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Ballydonaghy cottage
This cottage in Ballydonaghy Townland in the Parish of Camlin, is located just 300 metres from another property (Darraghmore) once occupied by an Oakman family. Estimated to be up to 300 years old, it may well have been the home of the Oakman family who were living in the area in the early 1700s.
The 1830s Ordnance Survey Map shows two buildings on this property, while land valuation records of the same time show three buildings. The ruins of the main residence still exists but the two buildings listed as "offices" are gone.
Who Lived Here?
The Tithe Applotment Books of 1828-1840 show a John Oakman living at this cottage. He was paying £4 2s 0d in rent for house, offices and about 28 acres of land. Listed as #12 in the Townland Valuations Records of 1828-1840 (PRONI VAL/1B/171) and as #65 in PRONI VAL/12B/1/16A of 1864-1866. Between 1864 and 1876 the property was being leased from the Marquis of Hertford by a William Oakman junior. Orville Gill leased the property from 1877.
Ballydonaghy Townland
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