Not sure if this has already been posted but one of the best sites for looking for townlands that I have come across is: http://www.seanruad.com/ Very easy to search for even a part of the name you have - this is great if the spelling has become a bit 'mangled'. Regards, Patsy - New Zealand Website: http://www.loanegenealogy.webs.com Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 9:22 PM Subject: Townlands > You will find more info on this if you use 'Factbites' as your search > engine. In the searchbox, put ' Townlands of Co.Cork' > I'm not saying you will find that townland but there's more info here. > Maggie the Dub

Thanks Patsy, You are correct it is Derrylahan. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia O'Shea" <maisieskid@slingshot.co.nz> To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 8:45 PM Subject: Re: Townlands > Hi John, I notice the original reference to this name mentions Dunmanaway > as > the parish. > > Looking on a list of townlands for Dunmanaway there is one possibility, > which you may already have considered and discarded, and that is > Derrylahan. > I wonder if the priest abbreviated the name and it then looked like > Dinlahan?? (or had bad handwriting!!) > > Just a thought. > > The lister Maggie mentioned is, I think, Pete who signs himself Peter > Scherm - he has great knowledge of townlands and his views would be worth > having on this. > > Best wishes, Patsy - New Zealand > > Website: > http://www.loanegenealogy.webs.com > > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 10:03 PM > Subject: Re: Townlands > > >> Thanks Patsy, >> >> I don't believe there is such a place as Dinlahan. The priest must have >> been >> somewhere else when he entered the information in the parish records. >> >> John...Sydney > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Maggie. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Doyle" <johnmaggie11@yahoo.co.uk> To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 7:42 PM Subject: Looking for townlands > The IreAtlas townland database from seanruad.com. There's a guy on this > site you can contact for help with finding old townlands. > Cheers. Maggie the Dub > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Patsy, I don't believe there is such a place as Dinlahan. The priest must have been somewhere else when he entered the information in the parish records. John...Sydney

Thanks Maggie.; John...Sydney Maggie wrote...... > You will find more info on this if you use 'Factbites' as your search > engine. In the searchbox, put ' Townlands of Co.Cork' > I'm not saying you will find that townland but there's more info here. > Maggie the Dub > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Do you know when they came from Cork? have you checked ship and naturalization records? If you don't have any more info than the name Riordan and County Cork as a location you're not likely to have much luck. You need to look at as many US records as you can possibly find and try to find a more specific location. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy Smith" <dorfysmith@yahoo.com> To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 7:57 AM Subject: Re: Townlands > How do we search for a family when we only know they came from Co., Cork > and the > name is Riordan???? > Dot in New Hampshire USA

Most of my Irish names are not a problem Stafford, Carberry, Collins, Murphy and many others this one had me stumped. By the way had my directions wrong. The Doheney name was mostly in the South East. Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Doyle" <johnmaggie11@yahoo.co.uk> To: irl-cork@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, October 4, 2010 3:52:15 AM Subject: Names/Varients I agree with the Dennahy/Dennaghy varients. I have an old document with the name Kearns. On looking up churcrecords at Irishgeneology, I found the right person because all the other names like sponsers are the same but the name here is spelt Kernes. I've been told by an archivist that they wrote it as they heard it + used their own form of shorthand.      Maggie the Dub   ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Patsy wrote: === The lister Maggie mentioned is, I think, Pete who signs himself Peter Scherm - he has great knowledge of townlands and his views would be worth having on this. === Jan (the original writer) and I have gone through this particular placename search since Feb. 2007 [gr], including my looking at an image of the document. I tentatively read it as "Dromilesheen". At that time, I had gone through the townland listings, Townland Index maps, the names given to some of the 249 undefined burial grounds (mostly Children's Burial Grounds - Cilliní) and the 948 identified - and often named - ringforts (raths, lisheens). Nothing there. No villages with a suitable name seem to appear on the Discovery maps. I have recently communicated to Jan what I think are the next best sources to examine (and which I don't have access to). At the website: www.placenames.ie there are references to a unique collection of volumes of Cork placenames, which are available only in Cork City. The other possibility would be the six-inch maps of the area. I don't have access to any of these for Co. Cork, but the probable numbers of the OS maps for Dunmanway RC parish would be 93/4, 106/7/8, 120/1. It's possible that Drumlisheen (or such) is just a local "sub-division" or settlement within a townland. That's about the extent of our investigation, thus far. Perhaps someone has access to these six-inch maps and could take a look for Jan (!!). Pete - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML>

SandyY <sandyyd@tpg.com.au> asked on the Cork list: >Does anyone have access to the actual archives of the Cork Examiner, >please? I've googled myself silly - even searched the 19th British >Newspapers Online - Freeman's Journal - and cannot find the information >below. I found this information on Ireland Old News Index and would >dearly love to have the transcript, especially for the first William >WILKINSON whom I believe is probably related to my 3xgt grandfather. >(They operated a Musical Academy together at one time in the 1840s and >WAW emigrated to Melbourne.) >WILKINSON, William A; Dublin DUB IRL, St Kilda Melbourne AUS; Cork >Examiner (COR IRL); 1864-12-23; dja From The Cork Examiner, 23 December 1864 - On the 17th of October last, Mr. Wm. A. Wilkinson, of Wodouga Cottage, St. Kilda, Melbourne, and formerly of Mountjoy square, Dublin. >WILKINSON, William Ker A; 16; Dublin DUB IRL; Cork Examiner (COR IRL); >1865-6-20; dja From The Cork Examiner, 20 June 1865 - On the 17th inst., at 15, Lower Baggot-street, Dublin, at 9 a.m., of consumption, William Ker A. Wilkinson, aged 16 years In addition, you might be interested that in June of 2008 TG Wilkinson <tgwilkinson@hotmail.com> asked for: WILKINSON, Joseph Norton; 31; Enniscorthy WEX>Dublin DUB IRL; Cork Examiner (COR IRL); 1861-11-20; dja From The Cork Examiner, 20 November 1861 - November 17, at Bushfield-avenue, Dublin, in the 32d year of his age, Mr. Joseph Norton Wilkinson, formerly of Enniscorthy, county Wexford. WILKINSON, Sarah "relict of William" ( ); 87; Dublin DUB IRL; Cork Examiner (COR IRL); 1866-1-12; dja From The Cork Examiner, 12 January 1866 - At the residence of her son-in-law, Bushfield avenue, in the 88th year of her age, Sarah, relict of the late Mr. William Wilkinson, of Enniscorthy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Irish Death Notice Database ahern@world.std.com | http://www.irelandoldnews.com/obits/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The IreAtlas townland database from seanruad.com. There's a guy on this site you can contact for help with finding old townlands. Cheers. Maggie the Dub

You will find more info on this if you use 'Factbites' as your search engine. In the searchbox, put ' Townlands of Co.Cork' I'm not saying you will find that townland but there's more info here. Maggie the Dub

How do we search for a family when we only know they came from Co., Cork and the name is Riordan???? Dot in New Hampshire USA ________________________________ From: Patricia O'Shea <maisieskid@slingshot.co.nz> To: irl-cork@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, October 4, 2010 4:28:27 AM Subject: Re: Townlands Not sure if this has already been posted but one of the best sites for looking for townlands that I have come across is: http://www.seanruad.com/ Very easy to search for even a part of the name you have - this is great if the spelling has become a bit 'mangled'. Regards, Patsy - New Zealand Website: http://www.loanegenealogy.webs.com Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 9:22 PM Subject: Townlands > You will find more info on this if you use 'Factbites' as your search > engine. In the searchbox, put ' Townlands of Co.Cork' > I'm not saying you will find that townland but there's more info here. > Maggie the Dub ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I agree with the Dennahy/Dennaghy varients. I have an old document with the name Kearns. On looking up churcrecords at Irishgeneology, I found the right person because all the other names like sponsers are the same but the name here is spelt Kernes. I've been told by an archivist that they wrote it as they heard it + used their own form of shorthand. Maggie the Dub

Thanks Helen and Bill for the Doheny and Dennehy choices. Lots of hits. Most of the Doheny's are from South West think the Dennehy's are worth a look. Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "h hitchcock" <h.hitchcock@comcast.net> To: irl-cork@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, October 3, 2010 11:12:47 PM Subject: Re: Deheny Could it be Doheny? Helen Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: rolfes@comcast.net Sender: irl-cork-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 00:03:12 To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: irl-cork@rootsweb.com Subject: Deheny Trying to help a friend. His rellie is found in 1880 census New York 22 from Ireland. She lived at the Buckingham Hotel as a chambermaid. Family lore says she is from Killarney. In searching 1901 and 1911 census as well as the Griffith's the name is a rare. None in census and only 4 in all of Ire in Griffith's. I searched as Deheny/Deheney/Dahany.  Anyone have knowledge of this name. I keep wondering if it should be Delaney. Joan                                                    ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message   ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Could it be Doheny? Helen Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: rolfes@comcast.net Sender: irl-cork-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 00:03:12 To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: irl-cork@rootsweb.com Subject: Deheny Trying to help a friend. His rellie is found in 1880 census New York 22 from Ireland. She lived at the Buckingham Hotel as a chambermaid. Family lore says she is from Killarney. In searching 1901 and 1911 census as well as the Griffith's the name is a rare. None in census and only 4 in all of Ire in Griffith's. I searched as Deheny/Deheney/Dahany.  Anyone have knowledge of this name. I keep wondering if it should be Delaney. Joan                                                  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Trying to help a friend. His rellie is found in 1880 census New York 22 from Ireland. She lived at the Buckingham Hotel as a chambermaid. Family lore says she is from Killarney. In searching 1901 and 1911 census as well as the Griffith's the name is a rare. None in census and only 4 in all of Ire in Griffith's. I searched as Deheny/Deheney/Dahany.  Anyone have knowledge of this name. I keep wondering if it should be Delaney. Joan                                                 

In all probability it is Den(n)ehy - a name definitely found in County Kerry. Bill Fahy www.westcorkgenealogy.com

Try this search string in Google. Be sure to be exact. A possibility for you appeared. Also, consider drom*   cork ~townland (drum*) Good luck!   Pat --- On Sun, 10/3/10, irl-cork-request@rootsweb.com <irl-cork-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: From: irl-cork-request@rootsweb.com <irl-cork-request@rootsweb.com> Subject: IRL-CORK Digest, Vol 5, Issue 207 To: irl-cork@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, October 3, 2010, 12:00 AM Today's Topics:    1. Old Townlands (Margaret Doyle) To contact the IRL-CORK list administrator, send an email to IRL-CORK-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the IRL-CORK mailing list, send an email to IRL-CORK@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text.

Maggie, thank you for checking. Church registers, to my knowledge, list townlands, not names of houses. There were many different families that I listed who had the name of that townland written down in parish registers. I wouldn't think that many families would have lived in the same house. I am trying to track one particular family but have found no other Mahonys having that townland listed so I was trying to learn if this townland had been absorbed by another townland or if the name had been changed so I could check Mahonys who lived in the "other" townland. I will have to rethink. Thanks, again, Maggie.

Hello Listers I've just joined this list, and for some reason I can't search the List archives with Opera. Might have to try another e.g. IE. Does anyone have access to the actual archives of the Cork Examiner, please? I've googled myself silly - even searched the 19th British Newspapers Online - Freeman's Journal - and cannot find the information below. I found this information on Ireland Old News Index and would dearly love to have the transcript, especially for the first William WILKINSON whom I believe is probably related to my 3xgt grandfather. (They operated a Musical Academy together at one time in the 1840s and WAW emigrated to Melbourne.) Deaths WILKINSON, William A; Dublin DUB IRL, St Kilda Melbourne AUS; Cork Examiner (COR IRL); 1864-12-23; dja WILKINSON, William Ker A; 16; Dublin DUB IRL; Cork Examiner (COR IRL); 1865-6-20; dja Thank you, Sandra PS Able to do some Aussie lookups if required.