Ballynamuddagh

I have been tracing my family back.   The furthest I am sure of is my great-grandfather Thomas Sullivan, born probably 1818 or 1821.  I would like to be able to confirm a further connection. 

My assumption is that Daniel Sullivan, born 1734 and a farmer with his own land, married a Mary, and they lived in Ballynamuddagh, a townland just west of Redmond Hill between Eyrecourt and Laurencetown.  Daniel qualified as a ‘loyal Catholic’ when he took an oath of allegiance to the King at a court session held at Eyrecourt on 8 October 1793; he died in 1798, after which his widow Mary remarried a Dooley.

Daniel’s sons were Timothy born 1774 and Patrick born in 1782.   Timothy married Elinor and had two sons, Daniel and John.  Patrick married another Mary, and by 1821, as the younger son, had moved away to Riverstown in King’s County six miles from Banagher; his children were Honor born in 1810, Andrew in 1816, Patrick in 1818 and Thomas in 1821.  These later moved back across the river to Esker in Galway, just half a mile outside Banagher.  Timothy died in 1830.   Over the following years Andrew remained in Esker, married Bridget and had a son Michael, dying by 1852.  My own great-grandfather Thomas, as a younger son without land or property, was inspired by the creation of the Irish Constabulary in 1836, joined it in 1840 and moved away to Co. Down, but returned briefly to renovate the family gravestone in 1884.

Does anyone now live in Ballynamuddagh?  Can they confirm any of all this? 

Mark O'Sullivan