Just to clarify something that Reg said and to offer a bit of guidance to others looking for the location of houses or farms in Beara. The properties being searched for are actually in North Allihies but for some obscure reason the townlands of Cluin, Allihies and Ballydonegan came under the registration district of Coulagh in the 1911 Census rather than being in their usual place of Kilnamanagh. Reg is absolutley right to say that local knowledge is often vital but listers may be able to carry out their own searches by following the list of actions detailed below:- 1. Use Riobard's books to trace your ancestors back to whoever you take to be the head of the household in 1852. 2. Search the Griffiths Valuation via the askaboutireland website. The search can be by the person's name or by the townland in which they lived. However, searching by name is difficult because the transcriptions from the handwritten records are particularly poor and very often it is a family nickname or branch name that has been recorded rather than the surname that you are searching for. I find searching by townland to bring greater rewards but it needs to be remembered that Allihies Parish was known as Kilnamanagh, Castletownbere as Killaconenagh and Eyeries as Kilcatherine. Also the spelling of townland names has changed considerably over the last two hundred years and whilst there is an exercise in progress to create a database in which the various spellings can be checked, this may take a little time to come to fruition. 3. Having found your target person you need to note the townland and their plot number before switching to the Map View. Then you zoom in until you find the townland and the particular plot you are looking for. 4. Click on the Hybrid button in the top right of the screen and then move the slider underneath it to the left to reveal a modern satellite image of the area. You can zoom in or out as you wish to hopefully recognise some modern day feature that will allow you to identify the property. This method works best when used in conjunction something like Google Earth or Google Maps where you can zoom down to street view. Almost all roads in Beara have been covered so there is a reasonable chance that you will be able to get a good photograph of the property you are looking for.

Thanks, Ken for correcting this. So...Tami do NOT look at the Google map for Coulagh but for the North part of Alihies. Sorry-Reg (I thought there was a different family at House 16 in Coulagh! Thanks again, Ken.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Mason" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 1:37 PM Subject: [BEARA] Lowney/O'Neill > Just to clarify something that Reg said and to offer a bit of guidance > to others looking for the location of houses or farms in Beara. > > The properties being searched for are actually in North Allihies but for > some obscure reason the townlands of Cluin, Allihies and Ballydonegan > came under the registration district of Coulagh in the 1911 Census > rather than being in their usual place of Kilnamanagh. > > Reg is absolutley right to say that local knowledge is often vital but > listers may be able to carry out their own searches by following the > list of actions detailed below:- > > 1. Use Riobard's books to trace your ancestors back to whoever you take > to be the head of the household in 1852. > > 2. Search the Griffiths Valuation via the askaboutireland website. The > search can be by the person's name or by the townland in which they > lived. However, searching by name is difficult because the > transcriptions from the handwritten records are particularly poor and > very often it is a family nickname or branch name that has been recorded > rather than the surname that you are searching for. I find searching by > townland to bring greater rewards but it needs to be remembered that > Allihies Parish was known as Kilnamanagh, Castletownbere as > Killaconenagh and Eyeries as Kilcatherine. Also the spelling of > townland names has changed considerably over the last two hundred years > and whilst there is an exercise in progress to create a database in > which the various spellings can be checked, this may take a little time > to come to fruition. > > 3. Having found your target person you need to note the townland and > their plot number before switching to the Map View. Then you zoom in > until you find the townland and the particular plot you are looking for. > > 4. Click on the Hybrid button in the top right of the screen and then > move the slider underneath it to the left to reveal a modern satellite > image of the area. You can zoom in or out as you wish to hopefully > recognise some modern day feature that will allow you to identify the > property. This method works best when used in conjunction something > like Google Earth or Google Maps where you can zoom down to street > view. Almost all roads in Beara have been covered so there is a > reasonable chance that you will be able to get a good photograph of the > property you are looking for. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message