The table below shows the number of Cournane households in each county in the Primary Valuation property survey of 1848-64. Click on a county name for a breakdown of the number of households by parish (paying). Kerry 133 SURNAME DICTIONARY/ SLOINNTE NA h-EIREANN Cournane rare: Kerry. Ir. Ó Curnáin. Generally anglicised Courtney in Kerry. Woulfe refers to the Breifne name Ó Cuirnín and Curnán of Kilcornan, Limerick, is quoted. GPN. The table below shows the number of Rahilly households in each county in the Primary Valuation property survey of 1848-64. Click on a county name for a breakdown of the number of households by parish (paying). Clare 2 Cork 55 Cork city 1 Galway 1 Kerry 87 Limerick 17 Mayo 1 Tipperary 3 Waterford 1 O'Rahilly Quite numerous: Kerry etc. Ir. Ó Raithile. Originally a branch of Cinéal Eoghain in Ulster, the name has long been associated with Kerry. IF. Rahilly fairly rare: Cork-Kerry etc. See O'Rahilly. Hi James - Well, sure looks like Kerry IS where your RAHILLY and COURNANE families originated. Having said that - the secret to successful genealogy is to start with your parents and work backwards in time gathering all documents and information you can on your family from the known places they lived. You can't assume that someone with the same name in an old record is "yours." If you go to the website www.ireland.com/ancestor/ you will find more information on these surnames and variations found on the Primary Valuation (Griffith's) from 1846-64. On a surname search of RAHILLY and then adding COURNANE on the "second surname" search you are shown that those two names only appeared together in a particular parish or parishes in Co. Kerry. For a small fee, they will tell you in which parish/es BOTH names are found; this can be very important, as people most often married within their own parish. Searching the web, I thought I had found more info for you but it turned out to be your own colorful and nicely constructed "Raghallaigh" website. Ardfert CP contains 38 townlands and also Ardfert Town, which you can call up in a group by entering Ardfert in the CP field on the all-Ireland IreAtlas at the Leitrim-Roscommon website. Castle Island Townland would appear to have a different CP, i.e., Castleisland, with the Poor Law Union (largest near town/reg.district of Tralee). *** If you have a reference to Ardfert on a document of a known family member that would be a significant finding, a good place to concentrate your research. Your families appeared to be of the Catholic faith, but there are surviving Church of Ireland records to include Castlisland as well as Tralee (AKA Ratass). There are also gravestones inscriptions to include (but not limited to) Castleisland and Tralee in what appears to be a set of books found in the National Library (Dublin) edited by A. CASEY called "O'Kief, Coshe Mang" (vols. 6 & 8, respectively). Some of this data has been transcribed to the Internet. There is also a book by a T. O'CONNOR entitled "Ardfert In Times Past," published in Tralee in 1990 that you might be interested in. What is your book about? Jean CASTLE ISLAND T. xx Kerry Trughanacmy Castleisland Tralee Munster Townland AKA Acres County Barony Civil Parish PLU Province ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:40 PM Subject: [IRELAND] Rahilly / Riley - Co. Kerry research help needed, PLEASE? > Hi! > > Just sent off a note for some help on the local (US > side) and as you've seen (if you reviewed that note), > I think we are getting there (all the way to our > actual Irish connection). My dad would have loved > this and I am fining it fascinating! > > But, as mentioned, I am not even at the amateur level > and need lots of help (please?). > > Okay, so we have the link, Cornelius (Rahilly) > Riley...but I don't even have a clue about searching > Irish records, so, if anyone has any CD's or records > or access to records. Can you please help? > > Here is what I have so far: > > parents: > > Ty Rahilly and Mary Cournane > - (no other information) - > > children: > > Cornelius Timothy Mortimer Daniel Jeremiah > Born: 1829 unk. unk. unk. unk. > Bap:8/15/1830 1/15/26 1/15/26 5/10/35 1/16/42 > all five (5) children baptized Roman Catholic > all five (5) baptisms in Castleisland, Co. Kerry > - (no other information) - > > *Note: on his immigration papers, Cornelius reports > his home as Ardfert Parish > > So, if there is anyone out there who can help, this > would be fantastic! > > Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving! > > James E. F. Riley, Sr. > http://www.lulu.com/content/210331 > James E. F. Riley, Sr. > Author, 'Daydreams & Nightmares'