Urney, County Tyrone

Parish and Townland (Urney Civil Parish)

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Description of Urney (Also known as Skirts of Urney, Skirts of Derg):

URNEY, a parish, partly in the barony of RAPHOE, county of DONEGAL, but chiefly in that of STRABANE, county of TYRONE, and province of ULSTER, 2 miles (S. S. W.) from Strabane; containing, with the village of Claudy and part of the town of Strabane (each separately described), 7277 inhabitants. This parish, comprising 14,489.5 statute acres, according to the Ordnance survey, is bounded on the north-west by the county of Donegal, and is situated for the most part between the rivers Finn and Mourne, which, uniting at its northern extremity, form the Foyle. The greater portion of the land is remarkably fertile, and under its present improved treatment produces abundant crops of all kinds of grain: there is abundance of excellent limestone, which is extensively used both for building and agriculture; the bogs are greatly increasing in value, and the mountains afford excellent pasturage. The inhabitants combine with their rural employments, to which most attention is given, the manufacture of linen cloth: a large mill is now in progress of erection at Seeir, upon the Mourne river, for the spinning of linen yarn. The produce of the soil and of the manufactories finds a ready market at Strabane, and much of the grain is sent to Derry by the river Finn, in barks of from 60 to 80 tons burden.

The church, in the vale of Urney, a handsome edifice in the Grecian style, built in 1734, underwent a thorough repair in 1809. The right of nomination to the perpetual cure of Skirts, or Derg, belongs to the incumbent of this benefice. In the R.C. Divisions the parish is the head of a union or district, comprising this parish and that of Skirts. There are places of worship for Presbyterians at Somerville and Alt, the former in connection with the Synod of Ulster and the latter with the Associate or Seceding Synod.

...Extracts from The Samuel Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 (transcribed by Mel Lockie).

Census:

The 1821 - 1851 census returns were almost all destroyed in a fire, whereas the 1861 - 1891 census returns were destroyed by the government. However, full details from the 1901 & 1911 Census returns are available (and fully-searchable free-of-charge) on-line on the National Archives of Ireland website.

Townlands, Villages, & Towns of Urney Parish

This is a list of the settlements listed in the GENUKI Gazetteer as being within Urney Civil Parish, with links to the relevent GENUKI Town/Village page where available. Many places straddle parish boundaries, in which case they may be listed under each parish.

Backtown Townland Ballycolman Townland BALLYFATTEN Village and Townland Ballylennan Mercer Townland Ballylennan Scott Townland Bellspark Townland Berrysfort Townland Bridgetown Townland Carricklee Townland Carrickone Townland CASTLEDERG Town and Townland Castlegore Townland Castlesessagh Townland Castletown Townland Cavan Townland Churchtown Townland CLADY Village and Townland

CRAIGMONAGHAN Village and Townland Creevy Lower Townland Creevy Upper Townland Dartans Townland Donnygowan Townland Drumeagle Townland Flushtown Townland Fort-town Townland Freughlough Townland Gallany Townland Ganvaghan Hemphill Townland Ganvaghan Kyle Townland Ganvaghan Semple Townland Glebe Townland GLENTIMON Village and Townland Glentown Townland Gortlogher Townland

Hunterstown Townland Inchenny Townland Inchenny Upper Townland Inisclan Townland Kennystown Townland Kilclean Townland Kilcroagh Townland Kinkit Townland Learmore Townland Liggartown Townland Lisdoo Townland Magheragar Townland Magirr Townland Mount Bernard Townland Munie Townland Peacockbank Townland Prospect Townland

Pullyernan Townland Rabstown Townland Scotstown Townland Seein Townland SION MILLS Village Skerryglass Townland Somervillestown Townland Stephenstown Townland Tullydoortans Townland Tullymoan Townland Tullywhisker Townland URNEY Parish and Townland Urney Glebe Townland

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Churches & Cemeteries:

The following places of worship and burial are listed in the GENUKI Church & Cemetery Database.

Castlederg: Cemetery Castlederg: Church of Ireland, St John Castlederg: Evangelical, Elim Castlederg: Methodist Castlederg: Presbyterian Castlederg: Presbyterian

Castlederg: Presbyterian (Free) Castlederg: Roman Catholic, St Patrick Castlederg: Roman Catholic, St Mary Clady: Church of Ireland, Christ Church Kennystown: Presbyterian Sion Mills: Baptist

Sion Mills: Church of Ireland, Good Shepherd Sion Mills: Presbyterian Sion Mills: Roman Catholic, St Theresa Spamount: Roman Catholic, St Francis of Assisi

Use these links to view all NEARBY churches & cemeteries listed in the GENUKI Church Database (irrespective of the Parish), AS A LIST or MARKED ON A MAP.

Surnames interests for Urney

If you have ancestors who lived in Urney and you have your family history on a website, then we'd be happy to list their surnames here with a link back to your web site. Please note, we won't publish email links, as that would inevitably result in you eventually getting spam emails.

Maps:

Urney is located at Latitude/Longitude 54.798271 / -7.526579, which the links below will show on a variety of on-line maps:

• Bing Maps.
• OpenStreetMap.
• Nearby places (from the GENUKI Gazetteer) MARKED ON A MAP or shown AS A LIST.

Detailed 19th century Ordnance Survey maps for the whole of (at 6 inches to the mile), are available to view at the British Library in London (Reader Ticket needed).

Links to Geotagged Photographs:

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• Panoramio
• Loc.alize.us

Contributors:

A special thanks to the following people who have contributed information for this page: Mel Lockie. If you can tell us any of the information currently missing from this page, then we'd love to hear from you. You can get in-touch by using the 'contribute information' link at the bottom of this page.

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[ This page last updated on March 3rd 2012 by David Lindley ]