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Townlands in Durrus, listing for Kilcrohane sought:

Durrus, West Cork, Townlands

Church of Ireland, Methodist Births, in the absence of pre mid-19th century records these are from other sources and as such are subject to error:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7dtPLbsdWbCn0ZJL0Vg8bPeJ9h9PdMN_pcJDu5Nagk/edit#gid=0

Transcription of Catholic Birth Records 1822 Muintertvara (Durrus/Kilcrohane), West Cork

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Moa0qrtkLEDF74lp97zgNjsuXuX6cz-5f_jplgTfyw/edit#gid=1720947353.

The leg work which is very tedious was done by US based members of the Sheepshead DNA group and their work is acknowledged.

It is worth recalling that the register was started by Father Quin, a native of Tipperary, who also built church and schools in the area. He would not have been familiar with the names or townlands and may not have been a native Irish speaker. Most of the parents at the time would have been native speakers. This may account for the exotic versions of some of the names and townland in original.

There are a number of Church of Ireland names, Evanson, Ferguson, Lannin, Roycroft pointing to significant intermarriage in the 18th century which is now being thrown up by DNA evidence in the absence of records. In West Cork this is a tow way process most of religion changes probably occur on marriage. Most of the leading’Catholic’ and Protestant’ names have members in both religions. The genetic mix is far more prevalent then is commonly supposed.

The Church of Ireland records from St. James were lost in the destruction of the Public Records in Dublin 1922.

The records are available in crude form on line at:

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/captcha.jsp

Revised 1822 Records:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Moa0qrtkLEDF74lp97zgNjsuXuX6cz-5f_jplgTfyw/edit#gid=1720947353