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Meenagopag

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  • 07-08-2010 9:31am
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    hiorta
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    Is there a website/ local historian giving any kind of information about this small place, abandoned in 1953?
    My mothers folk - Gallagher - lived there for a long while, having moved up from Baltoney.
    Tapiadh lieve.


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    muffler
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    Where is it exactly?


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    deman
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    hiorta wrote: »
    Is there a website/ local historian giving any kind of information about this small place, abandoned in 1953?
    My mothers folk - Gallagher - lived there for a long while, having moved up from Baltoney.
    Tapiadh lieve.

    I'm pretty sure a place with that name never existed. It would show up in the census or something.


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    sesswhat
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    Try Meenagoppoge.

    Here is a link to the 1911 census for a Meenagoppoge near Dunlewy.

    As you can see there was a Gallagher family recorded (although it is not exactly a rare name in this part of the world :) )


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    sesswhat
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    muffler wrote: »
    Where is it exactly?

    The one I'm thinking of is at the SE end of Altan Lough, just off the road between Glenveagh and Errigal.


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    muffler
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    If it's any help to anyone the Council's Townland index can be viewed here


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    hiorta
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    Thanks for all your help, folks. Yes that is where it is, just behind Errigal at Dunlewey and inland from Falcarragh.
    There is what looks like an artificial loch/ reservoir with a square 'keep' type of building in the water itself.
    Grateful thanks.


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    sesswhat
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    You might be interested in the photos in this thread.


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