Lisrace
LISRACE (fort of ….. ) Area 145:3:3
Griffiths Valuation 1862
Occupier……………………....Lessor Robert Johnston……………………...Rev. John Richardson H Os & L Thomas Maines…………………….. Rev. John Richardson H Os & L James Carey………………………… Rev. John Richardson H Os & L Francis Foster………………………. Rev. John Richardson H Os & L Primitive Wesleyan Methodist Meeting House…………... Rev. John Richardson Exemptions Simon Elliott………………………....Rev. John Richardson H Os & L Thomas Wilson………………………Rev. John Richardson James Johnston……………………… Rev. John Richardson
Drumady Methodist Church 1858, built on a site between the Lacky road and a stretch of the old Dublin road coming from Mullavea/ Killyliffer. This little church was originally Primitive Wesleyan i.e. that part of the Methodist movement which believed that it should remain as an evangelistic society within the Established Church. This movement was particularly strong Monaghan/Fermanagh with Clones as its centre. That the Methodist movement should become a separate church as was the wish of urban districts where many people who became the Methodists had no strong links to the Parish church. That Drumady was Primitive Wesleyan is probably why the Rev Richardson, who was a C. of I. clergyman felt able to lease the site for the meeting house. In later years most of the C. of I. bishops and some of the clergy strongly disapproved of Methodist preachers. By 1877 the two strands of Methodism had re-united as the Methodist Church in Ireland.
1901 Census
Head of Family…………………Landholder if different Margaret Johnston Martha Johnston Edward Carey Bernard Donegan Eliza McGovern……………………….Bernard Donegan James Wilson Joseph Howe…………………………..Frank Foster of Dromady Sarah Harris…………………………....Mrs Foster of Aghnachuill
There was a shop in one of the Johnston houses kept by a Robert Johnston a brother of Martha Johnston who taught in Aghadrumsee. After their time the shop and farm was the home of another Johnston family and is now part of the Emerson farm. This was the scene of a murder the 23rd September 1980 when S/Con Ernest Johnston was shot by I.R.A. terrorists when returning home from duty.
Surnames in 2005
Farrell Wilson Lynch Moffatt
Former Residents Irwin Henry Somerville