Cassie O’Connor (1883-1951) was brought up with her
maternal grandparents – Francis McCrossan (1826-1907) and Anne McCrossan (ne Mullan)
(1826-1895).
c1860, when Griffith’s Valuation was carried out in our
area, Francis (my g-g-grandfather) was already a householder in Glassmullagh.
I entered as much as I knew about Francis and found his
details in a scan of the original document:
Here’s the (readable) detail:
The website then links you to the original map. I was
looking for 2A / 2B, Francis' farm.
The map is great – you can zoom in to find what you’re
after and there’s a slider where you can merge the map with its Google Earth image…
I struck gold!
Next step was to go out there to have a look…
Still standing…but it has gone downhill a bit since Google took their snap. Maybe with a lick of paint...?
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