In a message dated 7/31/2008 9:35:20 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Griffiths indicates that my great granduncle farmed plot 24 in Gortnaskea Townland, Fahan Upper Parish. One can place a marker at the spot 55° 4'27.41"N and 7°21'17.46"W and add his Griffiths data viz Griffiths Valuation Record Information Tenant Family Name 1 MCSHEAFFRY Forename 1 WILLIAM Landlord Family Name 2 MAXWELL Forename 2 PETER Location County DONEGAL Barony INISHOWEN, WEST Union LONDONDERRY Parish FAHAN, UPPER Townland GORTNASKEA Place Type TOWNLAND Publication Details Valuation ID 1525319 Position on Page 46 Printing Date 1858 Act 15&16 Image ID 071026 Sheet Number 38 Map Reference 24 The zoom facility allows me to walk around the field without the need to fly over there from Manchester. I love the idea of being able to walk around the field. I have Sheet 93 of the ordnance survey maps of 1836, and a few years ago Lindel (bless her helpful heart!) sent me a map of the townland of Drumgornan, which shows all the plots and their numbers. I could then locate where the family left behind after g-grandfather emigrated had lived by looking at films of the electoral rolls of later years, on which the plot numbers, tenants, owners, plot size and values were listed. I could easily see why people had left......those were really small plots, and more than one family could never make a living on one. I also had gone to Google and printed out a nice color print of the area, which showed the houses, roads and all details including the lines of division between plots (they look like hedges or fences with bushes around them), though I couldn't be sure if my family's house was still there. One problem I had on the site was trying to get the map loaded. It would only show the very bottom few inches, which didn't reach up to Drumgornan. I also wanted to see the map for Roscommon where my husband's family came from, but didn't bother printing it because it was so small I couldn't even locate the townland on it. Off to find a bigger map if possible! Otherwise, it's going to be a very helpful site for a lot of us. Margo **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)