Arnots Grove

Arnott's Grove
Irish grid reference	H466315
District	Fermanagh District Council
County	County Fermanagh
Constituent country	Northern Ireland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ENNISKILLEN
Postcode district	BT92
Dialling code	028 677 51
Police	Northern Ireland
Fire	Northern Ireland
Ambulance	Northern Ireland
European Parliament	Northern Ireland
UK Parliament	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
NI Assembly	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
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Arnott's Grove is a townland in South-East County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Area 82:2:5 including 2:0:32 water, Back Lough, Rossbrick Lough.

Etymology

There is a local tradition that this small townland was the site of a castle hence the name of Arnott. Nothing remains of the castle though there are some humps in the ground which might mark the site. No trace of the surname Arnott has surfaced so far.

Griffith Valuation 1862

Occupier	Lessor	Tenement
Patrick Kearns	James Hare	House, Offices & Land
Michael Gunn		House, Offices & Land
Sarah Kearns		House & Land
Samuel Crudden	James Hare	House, Offices & Land
Patrick Scollan	James Hare	House, Offices & Land
Hannah Monaghan	James Hare	House, Offices & Land
James McCaffrey	James Hare	House, Offices & Land
Bernard Kearns	James Hare	House, Offices & Land

1901 Census

Head of Family…………...Landholder if different Thos Kearns John McGeehan Anne Crudden James McCaffrey Patk. Kearns

Surnames in 2005

Kearns

This townland is tucked in between the larger townlands of Rossbrick and Loughgare and originally the lane way to it was from the Golan Road through Rossbrick but the present resident has made a new laneway out unto Drumaa Lane which gives him access to the New Line / Dernawilt Road.

Crudden Family

Photograph of Headstone naming Patrick Crudden

This little bit is a tale of two emigrants. When the Elliott stone was being photographed in St McCartan’s graveyard, another small plain grey stone was noticed because it was so different.

Photograph of Crudden family headstone

It was that of Patrick Crudden, New York, PVT 1 US INF December 9 1937.

His brother Edward whose name is on the family headstone, served as a warder in Sing Sing Prison, New York. Judging by the names on that Headstone, the Samuel Crudden in the Griffiths Valuation 1862 was their father.

In the 1901 Census there is an Anne Crudden. The photograph below is of ? Crudden and was taken outside her house at Arnotts Grove.

Photograph of ? Crudden of Arnotts Grove