The tithes question has generated a lot if interest. Tir is Irish for land so Teernevin might mean Nevin's land. Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -----Original Message----- From: DLCulhane@cs.com Sender: irl-galway-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:16:02 To: <irl-galway@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: irl-galway@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-GALWAY] Kilmacduagh Tithes Question The words under Denomination are place names--Teernevin, Fawnen, etc. They appear next to another column headed Townlands. Sometimes the townland and the denomination are the same but usually they're not. In the broadest sense, denomination means name or category. As I said earlier, since there are more denominations than townlands listed, I'm guessing the denominations were subunits within the townlands. By the time of Griffith's most of the denominations were listed as townlands. Diane ------------------------------- 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