I think Pete's reply and others on the subject is an important point about Irish research: there are multiple places with the same name throughout Ireland. So just because you find a placename you want, doesn't mean you have the precise one you are looking for. I recently went through birth death and marriage records for Irish civil registration and was very confused by the placenames given there. I wanted to look only at events that occurred in selected counties but these records just give a district name (nearest town or city?) which did not always mean anything to me. So I used the Townland search website: http://www.seanruad.com/ This is an invaluable site which could save everybody a lot of time when looking for a place. However every time I entered a placename that was given in the birth , death or marriage index for a particular event it would come up with 2 - 12 possibilities, all in different counties. Makes it really difficult to narrow down the particular certificates you want. I dont think you have this problem to the same extant in England, in my experience. Kae Lewis in the equally glorious hills of the Smokey Mts, Tennessee. > > << Were there a place called Deer Park in Co. Cork ? >> > > Catherine, > > There is a Deer Park townland, just south across the River Blackwater from > Michael Flately's notorious estate at Castlehyde. It is in Litter civil > parish, just two miles due west of Fermoy town. There is another Deer Park, > in Mogeely civil parish, less than three miles NNE of Castlemartyr town. And > a Deerpark townland along the banks of the River Bride, in Castlelyons civil > parish, just a mile south of Castlelyons town itself. But I can't help you > with the genealogy part at all. > > Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts