Hi Liam, I absolutely agree that Google Earth is a fantastic piece of software. I've enjoyed it for many months now and thank you for pointing out the recent additions of brilliantly detailed images of Donegal, Derry etc. Let's hope they will succeed in completing the full mosaic of the island in due course ! I hope my reply to the question asking if Donegal Town and Donegal City were the same didn't appear dismissive or brusque - not my intention at all. I have to agree in light of your Google results that confusion abounds about the status of Donegal Town/City. I suppose I should have qualified my reply to the earlier query by saying that certainly in Donegal, or indeed Ireland, it is never referred to as a city. It was always referred to locally as Donegal Town. There are no cities currently in County Donegal - at least to my knowledge. Letterkenny Town Council recently however passed a motion to explore the possibility of gaining City status in the future. I contend that the "uphill struggle of educating....re Donegal conurbations" is in no way made easier by the proliferation of 1.7m inaccurate references on the web to "Donegal City". All of the websites you mention contain excellent examples of such inaccuracies, but my favourite has to be a certain florist "based within Donegal who has daily deliveries locally to Artane, Killester, Beaumont, Fairview and Whitehall and throughout the greater Donegal Area." All 5 areas named are suburbs of Dublin, 160 miles away! The openness of the web, the automated methodologies of search engines and design of data-entry web forms all contribute to such confusion. My apologies to all for drifting somewhat from our genealogical theme, but I suppose there is a moral for us all in this - that the worldwide web is a wonderful tool for us in our research, but should always be treated with a wee bit of healthy suspicion! John (born Ballyshannon......15 miles from Donegal Town) > From: L.Martin@zen.co.uk > To: irl-co-donegal@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 21:53:18 +0100 > Subject: Re: [IRL-CO-DONEGAL] Google Genealogy > > Dear John > > Re: "Donegal Town is never referred to as a city." > > Confusion about the status of the Donegal metropolis appears to abound > throughout the internet. > > The URL http://www.irelandscape.com/display_location.php?location_id=380 > speaks of Donegal City Centre > > One can have an Aerlingus break in Donegal City at URL > http://www.aerlingusvacationstore.com/vacations/ireland-city-donegal > > There is Donegal City at > http://www.euroave.com/index_ave.php?gocountry=ireland&gocity=donegal > > The URL http://www.donegalflorist.com/ promises to deliver flowers to > Donegal City > > The term - Donegal town Ireland - returns 127,000 hits on Google but the > term - Donegal city Ireland- returns 1,700,000 hits. > > I cannot dispute your claim regarding Donegal town/City, never having been > to the place but I can say that in County Antrim we have a more fluid > attitude towards metropolitan nomenclature - my home town, Ballymena, is > referred to as the City of the Seven Towers (and that's stretching it a > bit). They even refer to Belfast as a city. > > The task of educating the uninformed about the status of Donegal > conurbations will be an uphill struggle seing as you disparagingly refer to > even your largest, Letterkenny, as a town as well. Don't you have any > cities in the County at all? > > I hope you enjoyed the Google Earth maps of Donegal? > > Best regards > > Liam > > "A bird in the bush is worth two in the cat" > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Lawler" <john_p_lawler@hotmail.com> > To: <irl-co-donegal@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 5:48 PM > Subject: Re: [IRL-CO-DONEGAL] Google Genealogy > > > > > > Donegal Town is never referred to as a city. The population of the town > > in 2006 was only 2339, and Donegal is the 5th largest town in County > > Donegal - Letterkenny being the largest with a 2006 population of 17,586. > > The 2006 Census gives the population of County Donegal as a whole as > > 147,264. > > > > Regards, > > John Lawler > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CO-DONEGAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ It’s time to join the family - Get the next generation of Free Windows Live Services now! http://get.live.com/