Have you checked out the IGW County Tipperary website lately? If you are searching your family history in this county, you should check out the site and bookmark it to refer to later. It is located at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irltip/tipperary.htm The middle of the home page of the site, has the categories of the website and if you click on them, they will take you to another page within the site. Check out the Townlands button. You will come upon a page that has an index for every townland located in Co Tipperary, divided by North and South Ridings. There are over 3,000 townlands in Co Tipperary and so far there is a webpage for over 1,000 of them. Each webpage gives the civil parish, the RC parish, the barony and the Poor Law Union where the townland is located. The page will also give Family History Library film numbers for townland records such as censuses, tithe applotments and the Griffith's Valuations. There are also some links related to the townland plus a surname registry where you can add your surname. Also you may find pictures, records and maps that people have contributed to the site. There is a section devoted to County Tipperary Civil Parishes. On the CP index map, you will find maps of the North and South Ridings with the civil parish colored in for all the CPs online. Each CP page is similiar to the townland page. Plus there are maps of the CP with the townlands deliniated plus a list of all the townlands (and links to their pages) in the CP. The Records sections has links to many websites where there are Co Tipperary records located. It is sectioned off by types of records with descriptions of the records. There are also sections for Maps, Poor Law Unions, Surnames, and Resources. Check out this site, it is a must for County Tipperary researchers. The IGW Tipperary website is constantly evolving. Townland, Civil Parish pages are being added with each new update of the site. If you would like to know about updates to this site and other Ireland GenWeb county websites, there is an announcement list you can join at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/WorldGenWeb/IGW.html This is not a discussion list but when updates are made to the various IGW county websites, they are announced on this list. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com