Drumswords: Difference between revisions

**Drumswords**
	Drumswords
Irish grid reference	H466315
District	Fermanagh District Council
County	County Fermanagh
Constituent country	Northern Ireland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ENNISKILLEN
Postcode district	BT92
Dialling code	028 677 51
Police	Northern Ireland
Fire	Northern Ireland
Ambulance	Northern Ireland
European Parliament	Northern Ireland
UK Parliament	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
NI Assembly	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
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Latest revision as of 14:58, 3 December 2010

Drumswords is a townland in South-East County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Area 81:2:36

Etymology

Roughly translated Drumswords means "ridge of the diligence".

Old Forms

1609 - dromseird
1613 - Dromsure
1641? - Dromsare
1641? - Dromsowre
1641? - Dromsude
1641? - Dromsur
1641? - Dromsure
1751 - Drumswords
1833 - Druim Súndais

Its worth noting that local people talk about Drumswords being the site of a "Holy well"

1823 Church of Ireland Census

The following is an extract from a survey of the North-West Division of Clones Parish.

Name	Sons	Daughters
Elliott, John	0	0

Griffiths Valuation 1862

Occupier	Lessor	Tenement
John Elliott	Rev John Richardson	House, Offices & Land
John McManus	Rev John Richardson	House
-	-	Roman Catholic Chapel, Caretakers’ house, Office & graveyard
Patrick McCollin	Free	House

1901 Census

Head of Family	Landholder (if different)
Mary A. Maguire	Hugh McDonald
Hugh McDonald
Roman Catholic Chapel	Hugh McDonald

Surnames in 2005

McMahon
West
McDermott
O’Reilly

Religion

St McCartans, Drumswords

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 ==Etymology==
-Drumswords is believed to mean "Holy well"
+Roughly translated Drumswords means "ridge of the diligence".
+Old Forms
+* 1609 - dromseird
+* 1613 - Dromsure
+* 1641? - Dromsare
+* 1641? - Dromsowre
+* 1641? - Dromsude
+* 1641? - Dromsur
+* 1641? - Dromsure
+* 1751 - Drumswords
+* 1833 - Druim Súndais
+Its worth noting that local people talk about Drumswords being the site of a "Holy well"
+==1823 Church of Ireland Census==
+The following is an extract from a survey of the North-West Division of Clones Parish.
+{|class="wikitable"
+!Name!!Sons!!Daughters
+|-
+|Elliott, John||0||0
+|-
+|}
 ==Griffiths Valuation 1862==
-Occupier…………………………….Lessor
+{|class="wikitable"
-John Elliott………………………………… Rev John Richardson               H Os & L
+!Occupier!!Lessor!!Tenement
-John McManus…………………………….. Rev John Richardson               House
+|-
-R.C. Chapel, caretakers’ house,
+|John Elliott||Rev John Richardson||House, Offices & Land
- office & graveyard…………………………         exemptions
+|-
-Patrick McCollin………………………….. .Free                                           House
+|John McManus||Rev John Richardson||House
+|-
+| - || - ||Roman Catholic Chapel, Caretakers’ house, Office & graveyard
+|-
+|Patrick McCollin||Free||House
+|-
+|}
 ==1901 Census==
-Head of Family……………………..Landholder if different
+{|class="wikitable"
-Mary A. Maguire………………………….. Hugh McDonald
+!Head of Family!!Landholder (if different)
-Hugh McDonald……………………………Hugh McDonald
+|-
-R.C.Church………………………………... Hugh McDonald
+|Mary A. Maguire||Hugh McDonald
+|-
+|Hugh McDonald||
+|-
+|Roman Catholic Chapel||Hugh McDonald
+|-
+|}
 ==Surnames in 2005==
- McMahon          West          McDermott          O’Reilly
+*McMahon
+*West
+*McDermott
+*O’Reilly
-==St McCartans Chapel==
+==Religion==
-On the road to Clones a short distance from [[Dernawilt]] cross roads is the town land of Drumswords, the site of St. McCartan’s Roman Catholic Church.  About the middle of the 1700’s a little thatched chapel was erected in the townland of [[Aghadrumsee]] on the farm of a man called Blakely.  In the year 1822, the then parish priest of Clones, a Father Duffy, began building in the neighbouring townland of Drumswords.  The Church was not completed till 1829 being first used on the 1st November of that year.  It was an oblong building with a gallery at each side and the altar in the centre of the sidewall.  There was a two roomed sacristy, with a second storey, which served for a time, as a residence for a priest.  The church built by Father Duffy was stripped of its roof on the night of the high wind, 6th January, 1839.  It is remarkable that this is the only story that has survived about that particular freak wind storm.
-A later priest, Father Keown C.C. who died in 1857, was buried there.  The ground for this cemetery was given by the Elliott family of Drumswords and the gift is still recorded on an old stone there: ‘God bless Mr John Elliott that gave us this place’ (p   )
+* [[St McCartans, Drumswords]]