Pooks Hole

Larry:

See the attached article and in particularly the second paragraph. http://www.libraryireland.com/CIL/PWJoyceNames.php

Likely Pooks Hole may be the current day Puckstown.

Possibly someone from Co. Louth may have more to add.

Roger McDonnell

Very interesting. Thanks, Roger.    :)

Larry:

Please ignore. I'm doing a test for IrelandXO back in Co. Galway.

Roger

Larry at this stage I am not sure what is going on and if the query or answer are genuine. I have a list of families for the Dunleer area in the 1850s from a landlords census done on his holding if you have a family name, includes some who went to America and Australis.

Regards

Pat

Pat:

My first comment to Larry's post was genuine. You will note that I was hoping that someone from Co. Louth could help with Larry's query.

 My second comment was a test that Laura Colleran in Ireland XO HQ asked me to make to help correct one of the existing  program problems with the new Ireland XO web site.

Roger McDonnell

Pat:

Thanks. The first name I would be interested in would be the name MCCABE. Also, Hearty, Mullen, Milen, Miles, Myles and Murry. I have tracked my family back to a John McCabe, who was in Cookspark in the late 1700s and early 1800s. My McCabes show up in a number of Mosstown townlands over the 1800s and into the 1900s: Cookspark, Mosstown (not sure if North or South), Puckstown, Knockaleva and Whiteriver.

Any help would be appreciated.

Larry

Hi Larry sorry for delay in replying but life often gets in the way of hobbies. Firstly the census I am talking about was by the landlord Frederick Foster whose family played a part in Irish History and appears to have been taken in 1853 to see who had land to sustain them and others were given assisted passage to the America or Australia, 38 families are listed and one Peter McCabe aged 37, wife Bridget aged 22 and son John age 1. It says they were supported by a farm, no size mentioned. Ireceived the copied extract (poor enough photo copy at a talk given by the Dundalk Library). Link here http://www.louthcoco.ie/en/Services/Library/Genealogy-Research-Sources/ They will do some research for a small fee if you have a specific I think.

I am not a local as I live here but not born here but the other names you give are found locally, some are unusual on a national level but found here. I know some people with the names you mention but they are not into genealogy. The name you spell Milen is spelled here Milne in case it is not a typo. The other names bar Murry are local to Drogheda here about 8 miles south of Dunleer. I have a Murray in my own line in another part of the country and it is a tricky name as it is found everywhere but not exactly common.

Here is a site that carries some grave inscriptions from all over Louth and is being constantly updated. See http://www.jbhall.freeservers.com/ also some local history sites for Dunleer and Collon nearby. The Dunleer site does not answer genealogy queries. http://www.midlouthhistory.com/ and http://www.collonhistoricalsociety.com/ The landlord Foster lived in Collon. There is also a member site that costs a yearly fee for Louth History, €15 annually I think as I keep threatening to join myself. It has a store fo articles about Louth http://www.clahs.com/events.htm

Sorry if the sites mean little to you but I find social history interesting as it gives an idea of what went on at the time.

I will ask locally some people of the names you mention but experience teaches me that I may not learn much but hey there is a chance.

Good Luck

Pat