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The Corragunt Family Home

The family home survives on land currently owned by the Quigley family. In the 1911 census it was described accurately as a stone-built house with a thatched roof; it had between two and four rooms and three windows, with eight farm buildings. The land was leased from James Madden who held extensive estates in the area, which were part of the Trinity College lands in the Clankelly Barony. The house (pictured) is abandoned now, but was always very well kept while it was lived in, with a walled garden, space for a horse and cart and so on. At the time of electrification, a neighbouring farm was occupied by two reclusive farmers who would not permit poles on their lands, which prevented power being supplied to the house.

According to the Griffith valuation of 1862 James Murphy was the sole Murphy occupier of the lands in Corragunt, where he rented several plots of land amounting to about fifty acres. This involved four different plots of land in the Eastern part of Corragunt townland.

 

The Valuation Revision books for Fermanagh record all changes for leases from the Griffith valuation until the 1920s. James Murphy held the lease for the fifty acres until his death in 1875. The lease was reassigned in 1876 to the “reps of James Murphy”. In 1877 the adjacent holding leased to Owen Doherty was leased to Henry Murphy – James’s son. In 1883 the original holdings were split between two sons – Patrick (Ellen’s father), who leased plot 15 – a 27-acre site, and John, who took over the three plots 16a-c, a total of 22 acres. In 1918 Bernard Murphy (presumably a son of John) took over from John. These are the Murphys who have current ownership of the grave in Roslea.

In 1923 the Roslea townlands were transferred from Roslea to the Union of Lisnaskea in the Electoral Division of Eshnadarragh.