Tullyvrick

Sandra O'Farrell & Antoinette Lydon

Tullyvrick is in the civil parish of Kilcummin. The civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish of Kilcummin, Galway West. In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same as is the case in the Kilcummin Oughterard area.

Tullyvrick is in the Electoral Division of Oughterard, in Civil Parish of Kilcummin, in the Barony of Moycullen, in the County of Galway

Irish Form of Name: Tulaig Bhruic – Translation: Hill of the badger.

Description:

The land in Tullyvrick is under tillage and partly flooded or bog.

Boundaries

Tullyvrick is situated in the Northern extremity of the parish of Kilcummin.

Tullyvrick borders the following other townlands:

Barrusheen to the north
Carrowmanagh to the south
Eighterard to the east
Tonwee to the west
Tullyvealnaslee to the west

Other forms of name.

Tullyvrick
Tulaig Bhruic
Tullyvrick in the Boundary Surveyor
Thulabrick in the County Map
Tuillavrick – Local
Tullavruck – Rector of Kilcummin
Badgers Height or Hillock

Thullabrick – Barony Map

Translation according to P. W. Joyce

Tul, a hill; the root-word of a number of derivatives, such as Tulach, Tullagh, Tully, Tullig, Tolly, Tulla, Tullaghan, &c, all meaning hill or hillock. Tul is often made Tula.

Area

The area contains 61 acres of land, about 30 of which is under tillage and pasture partly flooded. The remainder of the land is bog. The landlord was Thomas B. Martin.

Landlord

The landlord was Thomas B. Martin, Esq., Ballinahinch. Thomas B. Martin was a member of the Martin of Ross Family as stated in the Landed Estates Database.

Martin (Ross) – The Martin family were established beside Ross Lake in the barony of Moycullen, county Galway, from the late 16th century, where they purchased land from the O’Flahertys. They were Royalist supporters and were dispossessed of their property in the city of Galway by the Cromwellians. Robert Martin received a grant of 2,909 acres in the barony of Moycullen, by patent dated 21 Aug 1677. Jasper Martin of Ross, who died in 1700, had two sons Jasper and Richard, from whom descend the two branches of the family settled at Ross and Ballynahinch. Nicholas Martin, who died in 1811, married Elizabeth O’Hara, daughter of Robert O’Hara of Lenaboy, and according to Burke’s ”Landed Gentry”, a grandniece of James O’Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley. Their grandson, James Martin of Ross, had sixteen children from his two marriages. His daughter, Maud, married H. Callwell and they were the parents of the author, J. M. Callwell. The youngest daughter of James Martin was Violet Florence Martin of the well known literary team Somerville and Ross. The Martins of Ross owned 5,767 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. They advertised the sale of their estate in the Landed Estates’ Court in May 1885.
Martin (Ballynahinch) – A branch of the Anglo Norman family of Martin, one of the Tribes of Galway, was granted the O’Flaherty lands in the Connemara region in the mid 17th century. This family were a junior branch of the Martins of Ross and under the Acts of Settlement were granted vast estates in counties Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Clare and Sligo. By a patent dated 1698 they were confirmed in the possession of their Connemara estate known as the Manor of Claremount by King William. The Westport Estate Papers document the sale of over 27,000 acres in the baronies of Moycullen and Ballynahinch by the trustees for the sale of Colonel John Browne’s estate to John Edwards for Richard Martin in 1699. The early generations of Martins lived at Birch Hall and Dangan, in the townland of Oranhill, parish of Rahoon, near Galway city. Richard Martin, better known as ‘Humanity Dick’, was the first member of the family to be reared as a Protestant. He was a famous duellist and founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Ballynahinch Castle was built in the centre of his estate. His son Thomas Martin died in 1847 during the Famine and Thomas’s only daughter and heir, Mary Laetita, inherited a heavily encumbered estate. She married her cousin, Arthur Gonne Bell, and died in New York in 1850. The Martin estates were offered for sale in two sections in 1849. Their property close to Galway town included Dangan, Corcullen, Bushypark and Killeen. Their Connemara estate was acquired by the Law Life Assurance Society in 1852, to whom it was heavily mortgaged. In 1853 the estate of almost 200,000 acres was surveyed by Thomas Colville Scott for a prospective buyer. Richard Martin, second son of Richard ‘Humanity Dick’ Martin of Ballynahinch, is recorded as holding five townlands in the parish of Killannin, barony of Moycullen, county Galway, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation although he emigrated to Canada in 1833. He was also recorded as the occupier of Clareville, a Martin home in the village of Oughterard. Many of his descendants still reside in Canada. http://www.martinhistory.net/

The Tithe Applotment Books

About the Records

Tithes were a tax on agricultural produce which was payable by the occupiers of agricultural land. They were the main source of income for the parish clergy of the Church of Ireland (the largest Protestant church and the church established by law). However, in many parishes a large part of the tithes were ‘appropriate’, which meant that they were payable to a bishop, cathedral chapter or other ecclesiastical recipient, or were ‘impropriate’, which generally meant that they were payable to a local landowner. The parishes used in the Tithe Applotment Books are civil or Church of Ireland parishes, which often differ in name and territory from Catholic parishes, Acts of Parliament of 1823 and 1832 provided for the conversion of tithes into a fixed charge on land, and specified the average price of wheat or oats in the parish in the seven years before 1821 as the basis on which the tithes would be calculated. They also extended the application of tithes to pasture, where previously they had been levied only on tillage.

This change in the law resulted in the valuation of individual holdings in almost all parishes containing agricultural land, in order to assess the portion of the tithes for which each occupier of land would be liable. The apportionment was recorded for each Church of Ireland parish in a Tithe Composition Applotment Book. The information was collected and the amounts were calculated by two Parochial Commissioners, one of whom was appointed by the cess-payers of the parish and the other by the relevant Diocese of the Church of Ireland. This procedure was carried out in over 2,500 parishes between the years 1823 and 1837.

The Tithe Applotment Books are in a variety of formats, from a few pages sewn together to elaborately bound volumes. In most cases they are written in manuscript throughout, although some consist of manuscript entries on printed questionnaires. The information in the books is broadly uniform and generally includes at least the name of occupier; the size of holding, the valuation and the tithe payable. In some cases more detailed information is provided. Some volumes have maps and most have certificates and correspondence attached.

The sub-divisions of the parish were recorded. Some of these subdivisions, such as ploughlands, ceased to be in official use after the six inch survey of the Ordnance Survey was completed in the 1840s. Only productive land was subject to tithe, and the books usually distinguish between this tithable land and untithable land such as roads or mountains. Tithable land was in some cases classified by quality, and a money value was given to each class. In some cases the proportion of tithe payable to the rector, vicar or lay proprietor of the tithes was set out. The column for observations was sometimes completed, with information about commonage, for example.

There are a number of other points that should be noted. The acreages given in the Tithe Applotment Books are in Irish or Plantation measure, which is 1.62 times larger than statute measure. Only occupiers of land at the time of the tithe composition are recorded, so not all heads of households living in a parish at the time are included. Only rural areas are systematically covered, although inhabitants of towns who held plots of cultivable land are included. The equivalent tax in urban areas, Minister’s Money, has left few records.

The Tithe Applotment Books are an important source of information for a wide variety of researchers of pre-Famine Ireland. They provide the first surviving national list of the occupiers of land, and are used by genealogists as a partial substitute for returns of the 1821 and 1831 censuses of population, which were destroyed in 1922. They also record information on the quality of land, and provide information on pre-Ordnance Survey territorial divisions, some of which were not recognised after the 1840s.

The National Archives hold the original Tithe Applotment Books only for the twenty-six counties of the Republic of Ireland. The books for the six counties of Northern Ireland are held in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast. (http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/aboutmore.jsp)

No information found for Tullyvrick

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/results.jsp?surname=&firstname=&county=Galway&parish=Kilcummin&townland=Tullyvrick&search=Search

Information from the Down Survey Website:

The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).

Down Survey website

The Down Survey is a mapped survey. Using the Civil Survey as a guide, teams of surveyors, mainly former soldiers, were sent out under Petty’s direction to measure every townland to be forfeited to soldiers and adventurers. The resulting maps, made at a scale of 40 perches to one inch (the modern equivalent of 1:50,000), were the first systematic mapping of a large area on such a scale attempted anywhere. The primary purpose of these maps was to record the boundaries of each townland and to calculate their areas with great precision. The maps are also rich in other detail showing churches, roads, rivers, castles, houses and fortifications. Most towns are represented pictorially and the cartouches, the decorative titles, of each map in many cases reflect a specific characteristic of each barony. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/

Townland of TULLYVRICK

Down Survey Name: Mountain
1670 Owner(s): Martin, Richard (Catholic); Clanrickard, Earl of (Protestant)
County: Galway
Barony: Muckullin
Parish: Killcumyn

Griffith’s Valuation 1850’s

In Griffith’s Valuation the area is 60 acres, 3 roods and 28 perches.

Occupiers of the Land:

The occupier of the land in Tullyvrick at this time was:

John Faherty. The landlords were Directors of Law Life Assurance.

Ownership of Land and Property

John Faherty owned a house, office and land.

Annual Valuation

The total annual valuation of rateable property in Tullyvrick came to £7 10s 0d.

Land Rates: The land rates for each of the occupiers came to £7 0s 0d each.

Building Rates: The buildings were rated at 10 shillings.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&PlaceID=560229&county=Galway&barony=Moycullen&parish=Kilcummin&townland=%3Cb%3ETullyvrick%3C/b%3E

Out Offices and Land

The out office was a farm building, a cow house, piggery or barn. The land was very poor and sterile and people were always poverty-stricken. At this time most tenants were trying to eke out a living on 5acres or less and a farmer needed at least 15.3 acres to survive.

Clachan: The Irish is ‘Clochán’. A clachan was a small traditional settlement common in Ireland until the middle of the 20^th century. They usually lacked a church, post office or other formal building. The origin is unknown but it is likely that they are of ancient root most likely dating to medieval times.

They were related to the rundale system of farming. According to David Lloyd, The Great Famine 1845–1849 caused such disruption to the social system that the clachans virtually disappeared.

People living in Clachans had the support of a tight knit community.

In some cases the clachans have evolved into holiday villages or one or two houses have been taken over turning smaller houses into agricultural outhouses.

Poor Law Union Ireland

In Ireland the Poor Relief Act of 1838 divided into districts or “unions” in which the local taxable inhabitants were to be financially responsible for all paupers in the area. In 1898 the Poor Law Union was adopted as the basic administrative division in place of the civil parish and barony. Further subdivision into 828 registration districts and 3,751 district electoral divisions followed. Townlands were not arranged according to these divisions with parish and barony retained as a means to make comparisons with records gathered before 1898.

The 1838 Act

The main provisions of the 1838 Act were:

The extension of the existing Poor Law Commissioners’ powers to Ireland, with the appointment of Assistant Commissioners who were to implement the Act in Ireland.
The division of the country into Poor Law Unions based on Irish electoral divisions which were themselves made up from townlands.
The creation of a Board of Guardians for each Union, two-thirds of whom were to be elected, the other third to be appointed ex officio.
The setting up of a workhouse in each Union.
The collection of a local poor-rate to finance the system.
Assistance for emigration.

Initially, 130 Unions were created, based upon 2,049 electoral divisions. The divisions were composed of townlands, a peculiarly Irish unit, traditionally of 120 Irish acres in area. (Between 1848 and 1850, an additional 33 Unions were created by subdividing and reorganizing the boundaries of some existing Unions, particularly in the west of the country.

Boards of Guardians were elected annually on 25th March. Only rate-payers were eligible for election, which effectively disenfranchised most of the native Irish who were usually tenants at this time. Rate-payers were allowed between one and six votes depending on the size of a valuation of their property.

Townlands

A town land is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion 1169. Tullyvrick is a townland.

Population and Census Information

You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.

The Tithe Applotment Books
Griffith’s Valuation
1901 Census
1911 Census

List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants.

1901 Census Tullyvrick

This is a return of the members of the family, their Visitors, Boarders, Servants who slept or abode in their house on the night of Sunday March 31^st 1901 in Tullyvrick.

There were 3 houses listed in the Townland of Tullyvrick. The people were all Roman Catholics and they were born in County Galway.

Class of House: The class of house depended on the materials used in the roof, walls, number of rooms and number of front windows. A 1^st class house was considered the highest standard.

Walls of the houses: The walls were of stone, brick, concrete or of mud, wood or other perishable material.

Roofs: Roofs were of slate, iron, tiles, thatch, wood or other perishable material. The roofs of houses were of thatch, wood or perishable material. Most likely they were thatched as there was ample reeds for thatching in the lakes.

House Occupancy: Each of the 3 houses was occupied by one family.

The people listed as Head of the Family were also listed as the lawful Landholder of the property.

Enumerators Extract

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000840964/

House & Building Return

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000840965/

Out Office & Farm Steadings

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000840966/

House 1: John Flaherty aged 65 was head of the family. He lived with his wife Margaret aged 40. They had 4 daughters Margaret 13, Julia 10, Honor 8 and Barbara aged 6 and three sons Michael 14, Bartley 12 and Peter aged 3. John and Margaret could not read or write. The both spoke Irish and English.Young Margaret could only read. Michael and Julia could read and write and Bartley could not read or write. Honor and Barbara could only read. They all spoke both Irish and English. John was a farmer. They lived in a 3^rd class house with 1 window. Two rooms occupied 9 people. They had a cow house and a piggery.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Oughterard/Tullyvrick/1394785/

House 2: Michael McGawley aged 32 was head of the family. He lived with his wife Julia aged 28. They had 2 sons, Patrick 7 and Michael aged 2. Julia was the only person in the house that could read and write. They spoke both Irish and English. Michael was a farmer. They lived in a 3^rd class house with 1 window. One room occupied 4 persons. There were no additional outside buildings.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Oughterard/Tullyvrick/1394786/

House 3: Thomas McGawley aged 70 was head of the house. He lived with his son Peter aged 32, his daughter in law Anne aged 32, granddaughter Kate aged 6 and two grandsons Patrick 4 and Thomas aged just 2 months. Peter and Anne could read and write, Thomas was unable to read and write. They all spoke both Irish and English. They lived in a 2^nd class house with 3 front windows. Three rooms occupied 6 people. They had no additional outside buildings.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Oughterard/Tullyvrick/1394787/

Tullyvrick Census 1911

This is a return of the Members of families in Tullyvrick, their visitors, boarders and servants who slept or abode in the house on the night of Sunday the 2^nd of April 1911.

Description of the Houses

All the houses in Tullyvrick were listed as private dwellings and were built of concrete or stone. The roofs of the houses were of wood, thatch or other perishable material. Most likely they were thatched. The heads of the families were listed as the landholders. One family lived in each property. The Class of the house depended on the material used in the roof, walls, number of rooms and number of front windows. Most of the houses came under “2’ in the census form meaning that there could be 2, 3, or 4, rooms in the house.

General Information

One family lived in each of the 3 houses listed. They were all Roman Catholics and the head of the family was the landholder. There were 12 males and 7 females a total of 19 persons living in the village.

Enumerators Extract

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002435980/

House & Building Return

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002435982/

Out Office & Farm Steadings

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002435984/

House 1: Margaret Faherty, a widow, aged 58 was head of the family. Living with her at the time were her 3 sons Michael 25, Bartley 24 and Peter aged 13 and her daughter Norah aged 17. Margaret and Bartley were unable to read and write. The rest of the family could read and write. They spoke both Irish and English. Margaret had 9 children born alive and all 9 were still living at the time. Margaret was a farmer. They lived in a 4^th class house with no front windows. One room occupied 5 people. They also had a cow house.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Oughterard/Tullyvrick/471367/

House 2: Thomas McGawley, a widower, aged 84 was head of the house. He lived with his son Peter aged 43 and daughter in law Anne aged 42, his two granddaughters Kate 16 and Noney aged 8 and 3 grandsons Patrick 14, (unable to read his name) aged 6 and Bartley aged 4. Thomas was unable to read and write. The rest of the family could read and write. Anne had 7 children born alive and they were all still living. They spoke Irish and English. Thomas and his son Peter were farmers. They lived in a 2^nd class house with 3 windows. Three rooms occupied 8 people. They also had a cow house and a piggery.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Oughterard/Tullyvrick/471368/

House 3: Michael McGawley aged 40 was head of the family. He lived with his wife Julia aged 40, three sons Michael 12, Thomas 9 and Bartley aged 6 and his daughter Margaret aged 3. Michael was unable to read and write. His wife and older children could read and write. They spoke both Irish and English. Julia had 7 children born alive and 5 still living. They lived in a 3^rd class house with 3 front windows. Two rooms occupied 6 persons. They had no additional outside buildings.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Oughterard/Tullyvrick/471369/

Church records of births, deaths and marriages:

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records, you will need to know the ‘church parish’ rather than the ‘civil parish’. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Tullyvrick is in the civil parish of Kilcummin.