Thanks Karin for the info! regards Nancy On Jun 30, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Karin A. Joyce wrote: > Nancy, > yes that is how the addresses are in Ireland and everyone knows each other > and the post man would know where to deliver it. The addresses are a > combination of a townland, the nearest village and sometimes the nearest > town on top of that. Sometimes, you would see: name, village, Co. Galway. > No more than that. > > Even in town, they don't use house numbers on the older houses. They all > have a designated house number. But for instance, Old Galway Road, Loughrea > would find the resident. More recently, the numbers are being added. > > The government uses more proper addresses and the mailmen would have to know > that "Woodville" is really "Carrowsteelagh". > > The addresses of rural Ireland are an art. > > Karin > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nancy M. Lyons" <nancyml@comcast.net> > To: <IRL-GALWAY@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 8:04 PM > Subject: [IRL-GALWAY] Newtown Gort > > >> Newtown Gort, is the address given for someone listed in the Irish >> telephone book. Is this the correct way to address a letter to that person >> aside from Galway and Ireland? >> >> Thanks >> >> Nancy >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-GALWAY-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-GALWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message