----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Cemetery look-ups/Attn Anne Morahan Kat, I realize that your letter wasn't directed to me, but I thought I'd start accumulating information on graveyards in this area anyway. There are quite a few......but the "starting point" of Newtown, Lissatunna, Ennistymon is giving me trouble. The townland of Lissatunna is about a mile WNW of Ennistymon town.......however, there does not seem to be an area, much less a townland, called Newtown in or around Lissatunna. Even the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch-scale maps do not show a settlement of Newtown. The nearest of the several Newton townlands in Co. Clare to Lissatunna is over a dozen miles to the NNE. I think I'll wait to see what Anne has to say before I dig a deeper hole [gr]. Pete - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML> Hi Pete, Never hesitate to jump into one of my conversations with someone else. The way I view it, the more, the merrier! :) As it was explained to me many years ago, Newtown is not a townland in its own right, but is rather a sub-division of the bigger townland of Lissatunna which, in turn, is an area of approximately 221 acres situated in the old Civil Parish of Kilmanaheen and the old Civil Parish of Clooney to form what is known as the ecclesiastical Parish of Ennistymon. On an old Ordnance Survey map, Lissatunna (Newtown) is sited just over 1 mile northwest of the town of Ennistymon. For anyone living in...... or familiar with....... the town of Ennistymon, I believe the route they would need to take to get to Newtown is to cross the road above the Falls, heading (Northwest) out of the town of Ennistymon. Just as a matter of interest (likely more mine than anyone else's! lol), our old Markham homestead remains intact to this day in Newtown. Last I had heard, it was owned by a German family who leases it. If anyone on this IRE-CLARE list lives in the Ennistymon/Newtown area and happens to know the names of the current owners or, better yet, how I could contact them, I would offer my last ovary in return for this information! You see, when my great-grandparents built this house, they added a plaque to one of the stone pillars holding a metal gate, located, I believe, at the rear of the property (difficult to determine front property from rear property in the few photos I have of the house and property). The plaque has our family name on it (Markham) and, written in Gaelic, are the words "I am cold" directly below the Markham name. Since the house and property have been consistently falling into disrepair (again, last I had heard), I would dearly love to have our family plaque back in the family again......here in the USA, since we no longer have family members living in Ireland. By the way, Pete, I'm also from Massachusetts. :) -Kat-