Legends of Sligo: The Mermaid Rocks

Check out the Sligo Legend of the Mermaid Rocks. It involves the O'Dowd clan.

An interesting legend which includes "The O'Dowd"

Source:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/mermaid.html

Enniscrone Castle Kilglass Parish, Co. Sligo

History of Offaly - Kilkenny Clan O'Nolan: Connaught

This website is for the O'Nolans, not for the O'Dowds but includes history of O'Dowds and the castle of Enniscrone Castle is in Kilglass Parish, Co. Sligo

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nolenancestry/page1d.html

O'Caomhain, a senior branch of the O'Dowd family

“O’Caomhain (see the “Cowan” pedigree), a senior branch of the O’Dowd family, and chiefs of some districts on the borders of Sligo and Mayo, in the baronies of Tireragh and Corran and Costello.”

Source:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=MLrKek2HsEEC&lpg=SL16-PA9&ots=BTv_i4F8Lp&dq=prince%20o'dowd%20county%20sligo&pg=SL16-PA9#v=onepage&q=prince%20dowd%20county%20sligo&f=true

County Sligo Census 1745

County Sligo Diocese of Elphin

Page - Name
366 Dowd, William
370 Dowd, Margaret
376 Dowd, Patrick
387 Dowd, Francis
402 Dowd, Francis
402 Dowde, Widow

358 Dowde, Elinor [page not on website]
Source:
WorldGenWeb Project: "Sligo County Ireland Genealogy" webpage 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/census1749surnameindex.html

Mayo:
King: O’Conor
Prince: O’Dowd
Baron: Browne, O’Hara, Taaffe

Sligo:
Princes: Mac Dermott., O’Donnell, O’Dowd
Lords: Mac Donogh, O’Conor, O’Flannelly, O’Gara, O’Hara, O’Mulchlohy
Chieftains: O’Crean, O’Hart, O’Kernaghan
No Title Designated: Mac Conway, Mac Firbis, Mac Geraghty, O’Brogan, O’Coleman, O’Conaghty, O’Delvin, O’Durkan, O’Feeney, O’Finegan, O’Gavagan, O’Howley, O’Keevan, O’Meehan, O’Mongan, O’Moran, O’Morrissey, O’Morrison, O’Moynagh, O’Mullany, O’Mulvany, O’Spillane.

Source:
Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research
A Guide to the Genealogical Records, Methods and Sources in Ireland
Volume I Repositories and Records
By Margaret Dickson Falley, BS
Page 456 and 458

County Sligo genealogy & Family History book

Ireland, County Sligo: genealogy & family history : special extracts from ... By Michael C. O'Laughlin

Link to search for Dowd's in the book
Source:
http://books.google.com/books/p/3123296067943190?q=dowd&hl=en_US&vid=9780940134560&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#v=snippet&q=dowd&f=false

County Sligo [Contae Shligigh] History websites

Sligo County History
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/history.html



Sligo Heritage
http://www.sligoheritage.com/

Sligo - the unheralded County of Ireland

My Place among the Stones
http://www.moytura.com/sligo.htm


County Sligo History
http://www.westirelandholidays.com/sligo/history.htm

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Sligo

Sligo History

http://www.sligoroots.com/#

O'Dowd Crest

MOTTO - "Virtus Ipsa Suis Firmissima Nititur Armis" (Bravery is Best Sustained by Arms).
Authority Chief Herald of Ireland 1574.


Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Dowd

Robert Dowd Family

James O'Dowd born 1805 in County Sligo, Ireland who married Marry Summerville.
According to my records they had 5 children Richard, Jame, Robert James, Margaret and Elizabeth.

If these records are correct, I hail from the Robert James line.
Robert was born in cushing, Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada. He married Eliza Bigelow 1872. they are both buried in St. Mongoes Cemetery in Cushing, Quebec, Canada.
Robert had 3 sons - Joseph, Lemuel, and Robert. All 3 born in Argenteuil County, Quebec, Canada.

Source:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=pcpfu5mm7u880ou5hshs9sv282&topic=208902.msg1072226