Hi Jane, I already came upon this for another reason. From the October 1994 issue of Septs, the cover story, is where this excerpt has been taken: "In vol. 15, no. 3 of 'The Septs' we listed the townlands transferred from County Galway, Leitrim Barony, Clonrush and Inishcaltra Civil Parishes according to the research published by Patrick E. Dempsey. The enactment of the Local Government 1898 Act, Ireland made changes in the boundaries of County Clare. You will note the parishes (No. 8 & No. 20) shown on page 29 of 'A New Genealogical Atlas' by Brian Mitchell." My CLEARYs lived in Cloontyconnaught townland in Galway, and this was part of Inishcaltra Civil Parish. And even though the change took place in 1898, the 1901 census still reported this as Galway County, in 1911 census, it was properly reported as County Clare. So the 1901 census had all my CLEARYs reporting their place of birth as Galway County, and the 1911 census had them reporting their POB as Clare County. I would bet there were other reasons for boundary shifts in other areas of Ireland. BTW, the locals do not call their townland Cloontyconnaught, and probably never have. They currently call the place Clounty, previously called it Cloutha, Clonty, and am probably forgetting a few. My cousins farm was on the edge of the border, which shifted from one side of the farmhouse to the other. Best regards, Jim --- "Dr. Jane Lyons" <sniliaghin@iol.ie> wrote: > Figuratively speaking of course.............. > > but as regards being moved from one administrative division/district to > another on paper...........literally - from one county to another. ===== Jim McNamara Searching: McNAMARA-McGRATH, CLEARY-CONWAY, HANNA(H)-BRADY-McCORMICK-THOMPSON-CAIN-WAUGH-DAVIS-HUNTER __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail