McIntyre Farm, Lislea

McIntyre Farm, Lislea
Farm vacant in 1998

About Lawrence McIntyre and Mary Ginty

About Lawrence McIntyre and Mary Ginty

Lawrence McIntyre was baptized (and possibly born) on August 12, 1854 in Lislea, Kilmacteige Parish, County Sligo, Ireland. His parents are listed as Michael McIntyre and Mary McIntyre on his baptismal record. No other information about his parents is known with the exception of a probable cousin, Patrick McIntyre, who came to the U.S in 1863.

Lawrence's wife, Mary Ginty, was born September 3, 1850 in Carrowbeg, Killasser, County Mayo, Ireland. Her parents are John Ginty and Margaret Convey(Conway). In addition to their daughter Mary, they had three other children: Margaret (Bridget), Catherine and Patrick.

Lawrence and Mary were married in Killasser on March 1, 1877 and resided in Lislea where they raised their family. They had six known children, all born in Ireland. Thomas Joseph (1878-1939); Catherine (1879-c1915); Mary (1881-1927); Bridget (1881-c1945); Lawrence J. (1890-1943); and John (c1892-?). Lawrence and Mary died in Ireland in the early 1930s.

The descendents of Patrick McIntyre (c1831-1901), mentioned above, and his wife Bridget Stevens (c1833-1908) are also represented on this McIntyre-Ginty Blog. Patrick's farm in Lislea, County Sligo, was to the right of the house in the photo at the top of this page. A separate blog has also been created for Patrick and Bridget and may be viewed at www.mcintyrestevens.blogspot.com

Saturday, July 9, 2011

1911 Irish Census - McIntyre/Ginty

The 1911 Census of Ireland lists Laurence McIntyre and his wife Mary (Ginty) with two of their children Bridget, age 25, and John, age 19.  It notes that all but Mary were born in County Sligo, she was born in County Mayo.  At the time of the census, they were living on the farm in Lislea, Kilmacteige Civil Parish, County Sligo.


The census states Laurence and Mary have been married 34 years.  I have their marriage record from Killasser Parish, County Mayo with the date of March 1, 1877 which agrees with the information provided.  In addition, it states Mary had six children with five currently living.  Their daughter Catherine died young.  Although I don't have a death record for Catherine, all the rest of the children lived beyond 1911, so it must be Catherine who is deceased in 1911.

Laurence could not write and did not sign the census, but his son John was the witness to his "mark."  My belief is that it is John McIntyre's signature at the bottom of the census.

On associated 1911 Census sheets -- Form B. 1 - House and Building Return and Form B. 2 - Return of Out-Offices and Farm-Steadings -- it notes the McIntyres had three out-buildings including a stable, a cow house and a piggery.  The house itself had either a wood or thatched roof, was composed of only two rooms and had two windows in the front of the home.   Certainly a modest home in which to raise six children.

Daughter, Bridget, married P. Billy Haran and lived on the farm raising five daughters:  Mary (Crane), Annie (Brennan), Tessie (Cafferty), Bridget (Heffernan) and Josephine (O'Malley/Pointing).  Their daughter, Tessie, married Dominic Cafferty and they then lived on the farm.  Dominic died in the early 1980s.  They had no children.  In the 1990s, Tessie sold the farm to a neighbor and moved to live with her niece, daughter of Bridget (Heffernan), in Cheekpoint, County Waterford.  I am told she eventually went to England, probably to be near her sisters, where she died in 2004.

So, after more than 150 years, no longer were there any descendants of Michael McIntyre (c1830-a1854) living on the farm.

Killasser Civil Parish, Barony of Gallen, County Mayo, 1837

Mary Ginty was from Killaser Civil Parish.

Killaser, a parish, in the barony of Gallen, in county Mayo, and province of Connaught, 6 miles (E. N. E.) from Foxford, on the River Moy and the road to Swinford; containing 6,581 inhabitants.  This parish was the scene of a sanguinary battle between the native septs of the Jordans and the Rowans, at a spot since called Lugnafulla, or "the valley of blood". It comprises 10,000 statue acres, of which about 6, 000 are arable and the remainder principally bog and mountain; the land is of indifferent quality and is in many places covered with rocks of great size; some of the eastern portion is more productive, but agriculture is in a very backward state; there is a large tract of irreclaimable bog.  It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Achonry, forming part of the union of Templemore; the rectory is impropriate in the representatives of the late Roger Palmer, Esq.  The titles amount to L512.0.4., which is equally divided between the impropriator and the vicar, there are two chapels, situated respectively at Calla and Boulebee, both well built and roofed with slate.  About 90 children are taught in a public school; and there are five private schools, in which are about 450 children.  There are several Danish forts in the western portion of the parish; at Calla is a small lake, in which is an island presenting appearances of fortifications, said to have been inhabited by the sept of the Rowans; at Erbull and are the ruins of an Old Castle; and there are ancient burial places at Killasser, Blackpatch and Calla.

Extracted from A Topographical Dictionary of Mayo, Samuel Lewis, 1837.