Peter or others, Try sending an email to Eamon Lankford at the placenames website, he may be able to help for more obscure placenames. He's a cousin of mine and has been working for several years on the place names project. www.placenames.ie The below links are for online OS maps of Ireland. A lister had posted this link some time age, it is very useful and should be bookmarked. The first has online searchable maps, the positioning and enlarging of any particular area takes a bit of practice. If you want the old 6" per mile series click on its link first and then enlarge and position as needed. I tried Dunmanway, the detail is quite good. If the publicviewer link won't work as I posted it try the second one and click on Map Viewer. http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,591271,743300,0 http://shop.osi.ie/Shop/Products/Default.aspx#historic Colman Ahern. Berkeley Calif. On 10/4/2010 9:37 AM, PeteScherm@aol.com wrote: > 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> > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >