Hi, Jo - Per the all-Ireland townland search engine at the Leitrim-Roscommon website: Townland/acres/county/barony/civil parish/poor law union (nearest large town/registration district), province. Graiguenamanagh 356 Kilkenny Gowran Graiguenamanagh Thomastown Leinster It is noted that the townland also contains a town with the same name. Note the slightly different spelling for searching records. Sometimes placenames do change over time. John Grenham's "Tracing Your Irish Ancestors" has five pages specifically devoted to records available for research in Co. Kilkenny - i.e. censuses, census substitutes, extracts, ten trade directories, journals, history books, gravestone inscriptions, etc. The Griffith's Valuation for Kilkenny was taken in 1849-50, you should be able to find something on your surnames. In Grenham's book in the last pages is information on Church of Ireland Records in Dublin Repositories. He lists C of I records for "Graiguenamanagh Parish" are (1804-5 baptisms/1846-1933 marriages) at the RCBL (Representative Church Body Library) in Dublin. He also states that for "Gowran Parish" there are baptismal records for 1885-1997/marriages 1845-1956) at the same repository. Likely the LDS FHCs have filmed these as well. You might even want to investigate records for both Gowran and for Graiguenamanagh. You can also read more about Kilkenny records on the Internet. Jean xx ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:22 PM Subject: [IGW] Irish Census > Are there any census' available for Ireland and it's townlands? > Specifically, I am looking for James Murphy, born about 1849 in Graig-na-manaugh, County > Kilkenny. He was catholic and married Bridget Kavanaugh, born about 1851 > also in Graig-na-manaugh, County Kilkenny. They had five children, the first > being born in 1864; I think they probably got married in 1863 or there abouts. > The first child's name was John Murphy - 26 July 1864; the second Mary > Murphy - 19 May 1866; the third Matthew Murphy, 04 February 1869; the fourth > Charles Murphy, 25 May 1872, and the fifth was [my ggm] Johanna Mary Murphy born > 15 Feb 1877. All the children were born in Graig-na-manaugh, County > Kilkenny, Ireland. > > TIA - JO > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. >