I struggle to find living relatives in Ireland who can
help me with any family history detective work. I was aware that my father had
been left a farm by his mother – Cassie O’Connor - and that he had sold it not
very long after her death but all I knew was it was in Glassmullagh, a townland
a few miles outside Newtownstewart.
Glassmullagh is on this map of townlands, right at the
bottom, sandwiched between Dunteige and Lisnacreight.
Cassie died on 14 December 1951 in Strabane and the farm
was first advertised in the Ulster Herald on Sat Jan 5th 1952
It looks like Frank didn’t sell it first time round because it was advertised again in the Derry Journal two years later, on Fri 26th Feb 1954
I eventually found the farm
by going back a lot further in the family tree and with the help of Griffith's
Valuation and the internet. In my next post I’ll run through how I did that, if
I write it down I hopefully will remember it myself next time I need to do this!
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