Pigot's Directory of Pettigo, Templecarn Parish, Co. Donegal, Ireland 1824

Extracted from Pigot & Co.’s City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory

Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com

***ORIGINAL SPELLING HAS BEEN RETAINED***

 

(The village of Pettigo straddles the Termon River and is located in both Cos. Fermanagh & Donegal; however, this directory only covers the Donegal portion)

 

PETTIGO

A small fair town on the banks of a little river in the County of Donegal is 97 miles north west of Dublin, four west of Kish, nine from Irvinestown, and 12 and three quarters east b north of Ballyshannon. Here are a small Protestant church, a Catholic chapel and a Methodist meeting house. The only charitable institutions of Pettigo are a dispensary and a Sunday school of the established church. There are only three markets in the year, which are on the Wednesday before Christmas day, Wednesday before Shrove Tuesday, and Wednesday before Easter. Fairs are held on January 17th, March 17th, May 1st, June 30th July 25th September 16th and November 12th. Population is about 400. Post Office, Kish.

A penny post conveys the letters to and from Kish.

No coaches pass through here, The Royal Mail leaves Enniskillen for Dublin every day at two, and returns at twelve noon.

The Sheliela also from Enniskillen to Dublin at four in the morning on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and at returns at eight in the evenings on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

 

GENTRY AND CLERGY

Surname	Firstname	Trade
BARTON	William, Esq.	Clonelly
INGRAM	Rev. William
JACOB	Rev. Robert S.	Rector of the parish
WARD	Rev. John

 

PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN

Surname	Firstname	Trade
BRADY	Terence	apothecary
SCOTT	A.	surgeon to the dispensary

 

SHOPKEEPERS, TRADESMEN &c.

Surname	Firstname	Trade
CATHORE	John	parish clerk
MAGUIRE	Hugh	grocer
ROBINSON	George	woollen draper
SMITH	George	woollen draper

 

PUBLICANS

Surname	Firstname
AIKEN	James
HOLMES	Alexander
READ	Thomas
SWANSTON	Edward