Spelling variations in official names of Clare PLUs.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:49 am
County Clare comprises (or comprised) all or parts of nine Poor Law Unions (PLUs, now known as Superintendent Registrar's Districts or SRDs):
Ballyvaghan
Corrofin
Ennis
Ennistimon
Killadysert
Kilrush
Limerick
Scarriff
Tulla
These are the spellings which appear on the map at
http://www.logainm.ie/eolas/Data/Brainse/sw-sheet.jpg
However, at
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Ireland/Un ... land.shtml
no less than five of the nine are spelled differently:
Ballyvaughan
Corofin
Ennistymon
Kildysart
Scariff
Searching the Irish Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958 for births, marriages and deaths in Clare obviously requires a knowledge of the possibility that insisting on exact matches might miss a spelling variant in the PLU/SRD name.
So I did some counts using the ancestry.com version of the database.
Ballyvaghan: no births, no marriages, no deaths
Ballyvaughan: 7,658 births, 2,884 marriages, 5,392 deaths
Corofin: no births, no marriages, no deaths
Corrofin: 9,364 births, 3,420 marriages, 6,181 deaths
Ennistimon: 37,806 births, 11,919 marriages, 22,885 deaths
Ennistymon: no births, no marriages, no deaths
Ennis: 47,445 births, 22,277 marriages, 36,927 deaths
Kildysart: no births, no marriages, no deaths
Killadysert: 18,598 births, 7,439 marriages, 11,657 deaths
Scariff: no births, no marriages, no deaths
Scarriff: 27,952 births, 12,824 marriages, 20,290 deaths
The bottom line is that the ancestry.com database is internally consistent as regards spelling of PLU/SRD names, but uses the spellings from the map for Corrofin, Ennistimon, Killadysert and Scarriff, but the alternate spelling for Ballyvaughan.
Ballyvaghan
Corrofin
Ennis
Ennistimon
Killadysert
Kilrush
Limerick
Scarriff
Tulla
These are the spellings which appear on the map at
http://www.logainm.ie/eolas/Data/Brainse/sw-sheet.jpg
However, at
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Ireland/Un ... land.shtml
no less than five of the nine are spelled differently:
Ballyvaughan
Corofin
Ennistymon
Kildysart
Scariff
Searching the Irish Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958 for births, marriages and deaths in Clare obviously requires a knowledge of the possibility that insisting on exact matches might miss a spelling variant in the PLU/SRD name.
So I did some counts using the ancestry.com version of the database.
Ballyvaghan: no births, no marriages, no deaths
Ballyvaughan: 7,658 births, 2,884 marriages, 5,392 deaths
Corofin: no births, no marriages, no deaths
Corrofin: 9,364 births, 3,420 marriages, 6,181 deaths
Ennistimon: 37,806 births, 11,919 marriages, 22,885 deaths
Ennistymon: no births, no marriages, no deaths
Ennis: 47,445 births, 22,277 marriages, 36,927 deaths
Kildysart: no births, no marriages, no deaths
Killadysert: 18,598 births, 7,439 marriages, 11,657 deaths
Scariff: no births, no marriages, no deaths
Scarriff: 27,952 births, 12,824 marriages, 20,290 deaths
The bottom line is that the ancestry.com database is internally consistent as regards spelling of PLU/SRD names, but uses the spellings from the map for Corrofin, Ennistimon, Killadysert and Scarriff, but the alternate spelling for Ballyvaughan.