Margaret, This is more than likely a phonetic spelling of someplace name that is not spelled that way today, or which no longer exists - the name I mean. The only way you would ever be able to find out exactly where this place was or is would be through older documents such as the Tithe Applotment Books or Estate records. It's in resources such as these that we can soemtimes find spellings for places that are no longer used. For the moment, the only thing you will be able to work is the the surnames that you have - trying to find out where your surname or surnames occurred in County Galway in resources such as the Griffiths Primary Valuation, carried out in the 1850's for County Galway. Once you know where the surname or surname occured at that time, then you could try going to the Tithe Applotment Books for those civil parishes and see how the townland names are spelled in those earlier records c.1820's). Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "margaret ward" <tootsfoyward@yahoo.com> To: <IRL-GALWAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 8:38 PM Subject: [GALWAY] Liswaherrich/Galway. > Would appreciate hearing from someone with information on LISWAHERRICH, > can't seem to find anything myself so I am asking some