Caherhue/Carhoo and Carhue in Dysert parish

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The Tithe Applotment Books show two townlands in Dysert, one called Caherhue, which is associated with Edward Synge, and one called Carhue, which was in the south of the parish. In the making of the 1842 Ordnance Survey map, Caherhoo became an official townland, named Carhoo, but Carhue was not. It was subsumed into the townland of Kilcross/Kilcurrish. The name “Carhue” continued to be used, however, and was given as the address in many of the baptism records in Dysert-Ruan parish. On a couple of occasions the priest adds the word “Lower”, as in the baptism of John of Thady Kennedy and Margaret Keane on 5th May 1875, where he gives the address as “Carhulower”.
In 1910, a Norah Hogan applied for the old age pension on the grounds that she was born before the 1841 census. She gives her parents as Michael [Hogan, I assume] and Mary O’Neill and gives their address as Carhoo; Ballygriffey S., Dysert. This Carhoo must have been the Kilcurrish Carhue. I wonder if the “official” townlands had already been decided by 1841 – maybe not.

Sheila

* Happily, Norah was found to have been listed in the 1841 census as Norry aged 14 – unfortunately no other members of her family are listed. http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... /index.htm