LOL, Riobard! What ever would we do without you! I'm still wet around the ears and trying to figure out the parishes, let alone the town-lands. I tend to liken the Irish counties to our states, your parishes to our counties (except in Louisiana where they too have parishes rather than counties), then town to town, city to city. Am I learning anything? Got any good stories about Ardagh (that's correct, isn't it?) on Bere Island? Doesn't even have to be good :) I'm just hungry for a story. And please explain for novices such as I, is it Bere or Beare? I know I get Beare from O'Sullivan Beare, but thought I'd seen that used as the spelling of the island also. Am I totally off? Happy Weekend from Texas Ya'll Lisa O'Sullivan -----Original Message----- From: beara-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:beara-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Riobard O'Dwyer Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:55 AM To: beara@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BEARA] Spelling. No takers, so I'll tell you. What was written down as Blookbea was actually BALLAUGHBUE in the Allihies Parish.. See how easy it is !! ---- Riobard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Riobard O'Dwyer" <beararesearchodwyer@eircom.net> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:59 PM Subject: [BEARA] Spelling. > At times one can get the strangest of spellings of townlands when > researching ---- especially in the olden days. Recently I came across one > of many, which, with all the experience, had me thinking for a while > before it dawned on me. It is here in the Beara Peninsula,and it was > called BLOOKBEA. Anyone chance what the place is/and has been called for > many, many years ? > ----- Riobard. > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for home users. > SPAMfighter has removed 1648 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for home users. SPAMfighter has removed 1676 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Lisa, You will get buckets of stories about Ardagh (one of the townlands of Bere Island) in my book "Who were my Ancestors ? Bere Island Parish" from me here. I thought the books were nearly all gone, but recently I came across a container of them that I had forgotten existed. When they are all gone, everybody will be looking for them, but then it will be too late. Regards, Riobard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa O" <ohlisao@att.net> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:22 AM Subject: Re: [BEARA] Spelling. > LOL, Riobard! What ever would we do without you! I'm still wet around > the > ears and trying to figure out the parishes, let alone the town-lands. I > tend to liken the Irish counties to our states, your parishes to our > counties (except in Louisiana where they too have parishes rather than > counties), then town to town, city to city. Am I learning anything? > > Got any good stories about Ardagh (that's correct, isn't it?) on Bere > Island? Doesn't even have to be good :) I'm just hungry for a story. > > And please explain for novices such as I, is it Bere or Beare? I know I > get > Beare from O'Sullivan Beare, but thought I'd seen that used as the > spelling > of the island also. Am I totally off? > > Happy Weekend from Texas Ya'll > > Lisa O'Sullivan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: beara-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:beara-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Riobard O'Dwyer > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:55 AM > To: beara@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BEARA] Spelling. > > No takers, so I'll tell you. What was written down as Blookbea was > actually > BALLAUGHBUE in the Allihies Parish.. See how easy it is !! > ---- Riobard. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Riobard O'Dwyer" <beararesearchodwyer@eircom.net> > To: <beara@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:59 PM > Subject: [BEARA] Spelling. > > >> At times one can get the strangest of spellings of townlands when >> researching ---- especially in the olden days. Recently I came across one >> of many, which, with all the experience, had me thinking for a while >> before it dawned on me. It is here in the Beara Peninsula,and it was >> called BLOOKBEA. Anyone chance what the place is/and has been called for >> many, many years ? >> ----- Riobard. >> >> -- >> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for home users. >> SPAMfighter has removed 1648 spam emails to date. >> Paying users do not have this message in their emails. >> Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for home users. > SPAMfighter has removed 1676 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for Personal use. SPAMfighter has removed 1799 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Trial and Professional version does not have this message in the email