The late John Broderick, under the name of Sean Ruan, left us a legacy. These searches allow you to locate any townland, parish or village in each of Ireland's thirty two counties. http://www.seanruad.com/ You can also use wildcards. Mapquest.com can get to the parish but not the townland. Ellen "dennis john newton" <dennis@iplay.net.au> wrote: >Hi all, >Just in case anyone is interested www.gould.com.au has copies for sale, they >are located in South Australia. >This is not an advertisement for them although I buy most of my genealogy >gear from them. >Dennis Newton. >Victoria, Australia. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Rod WARNOCK" <rwarnock@idx.com.au> >To: <FIANNA-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:49 PM >Subject: Re: [FIANNA-L] Villages in Tipperary > > >> Hi Dennis >> >> If you are near a LDS Centre they wil have a copy for you to browse. >> At least Charlestown NSW has one. >> >> Regars >> >> Rod Warnock >> KIiaben Bay NSW >> Australia >> At 09:35 PM 30/10/02 +1100, you wrote: >> >Just wondering if "The 1851 Index to Towns, Townlands and Parishes of >> >Ireland" might >> >be a book, and if so where could a copy be obtained. >> > >> >Dennis Newton >> >Victoria, Australia. >> > >> > >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: <Pt17don@aol.com> >> >To: <FIANNA-L@rootsweb.com> >> >Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:20 AM >> >Subject: Re: [FIANNA-L] Villages in Tipperary >> > >> > >> > > in ireland parishes are mostly made up of TOWNLANDS these are >rural >> > > areas, bog, grazing, farming and open fields. they all had names >and >> >you >> > > would not know one from the other only that you would stop a a local >> > > farmhouse and ask the names of the townlands in the area. there are >over >> > > 80,000 of them in ireland and thats why you wont find them on most >maps. >> > > most are not near any town or city but are out in the boondocks >> >MOYNEARD A >> > > TOWNLAND of 711 acres in the PARISH OF MOYNE AND IN THE POOR LAW UNION >OF >> > > THURLES IN COUNTY TIPPERARY. >> > > >> > > THE ABOVE INFORMATION COMES FROM THE 1851 INDEX TO TOWNS, TOWNLANDS >AND >> > > PARISHES OF IRELAND. >> > >> > >> >==== FIANNA Mailing List ==== >> >Need some help getting started with irc (INTERNET RELAY CHAT)? >> >Try: http://home.flash.net/~gen4m/ >> >> ______________________________ > > >==== FIANNA Mailing List ==== >If you are leaving your current ISP, please unsubscribe! >Digest Fianna-D-request@rootsweb.com >List Fianna-L-request@rootsweb.com >only one word in body of message UNSUBSCRIBE >No signature/No nothing! > > __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/