Thank you Reg and Ken I'm going to check out some Google maps tonight. Tami Gilbert On Jan 3, 2013, at 2:01 PM, [email protected] wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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