Trish wrote: "However, the point of my Irish search is to find the land upon which my > great-grandfather walked. I would be there in a "heartbeat" if I could only > locate it. I don't want to make claim to it...don't want anything other > than to walk it myself. But he was apparently from Western Cork...a place > with a large set of records, not even available for purchase, or searching, > unless you know exactly what you want. Now gosh, if I knew that...wouldn't > I be there myself?" I may have missed the beginning of this thread, but I was once in the same position and managed to track down various great-greats' land in West Cork. I'm not sure where you're having trouble. Do you have the family names? A townland or two? Griffith's Valuation is searchable for surnames, and if you have more than one family name, all the better. There are maps associated with the Griffith's listings. If you've tried all this, I apologize. Sheila Connolly (of the Connollys of Knocksagh, near Skibbereen, and the Regans of Drinagh West) **************Choose the home loan that saves you the most $$$. Agents available at ditech.com (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221374924x1201371434/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fclk.atdmt.com%2FDEG%2Fgo%2F153724534%2Fdirect%2F0 1%2F)

>Trish wrote: "However, the point of my Irish search is to find the land >upon which my > > great-grandfather walked. Sorry, I wasn't following the thread, but the Tithe Applotments can also give connections between names and land for the time around 1830. They are indexed on CD at many Family History Centers, and then you have to do some eye-burning prowling in the microfilm. If this option is not available, I will be happy to do some preliminary searching. If you can verify the townland where the ancestor lived in the Tithe Applotments, you may then be able to pinpoint the plot on the maps which accompany online versions of Griffith's Valuation. It is not an exact matching process, but it can be useful. Sometimes this is the only option because many families left the land in the 1840's, before the survey on which Griffith's is based, and thus their names do not show. Let me know if I can help. Best regards, Brent

Unfortunately, my "Hagertie" ancestors left Cork in the mid 1820s. We do know what townlands some of the family lived in, but so far I haven't been able to identify any land records that go back that far? According to Kilmeen parish baptism records, my ggg grandparents, William Hagertie and his wife Elizabeth Beamish lived in Kildee in April 1816, Maulitanvally in July 1819; Elizabeth died there and William and 4 children emigrated to Canada in 1823. Other parish records for William's siblings place his sister Amelia in Kildee when she married in July 1810--she later emigrated to the USA; brother James in Kildee in 1813 and in Ballygurteen from April 1815 to Sept 1825 (emigrated to Canada in 1827) and a letter dated 1815 indicates they left Kildee at that time; sister Jane Boyd, wife of James, lived in Maulitanvally in Feb 1816--they emig to USA in 1821; and brother George lived in Ballygurteen from Sept 1821 until Aug 1824 and emig to Canada in 1827 and then to USA a few years later. Sharon Haggerty Bowen Island, BC http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sharonmh/Haggertie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Banta" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:16 AM Subject: Re: Finding the land in West Cork > Sorry, I wasn't following the thread, but the Tithe Applotments can > also give connections between names and land for the time around > 1830.