THE PARISH OF DONAGHMORE STATISTICS

A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND (source: Cowan – Donaghmore, An Ancient Irish Parish)

Anciently called Domhnach Mór Muighe Cobha (pron. Donaghmore Moy Cova), meaning The Great Church of the Plain of Cobha. (Cobha is the name of the first Milesian King of Ireland’s huntsman who is reputed to have met his death on this plain)

Size of Donaghmore Parish:

The parish is approximately six miles from north to south and four miles west to east at the widest point, average two and a half miles. Total area about fifteen square miles.

The parish is composed of about twenty six townlands of which Ringclare (total area about 280 acres) is one.

Population of Donaghmore Parish:

Notes:

1. A high proportion of the population in 1834 were flax spinners and weavers.

2. Of the population of 1385 in 1901

 

Roman Catholics	704
Presbyterians	486
C of Ireland	163
Methodist	16
Other	1

3. Of the total population of 1411 in 1911, 82 of those over 9 years of age could neither read nor write.

The 1641 Rebellion:

Glynmore in Dromantine, to the west of the parish, is famous as the reputed site of massacre of 1200 protestants in the rebellion of 1641 by the native Irish. (My subnote: reports of the events of this rebellion are often greatly exaggerated).

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