The Fitzgeralds at Clonavilla

	Fitzgeralds of Clonavilla before 1833.
James Fitzgerald dies 1833	James Fitzgerald died on April 7, 1833, four months before Anne and Michael married. Nowhere does it mention James's profession. We may assume he was a gentleman, yet the Tithe Applotment of 1833 shows no tithes payable and therefore no rate-payer, and the earliest Irish directory published by Slater's was not until 1846.
James's son James was Doctor or Miller? 1840's	James's son James Fitzgerald (1812-?) may have become a physician and surgeon, living in the nearby town of Newton-Butler. He appears in Slater's Directories for 1846 and 1856, although there were several other Fitzgeralds in the area. He may also have been a miller, as James Fitzgerald appears in Clonmore on a 5 acre plot during the 1861 Land Evaluation.
Who was Elizabeth Fitzgerald? Clonavilla 1861	An Elizabeth Fitzgerald is shown to occupy and/or be sub-leasing Clonavilla during the same land assessment carried out by Griffith in January of 1861. She herself is leasing from the landowner Sir Thomas B. Lennard. Perhaps she was the wife of one of James's other sons. For example, William Fitzgerald died at Clonavilla and was buried in St. Tighernach's in 1860.
	Fitzgeralds appear to have lived in the Clones area beyond 1900. Two Fitzgeralds who died in World War I are memorialized in St. Tighernach's church yard.