If anyone wants to download for free a list of Townland Names without breach of copyright, it is available at http://www.heritagedata.ie/en/Placenames/Townlands/. This is an Irish Government web site and is subject to usual conditions, i.e. personal use only. One problem however with this data is that it dos not include Civil Parish name. John "Dennis Ahern" <ahern@world.std.com> wrote in message news:dgagvo$vqm$1@pcls4.std.com... > Never anonymous Bud <newskat@katxyzkave.net> wrote: > > : I have a CD copy of an 1851 book, with what is supposed to be ALL the > : townlands of Ireland. If anyone would like a copy, it's over 4 megs > : compressed, and opens to an 18 meg Excel spreadsheet with over 65000 > : entries. > > Issues of copyright infringement aside, why would anyone want to do this > when the 1851 book was used as the source material for the IreAtlas > database at http://www.seanruad.com > > -dja >

John Malone <jjmalone@eircom.net> wrote: : If anyone wants to download for free a list of Townland Names without breach : of copyright, it is available at : http://www.heritagedata.ie/en/Placenames/Townlands/. This is an Irish This is particularly useful as it is based on townlands listed in the 1861 census, whereas the IreAtlas database is based on the 1851 census. -dja