Since "ros" means "headland" in Irish, and since Ireland is an island, I guess there must be heck of a lot of Rosses there, heh heh. Pádraig (the Paddy that was) System firewalled with ZoneAlarm Pro and regularly caulked with Microsoft Critical Updates. System and outgoing e-mails scanned with automatically-updated Norton Antivirus 2002. And a hearty thank-you to those who take similar precautions and thereby prevent their address books from being hijacked and used to send me spam, viruses, worms, scumware and other undesirable stuff. -----Original Message----- From: IRL-GALWAY-L-request@rootsweb.com [mailto:IRL-GALWAY-L-request@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of PeteScherm@aol.com Sent: 09 December 2004 00:22 To: IRL-GALWAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GALWAY] Re: Ross David at david.soule@maine.edu writes: << Or Ross Island??? Does anything like this exist in County Galway? >> Well, David........ I think we have enough Rosses to satisfy you. There's one out on the south shore of Ballynakill Harbor, far in the west of Galway about 3 miles east of Cleggan. It's in Ballynakill civil parish, but the one in Ballynahinch Barony. There are three other Ballynakill civil parish locations in Co. Galway, and the one in Leitrim Barony is the site of another Ross townland.......... about as far from Ross #1 as you can get in the county. It's about 6 miles SE of Loughrea town. There are two other Ross townlands, between the Ballynakill ones. One is in Killannin civil parish (it's actually a "Ross Demesne") about 5 miles SE of Oughterard town, along Ross Lake near the N 59. The last Ross is across Lough Corrib, up on the Mayo border about a mile NW of Headford. It's the site of the fine Ross Errilly friary, in Killursa civil parish. If you really need an island location, there is Rossroe Island in Kilcummin CP. It's a mile or two north of Carraroe and about 2 miles NW of Rossaveel, where the ferry goes to the Aran Islands. And, of course, there are many more townlands starting with "Ross" in Co. Galway. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts ==== IRL-GALWAY Mailing List ==== Join an Ireland list that discusses Irish genealogy, history, and culture. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/IRELAND.html ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx