GODFREY & COLLINS - Dunmore, Galway, Ireland (Adergoole Beg)

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I searched on the subscription site Roots Ireland but did not find any additional baptismal records or a marriage record. Dunmore RC records start in 1833. Here is a link to the parish register https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/1061  You may want to scan the register to see if you see any other records. The only Godfrey baptismal records pre-1833 are in Tuam parish and possibly you have connections to that parish. I checked the Tithe listings but no Godfrey records came up.

The 1855 Griffiths Valuation data for Co. Galway only showed one Godfrey record in the area-- a John Godfrey in Addergoole Beg. Was John a brother to Patrick?

Roger McDonnell

It would appear John is likely a relative of  Patrick.  
I did learn the following of Patrick (Pat) Godfrey and Bridget Collins  which may assist

We have located the village where the Godfrey family lived. The village of Addrigoole Beg comprised of about 110 acres in the mid 1800s. The 12  families would have only about 10 acres each on which they sowed potatoes and oats. The farm would have been rented from a landlord and the oats was used as currency to pay the rent. The homes of the cottiers would have been thatched and would have been in a cluster called a clochan.  The Greene and Connell families in the baptismal Certs  would have been neighbours. Around 1925 the Godfrey and Hession families relocated to Roscommon , between Tulsk and Castleplunkett. My source thinks the town Land was called Carranasceach.  A different Godfrey family lived on another side of Dunmore and this may be the Collins connection. There is no Collins family close to Addergoole Beg.

Check out Garrafrauns.com for more information on the locality. I will send you some pics of Addergoole Beg and where the Godfrey house stood

It would appear John is likely a relative of  Patrick.  
I did learn the following of Patrick (Pat) Godfrey and Bridget Collins  which may assist

We have located the village where the Godfrey family lived. The village of Addrigoole Beg comprised of about 110 acres in the mid 1800s. The 12  families would have only about 10 acres each on which they sowed potatoes and oats. The farm would have been rented from a landlord and the oats was used as currency to pay the rent. The homes of the cottiers would have been thatched and would have been in a cluster called a clochan.  The Greene and Connell families in the baptismal Certs  would have been neighbours. Around 1925 the Godfrey and Hession families relocated to Roscommon , between Tulsk and Castleplunkett. My source thinks the town Land was called Carranasceach.  A different Godfrey family lived on another side of Dunmore and this may be the Collins connection. There is no Collins family close to Addergoole Beg.

Check out Garrafrauns.com for more information on the locality. I will send you some pics of Addergoole Beg and where the Godfrey house stood

The spelling of the townland would be Carrownaskeagh. There are actually two townlands with that name. One in Ogulla civil parish and the other in Cloonfindlough parish. The Carranaskeagh in Ogulla only had one family in the 1901 census while the one in Cloonfinlough had seven families in 1901.

Roger