I know that every sane body on the lists is off on holiday / vacation so I might post this again later but there are a couple of things that I would like to see if anyone else has views about. 1. Has anyone else noticed that on the askaboutireland Griffith's Valuation website, the printed maps and the lists don't correlate? There are often more people and plots listed than appear on the maps - and it's usually the ones that don't show on the maps that are the ones you are interested in. But it's still an invaluable resource. 2. I have been reading with great interest the Killarney Workhouse Minute Books that Ray kindly told us about this month - and attempting to do so with some degree of dispassion and even handedness - but something niggled me. During this period our Kerry families continued to farm, have children every couple of years or even every year, and, as far as I know, they seemed to have all survived. They leased farms of different sizes, some larger than others - from about twenty acres to one hundred and twenty, but the larger farms were on poorer land. And a lot of them left Kerry for England and Australia in the early 1860s. Does this mean that they were just lucky? The Minute Books report that the potato crop had failed in every parish, so were some places particularly hard hit? Our family were from Glenflesk, Killarney, and Castlemaine / Milltown. Mary

Mary Yes I have noticed some quirks with the AIA Griffith's also. As a result I usually work with a window of Google map open and often the older internet version of Griffiths at the same time. john On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:13 AM, marysimpson <marymcs@talktalk.net> wrote: > I know that every sane body on the lists is off on holiday / vacation > so I might post this again later but there are a couple of things that > I would like to see if anyone else has views about. > > 1. Has anyone else noticed that on the askaboutireland Griffith's > Valuation website, the printed maps and the lists don't correlate? > There are often more people and plots listed than appear on the maps - > and it's usually the ones that don't show on the maps that are the > ones you are interested in. But it's still an invaluable resource. > > 2. I have been reading with great interest the Killarney Workhouse > Minute Books that Ray kindly told us about this month - and > attempting to do so with some degree of dispassion and even handedness > - but something niggled me. During this period our Kerry families > continued to farm, have children every couple of years or even every > year, and, as far as I know, they seemed to have all survived. They > leased farms of different sizes, some larger than others - from about > twenty acres to one hundred and twenty, but the larger farms were on > poorer land. And a lot of them left Kerry for England and Australia in > the early 1860s. Does this mean that they were just lucky? The Minute > Books report that the potato crop had failed in every parish, so were > some places particularly hard hit? Our family were from Glenflesk, > Killarney, and Castlemaine / Milltown. > > Mary > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >