Sharon, The year 1864 -- date that my gfather was born. His own father was dead by 1900 when my grandfather was married. Some place I said my gfather was married in 1901. The census shows that gfather was married and his own father deceased. His first child was born in 1901. [It is bad to have huge age gaps between the generations!] Sad to say, my father did not always tell the truth, so the story might not be true. I spoke to his brother once and Bernie could have been the one to tell me. Since Bernie died about 1984, that was a long time ago. If Bernie was the one, I'd believe him. With my father, I do not know. Bernie had just had a phone line run to the farm. I have not been able to go to a LDS library for a long time. It is far away and through terrible traffic. Yes, I could go to a local one, but it does not have the files the far away one has. Thank you for telling me. Alanna

Alanna, your inquiry was: Do you know of a land lord "some what" near Cappanagerrah? ...My father talked about walking a cow home and he was not happy with that cow... Anyway, he might have had to go to the landlord to get her. Either he or someone else said that the landlord really liked my gfather and gave him title to the land. My kin were there since say the late 1700's or early 1800's. I am guessing that the handling over of the title would have been sometime from 1864 when he was born to 1921. My father said that there were old towers all over the area. I do not remember if he said that the landlord lived in a "castle" or not." The Landowners list, popularly attributed to 1875, lists these Scanlans as owning property at Cappanageragh, Ballynacally: Bartholomew 9 acres James 30 acres There are at least 5 other men owning similar acreage on that townland, according to the same list: Michael Brown 79 acres Denis Hinchy 14 acres John King 67 acres Patrick McMahon 15 acres Thomas Maloney 76 acres I doubt that any of them were the involved landlord, but, if you really want to the answer and are willing to spend some time on it, then you can research what any of those men had to say about their property or, as I indicated before, just order into your local FHC the right film with the Registry of Deeds indexing for this townland. There is a way to get to the answer but it takes work on your part and, yes, some expense on gas and film rental. I do not know whether you have consulted this Landowners list previously, as you did not mention it when setting out your inquiry, but it has been available on the Internet for over five years. My copy is a photocopy made many years ago from a Porland, Maine library book which I obtained (for free) via interlibrary loan. There are some basic materials, in addition to basic knowledge, which can be kept on hand and prove useful time and time again. Having gone over some other of my hard-copy materials (still have not unzipped my computer files), I see that the major landlords in this area in the early to mid 1800s included Stackpoole and Ross-Lewin, the latter of whom is listed in the Landowners list with his Clondegad residence called Ross Hill being shown as in Killadysert, which seems strange to me. Sharon C. On 4/28/07, Alanna Scanlon <alannal@prodigy.net> wrote: > > Sharon, > > The year 1864 -- date that my gfather was born. His own father was dead > by 1900 when my grandfather was married. Some place I said my gfather was > married in 1901. The census shows that gfather was married and his own > father deceased. His first child was born in 1901. [It is bad to have huge > age gaps between the generations!] > > Sad to say, my father did not always tell the truth, so the story might > not be true. I spoke to his brother once and Bernie could have been the one > to tell me. Since Bernie died about 1984, that was a long time ago. If > Bernie was the one, I'd believe him. With my father, I do not know. Bernie > had just had a phone line run to the farm. > > I have not been able to go to a LDS library for a long time. It is far > away and through terrible traffic. Yes, I could go to a local one, but it > does not have the files the far away one has. > > Thank you for telling me. > > Alanna > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CLARE-PROJECTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >