Actually, if I look at the obit again...the spelling of the townland may be KillnaClough rather than Killnaulough. Still can't find it in Galway! Cathy
Hi Cathy - Kiltallagh, Co. Galway might added to your "mysterious placename" list. Curious, do any of your JOYNT families have a known connection to Co. Mayo or Co. Wexford? You probably have already checked, but on the 1901 Census database (ongoing project at the Leitrim-Roscommon website), a "head of household" search reveals ten JOYNT and one JOINT households on the 1901 Co. Mayo census. Then, if you conduct an "others enumerated in household" search," you find that there are JOYNT individuals enumerated in five households in Co. Mayo and one in Co. Wexford, some working as servants. There is a limited amount of data for Co. Galway, and I didn't find any JOYNT or variations. Found on a "soundex search," there is a JANNET household with the head born in Scotland on the 1901 Co. Wexford census. Longshot & Rambling -- In "Tracing Your Irish Ancestors," by John Grenham, he mentions a placename in his chapter on County Galway called Kilmacduagh, which almost sounds like like what you are looking for. Per Grenham, there are some gravestone inscriptions for that location in "The Irish Ancestor," Vol. VII, No. 1, 1975. Then being curious, I checked for that townland on the 1901 Census data at the Leitrim-Roscommon website, found only one family (MOLLOY) transcribed so far, listed as living in Kilmacduagh, which is shown there as being located in Co. Mayo! It appears from another website that the Catholic Diocese of "Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora" covers parts of Mayo, Galway and Clare, so MAYBE that might that placename could be one to consider. In an old Catholic book transcribed to the Internet, Kilmacduagh (AKA Kilmacogh) is a Catholic "see," does that mean a diocese? My dictionary says a "see" is a the official seat or jurisdiction of a bishop. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:41 PM Subject: [IRELAND] Killnaulough or Killnaclough - still can't find it! > Actually, if I look at the obit again...the spelling of the townland may > be > KillnaClough rather than Killnaulough. > Still can't find it in Galway! > > Cathy