Connolly enumerated in Griffiths Valuation from 1854, though in Griffiths Valuation his lease was located at 107 Clonbrassil Street. The 1856 directory listing is attached to this reply.

I also found Dundalk directories for the year 1886, which, as you know, would have been several years after Peter Connolly left Ireland in the 1860s. These directory listings are from Henry Bassett’s Guide and Directory. The directory lists four Connollys, living at 1 Park St.; Bridget St.; Brunswick Row; and Quay Rd. I’ve attached the page with the Connolly listings in Bassett’s to this reply.

Bassett’s Directory listings also show Hoeys living in Roden Place, and Clonbrassil Street, Dundalk and additionally residing in Marshes and Marshes Upper. This directory entry is also attached to this reply.

A Google Map shows that Clonbrassil Street and Roden Place are only 1/3rd mile from each other in Dundalk: https://is.gd/dRsIiO

Roden Place is just north of the Louth County Library, and Louth County Museum, as you’ll see on the Google Map.

Joe, I wish you the best of luck in finding more information about your Connolly and Hoey ancestors, and I hope you have a fantastic time in Ireland.

Dave

Dave,

Thank you for all the great information. And I will definitely contact the Louth County library before our trip.

Joe

 

Hi Joe,

I know it's been 4 years since you posted this... However I am doing research for my boyfriend who is also related to Peter Connolly, son of Patrick and Anne Joey. I am just curious if you found out anymore when you were in Ireland?Many thanks!

Dabparis

Sorry for the typo...Anne Hoey.

Not much more. But seeing the town and the street where they lived was awesome!