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Glengar & Leugh

The Glengar & Leugh Boundaries

Glengar and Leugh are two townlands in the portion of the civil parish of Doon that lies within Co. Tipperary. 

Since they are found within the land records of Co. Tipperary, I find myself associating these townlands with the parish of Toem -- and so I have referred to the Buckleys of Glengar and Leugh as being part of the “Buckleys of the Toem area.” 

This, of course, merely reflects my geographical bias, having a Toem rather than Doon heritage myself.  Doon, unfortunately, is one of those civil parishes that is confusingly split between Tipperary and Limerick.  Even more confusingly, the pieces of Doon are not even entirely contiguous with one another, so when looking for places in Doon in maps your eye has to scan the page for other pieces of Doon floating off by themselves.

The historical data suggest that the Doon Buckleys are a very important branch of the Buckley family tree, in the borderland of Co. Tipperary and Co. Limerick, with their roots extending back to at least the Religious Census of 1766 (where a Daniel and a William Buckley appear). 

So, more properly, perhaps I should refer to this site as the "Buckleys of Cappawhite and Doon," but then the address for this site would start to get really long . . .   I do, however, intend to eventually post on this website the limited data we have collected for the Doon Buckleys not living in Glengar or Leugh.

Glengar

When we fast forward to the Griffith’s Valuation records of 1851, we see that William of Glengar has not only continued -- he has prospered.  The 14 acre, 3 rods, and 3 perches (Irish) holding in 1826 has grown to 122 acres, 2 rods, and  35 perches (English) in 1851, spanning 4 parcels:

This size holding must certainly support several related families, but the bare leasehold records in the GV do not reveal this underlying detail.  Eventually, as we follow the evolution of these holdings through the succeeding GV updates, the leaseholds change hands sufficiently to get our foot in the door of re-constructing this family.

As with the townlands of Cahernahallia/Knockanavar and Shanacloon, I have been able to determine the geographical extent of the various Buckley holdings in Glengar, working from the detailed GV map annotated for 1872.  My reconstruction is depicted below:

We have less direct data from the Buckleys of Glengar than we had for the Cahernahallia/Knockanavar and Shanacloon Buckleys -- in part because of the lack of detail in the property records, and in part because we have not obtained any baptismal records for this branch of the family from TFHR. 

What we do have consists of the inferences drawn from the property records, a few pieces of information from cemetery inscriptions, some oral family history, and some good leads from data found in the civil birth and death registration data.

Given this rather uncertain start, I was surprised at how complete the tree looks once it is put together.  So, here is our best first draft of a family tree for the Glengar Buckleys from the mid-19^th century:

William The Son

I owe a few words of explanation here.  First, since there is a William Buckley in the Glengar record from 1766 through about 1882-1884, there must be more than one William in the Glengar line.  The property parcel evolution table shows how the last William leaves the property records around 1882-1884, succeeded by Ellen (presumably his widow).  Referring to the death registry extracts, we see a William Buckley passed who passed away in 1883, at the age of 52 (i.e., b. 1831). 

Since this individual would have been of child-raising age during the period covered by our civil birth registry extracts, we looked at these records and found a William Buckley, with a wife named Ellen Nash, with four children born between 1867 and 1875, as indicated in the chart above. 

(One of these children, Michael, succeeds the widow Ellen on the William (1831-1883) parcel -- and subsequently takes over several other parcels as well.  Michael,in turn is succeeded by a combination of three individuals (John, Denis, and James), who I assume are his sons -- and I have indicated them as such in the chart.)

So we have our first William, but he is certainly not the William of the Tithe Applotments in 1826.  I will refer to him as William the Son, or simply William (1831-1883).

William The Father

Looking at the property records again, we see another change of ownership that occurs a few years earlier -- between about 1872 and 1876.  In this period, after nearly 50 years of Glengar parcels being held in the name of a single individual, William, we see a re-shuffling of at least five parcels involving two new names: James and Cornelius.  William (1831-1883) may have also succeeded to his tenancy during this same time period.  This seems to suggest that the original William of Glengar may have passed away during the period of 1872-1876. 

Checking the death registry extracts again, we see a William Buckley who passed away in 1875 at the age of 75.  This data fits with the property evolution pattern, and identifies an individual old enough to have been "William of Glengar" in the Tithe Applotments, and old enough to be the father of William (1831-1883).

James and Cornelius

Going back to James and Cornelius, if they were brothers of William (1831-1883) then we might expect to see them and their families reflected in the birth registry extracts.  In fact, we find one (and only one) Cornelius Buckley in the birth registry, married to Catherine Ryan and having two children (William and Patrick), as indicated in the draft family tree.

Going back to James, we find a James Buckley in the birth registry extracts, also (coincidentally)married to a woman named Catherine Ryan, having two children (William and Mary), as indicated in the draft family tree.  The recurring name of William reinforces the relationship between these families and the original William of Glengar, which is why I have placed them as sons of William and brother to William (1831-1883).

The Fourth Brother -- Michael

We have one more strong link to William of Glengar, a Michael Buckley memorialized in the Doon Cemetery, with the marker pictured below:

Looking at the Glengar property records, there appears to have been only one Buckley family in Glengar during the period of this Michael Buckley's life (1829-1851): the family headed by William, with sons William, James, and Cornelius.  This Michael fits perfected into the role of a fourth brother, born two years before WIlliam (1831-1883).  Accordingly, I have represented him as such in the draft family tree.

Two More Williams?

There are just a few loose ends left before we leave the Glengar Buckleys.  First, the memorial marker pictured above refers to another William Buckley, nephew of Michael, who lived from 1861-1869.  We find this William in the death registry extracts for 1869, as we expect, but we have to place him in the family tree.  And, there is yet another William still, from the family history of one of the modern descendants of the Buckleys of Glengar.  This William is said to have been the father the James Buckley (1881-1933) also mentioned in the memorial marker pictured above. 

We therefore have two Williams already in the third generation of these Glengar Buckleys (sons of James and Cornelius) and these two additional ones to place -- with only one brother, William, left in the Glengar property records (presuming that the short-lived Michael had no children). 

One solution is to find another brother, and I think we have one living in the adjoining townland of Leugh -- so I turn there next.

Leugh

No Buckleys appear in Leugh in the 1826 Tithe Applotments, so we first see the family name in the 1851 Griffith's Valuation data:

If we thought our data about the Glengar Buckleys was plagued by a lack of detail, we have even less for the Buckleys of Leugh -- especially in the property data.  The prominent name here is Patrick, which appears in 1851 and persists in the record until the update of 1876-1882 -- where a line is drawn through the name Patrick and the word "death" is written above it. 

In the update for 1884-1893, we see Patrick's name replaced by that of "Catherine" -- whom we presume is Patrick's widow. 

Finally, in the update for 1909-1929, the name Catherine is crossed out and the name "Timothy" is inserted.   Throughout the period of the GV and GV updates, there is no renumbering of the Leugh parcels and no change in the Buckley holdings.  They are as depicted in the Glengar & Leugh parcel map, above. 

It should be noted that the Leugh holdings are quite large, so there could be a number of families living here, but we have no visibility into possibility from the property records.  As with Glengar, we have no baptism or marriage records for the Leugh Buckleys, but unlike the Glengar Buckleys we have no cemetery inscriptions.  We have, however, enough to make a start.

Patrick's Family

One thing we have is an approximate death date: between 1876 and 1882, as indicated by the GV update.  When we check the death register extracts, we find a Patrick Buckley who died in 1879 at the age of 52.  There are no other death records for a Patrick that come even close to matching the criteria of an adult dying between 1876 and 1882, so this is a likely match. 

Another thing we have is a spouse's name: Catherine.  So a man dying at age 52 in 1879 could well have had children during the period covered by our extracts of birth registrations, and checking there we find one match: Patrick Buckley married to Catherine Quinlan.  This couple had four children registered to them during the time period of our records: Catherine (28 Feb 1867); Bridget (21 May 1869); James (10 May 1871); and Timothy (20 June 1872). 

Sadly, we also have a death registration in 1871 for a newborn, James, suggesting that Patrick and Catherine might have lost this child.  This seems born out by the fact that no James ever appears in the property records: Patrick is succeeded by Catherine, who is succeeded by Timothy.

Patrick's Heritage

I conclude this section with the familiar question: where did the Patrick Buckley family come from?  Since Leugh adjoins both Glengar and Knockanavar, Patrick of Leugh is probably from one of these other families, but which one?  Knockanavar does not fit: John Buckley had a son named Patrick born in 1822, but Patrick of Leugh appears to have been born in 1827; Darby has no listed son named Patrick, but a son named John who occupies 1827. 

This turns us toward Glengar: As it happens, our Leugh Patrick's birth date,1827, slides neatly into the Glengar clan ahead of Michael (b. 1829) and William (b. 1831), and appears a good fit.  So this is where I have placed him for now, as you can see in the Glengar family tree above. 

Without further corroborating detail this is more a matter of intuition than cool reason at this point.  So I will leave it to the modern descendants of the Leugh Buckleys to point us in the right direction. 

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