You are correct, Diane. It is just a more specific location within a townland to help identify the property. I have seen this column in other tithe records, where it is sometimes called "Farm". (Yes, some farms in Ireland had names, as did some houses.) There were/are many names used locally in Ireland for particular areas within a townland, such as part of a hill, a farm, an individual field, etc. Sometimes people in the local area still know these places by these names. In tithe records and other older records, you sometimes see the older names for townlands (the pre-Ordnance Survey names), denominations within a townland and names of properties like house or farm names. The decision of what to call local places in records was not at all uniform from place to place within Ireland at the time of the tithes. By the time of Griffith's Valuation, the townland had been chosen officially by the government as the smallest denomination to appear in valuation records, census records, and other official government records, and the townland names had been standardized. Those standardized names are the townland names you see on official OS maps of Ireland, in Griffith's Valuation, in the 1901 census, etc. However, if you read through Catholic parish registers, you can still see some of the more local names in parish registers for years after, and sometimes the local spelling of a townland today still differs from the "official" OS spelling. Geralyn Wood Barry in Oregon On 2/19/2011 6:41 AM, DLCulhane@cs.com wrote: > I'm in the process of transcribing the Kilmacduagh Tithes and note that it > includes both townlands and denominations, side by side. There are more > denominations than townlands, which suggests to me that the denominations were > subdivisions of older townlands. Does anyone know the purpose of the two > listings? > > Diane >