Yes Maureen the literal Gaelic translation would be land of O'Neil and the townland has been in existence since the very early years of record keeping, however Tironeil is not mentioned in that particular book, for whatever the reason. I'll keep searching though! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen Gallagher" <mgallagh@colba.net> To: <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] CLONLEIGH 1821 CENSUS CON'T > Doesn't Tironeil just mean land of O'Neil? As for spellings, one townland > Clonclayagh is also spelled Cloncleigha, and Cloncleigh. I think it's the > english pronunciation and the gaelic one as well as whoever spelled it when > they wrote it down. > > Maureen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JANICEFRIEL@aol.com> > To: <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:56 PM > Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] CLONLEIGH 1821 CENSUS CON'T > > > > In a message dated 12/17/2003 4:19:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, > > ancabhan@taconic.net writes: > > Looking at Clonleigh, I wonder is there no listing for Tironeil ? It is a > > townland within the bounds of Clonleigh and my family has lived there > since > > at least 1826. > > > > don't know why, but it's not listed. > > > > Janice > > > > > > ==== DONEGALEIRE Mailing List ==== > > If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe from the Donegaleire list send an > email to DONEGALEIRE-L-request@rootsweb or > DONEGALEIRE-D-request@rootsweb.com In the email put just the word > unsubscribe. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ==== DONEGALEIRE Mailing List ==== > Try searching the Obituaries at Rootsweb: Interactive search > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/obituary/obituary.pl > To browse through the archives of the list go to > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Visit my homepage at http://freepages.genealogy.com/~donegaleire > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >