Ballybay Moffetts

Krissy,

There’s a history of the Moffett family published in 1908, together with a photo of Crievagh House on this link. If you read the book it should presumably tell you exactly where the house was located (though I'd guess it was in Creevagh townland):

https://archive.org/details/ballybaymoffetts00moffe/page/n7

This may be your family in 1901:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Monaghan/Caddagh/Creevagh/1636805/

Griffiths Valuation for 1860 lists several Moffitts in the townland. I notice that there was a Covenanter Meeting House in the townland. And that the family in the 1901 census were Reformed Presbyterian (ie Covenanter). So Creevagh Covenanter Meeting House is likely where they attended church. (Their baptism records only start in 1884. There’s a copy in PRONI in Belfast).

Creevagh is a couple of miles up the R162 from Ballybay Village.

Krissy, 

Just found this site but hopefully you'll see this response.   My grandfather and his brother, Adam Moffett and George Moffett, wrote the genealogy in the link Elwyn provided.   I have his original copy and there is a handwritten note in the margins on page 7.   The women in the doorway is Harriet Moffett, the women by the horse is Elizabeth Moffett, and the two boys on the right are also Moffetts.  I'm not able to make out the boys christian names.  The women with the boy is Mary Bell and I believe his mother.  The two men by the cart are referred to as "labors" so I presume not related.

The photograph titles the picture as "Old Moffett Home" and is where my great-grandfather Thomas Moffett was born.   According to the note, the house in the picture was replaced in 1863.  There were still Moffetts living in the 1863 house when my uncle visited them in the 1960s.  I'm afraid I don't know the exactt location of the home although I might be able to find something in my grandfather's notes.  The Moffetts were very active members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church at Creevagh.   I don't know if Moffetts still live in the 1863 house but they were active in the church as recently as 2015.   This is a Youtube tour of the RPC church, conducted by Eric Moffett, you may find interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izkgtasEGvM

Hope this is helpful and best regards,

Russ Laughlin

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Griffiths Valuation for 1860 lists Thomas Moffitt on plot 9 in Creevagh and John Moffitt on plot 6. So there were 2 separate farms there then. Plus they had shared use of land and bog in plots 7 & 8.

Plot 7 was up a minor road off the R 162, to the east of the Covenanter’s Meeting House, on the right hand side going northwards. Plot 9 was further up that road, down a lane on the left hand side. Looking at the 2 properties on Google Earth, I would say plot 7 is just a private house now, but plot9 looks to be a farm still.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameS…

Thanks Elwyn!   John Moffett on plot 6 was my great great grandfather and Thomas was his brother.   There was a framed hand drawing of what sounds like those plots in my grandathers house when I was growing up.   Since my great grandfather was born in the house shown in the Moffett history, I presume that means it was on plot 6.   

Russ,

Plot 6 today has some buildings on it though comparing the modern image with the contemporary map, these buildings are on the other side of the road. The original farm house looks to have been demolished.

My father Rev James Robert Moffett was born in Crevagh in the 1920's and was a minister in Paisley.  There is a book called the Ford of the Birches which has the Crevagh church graveyard plan showing many Moffett graves.  It is my cousin Eric who is in the Crevagh church video.  My father was visited in the 70's by someone who was compiling a tree of the more recent Moffetts.  He did do this but I do not know who it was, I was away from home by then and not up to date withh all the family matters.  There is a listing for my father on Wikitree.  He had a ticket for a ship to America around 1940 but the ship was comandeered and he came to Scotland where there were more vacant charges.  He met my mother Mary Campbell when he preached at Loanhead in Midlothian.