Tironeill

The McCallion plot in Tironeill is just above the Tironeill label on the map, in the dip of that road. Note the Clonleigh graveyard is circled at the bottom for reference. This is where the McCallions lived from at least 1860s (Griffith's Evaluation) until at least 1911 census. (James, Michael, and Daniel had already emigrated but the time of that census, but Anna McBride McCallion and her two children James and Joseph are resident here in 1911)

 

Below is Griffith's from 1867 or so. John McCallion had plot #2 (we now know gr-gr-grandfather was NOT Thomas):.

The image & map are misaligned a bit, as both structures (semi-circle) appear to be in plot #1. If you zoom in on Griffith's, you can see the line dividing #1 and #2 should be shifted to the left.

This pic from google from the west approaching the plot, to the left (north). This house was not present, but this was John McCallion's land.

Google map pic to the right, south. The barn was not there in 1860s, but the lane to the two houses beyond was, and this was John McCallion's land:

Kath's pic. On the lane, the old McCallion house in the background:

My pic below. If the house straight ahead is #2 McCallion, then the house to the right is on plot #1, either John McNamee or Patrick Carolan (?)

Still in active use as a barn/storage.

The sleeping alcove? Where the elderly would get a spot to sleep closer to the fire?

Kath and Ellie in front of plot #1 house.

Paul, Kath, and I. Paul is a great guy: warm, welcoming, intelligent, witty (are we sure we are related? lol)

Murlog

Murlog graveyard, May 2023, thanks to Paul! This is a beautiful spot on the side of the hill, overlooking the valley.

John McCallion, Pop's oldest brother, and family. His wife Margaret McGinley dies young in 1935 and is buried in Clonleigh (no marker).

Pop's siblings, William and Sarah.

This is John, son of Pop's oldest brother John, and Paul's father.

Need to check with Paul on this. McGinley is on Paul's grandmother's side. But his grandparents have a daughter Mary who marries John Sweeney (are these the folks that ran the post office?)

The town of Lifford is to the lower right. Murlog cemetery is at St Patrick's church in center left. The Clonleigh graveyard is upper right.

The townland of Tironeil is just to the north, not in pic.

Sacred Ground

Clonleigh cemetery. We know James McCallion and Mary Hagney (great-grandparents) are buried here, although not sure where.

Paul's grandmother Margaret McGinley McCallion is also buried here.

This is a beautiful, peaceful place, with souls from the past brushing by your shoulder as you walk through.

Additional pics from Donegal Genealogy site:

http://www.donegalgenealogy.com/oldclonleighgYpics.htm

Plot of the graveyard from the same site:

http://www.donegalgenealogy.com/oldclonleighgyplan.htm

James and Mary are likely in one of these two areas on that map:

1. one of those stones marked as Illegible

2. one of those plots that have no stones at all

or #3, they are buried in a plot that was then re-used (not uncommon!)

more Hagneys

So, great-grandfather James McCallion marries Mary Hagney in 1874. Her name gets munged into Hegarty on later birth records for her children. On their marriage cert it lists her father as Daniel Hagney.

ancestry.com shows we have relations (via dna) with families like the Robbins (from NJ) and Sackvilles (from PA). While I haven't heard back yet from the few I've written to, the common link in the trees seems to be Sarah Hagney:

 ... no McCallions or McBrides or Meehans in the mix of common family trees (and this match is all on the maternal side).

This is more info on Sarah Hagney Sackville, obit 1939:

So Sarah was from Ireland. Her parents were Daniel Hagney and Eunace Sweeney, both from Ireland. 

And we are related. I think this is likely great-grandmother Mary Hagney's sister.

Hagneys

This would be great-grandmother Mary Hagney's family remaining in Falcarragh, 1901 census (her brother Daniel's family):

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Donegal/Cross_Roads/Moyra_Glebe/1171671/

1911 census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Donegal/Cross_Roads/Moyra_Glebe/482252/

Kate is a widow, so husband Daniel has died.

Birth of daughter Ann, 1883:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1883/02724/2001965.pdf

Catherine's mother listed as Anne McCarroll

Birth of William, 1886:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1886/02614/1964961.pdf

Daniel dies, 1910, age 56. So possibly born 1854:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1910/05428/4517309.pdf

pics from Derek

 Derek McNeil confirms that this pic is of James McBride and Ann Meehan:

https://family-mccallion.blogspot.com/2022/10/pic-from-michael-mccallion.html

"Yes, I recognise the photo from my grandparents' (Alec and Maude's) house (from years ago when I was too young to have any interest!) I'm pretty sure it is still there though, and I will check next time I'm in Dooish."

Derek also sent along these pics:

" George and Katherine’s house in Dooish. This is where my grandfather Alec and his siblings -Annie, Molly, Bridie and Celine - were raised (to the best of my knowledge)."

"I’ve also attached a photo of my grandfather Alec and Maude’s house that was built c. 1963/4 … a few hundred yards away “up the lane”. You can see the family outside. "

Katherine McBride McNeil, sister of Charles McBride and Anne McBride McCallion (and others), mother of the McNeil clan mentioned above:

Thanks Derek!

pics from Stephen

 William Meyler, who marries Pop's sister Anne:

From Stephen: "Annie McCallion on the left, William Meyler on the right. I think the man in the middle is Louis Meyler of Liverpool"

We've seen this pic before, but Stephen confirms it is from their wedding:

Annie McCallion and William Meyler’s grave is in Crosstown, County Wexford