Mary, List, I have been researching Cournane's/Courtney's for a long time. The name is mangled as are most of our surnames. I haven't found it as Counihan before but I have found it as Curtayne which really should be Curtin, also Currane( Curran) and recently learned Crean might be a form. I have done lots of work on all the Courtney lines that settled in Worcester, MA and they are very tied to the Leahy's, Leary's, Falvey's, Murphy's, Donoghue's and Sullivan's. There is a Worcester Courtney family( 2 brothers) whose mother was Johanna Spillane, father Jeremiah, they were from Barleymount. A Gortahoonig branch, Jeremiah Courtney and Mary Leahy settled in Worcester and married into another Courtney branch from Cahir and Cooles. That branch was connected to Connells also. One of the Cooles Courtney females married a Counihan. The list goes on and on but I have come across all the towns you mentioned. Some of Minish branch ended up on College St. in Killarney then the children ended up in Worcester. Some of the Minish Courtney's lived in Kilgarvan and Glenflesk at the same time as mine but I can't seem to make a definite cousin connection. The townlands you mentioned are where my Courtney's lived. Teernaboul, Glenflesk etc. was their home at one point and the home of my Healy/Foran family was in Teernaboul. I just read a very interesting account of Teernaboul in a story entitled "Legend of the White Lady" which is a bit of Teernaboul folklore involving the McSweeney's of Teernaboul. It was in a book called "Legends Of The Lakes: Or Sayings And Doings At Killarney" Volume 2 by Thomas Crofton Croker, originally written in 1829. This is an interesting book, it can be found on google books or purchased for under $30 from Abe Books. A great read for anybody with Killarney area roots. Helen -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marysimpson Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 9:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Counihan & Sullivan families around Muckross and Killarney As it seems to be a bit quiet at the moment, I thought that I would put a question on the lists; When the OPRs came online I discovered a fair bit of additional info regarding my mothers family. My g g grandfather, Edmund Spillane married Julia Sullivan from Mynish in 1834. They farmed first in Lower Lissivigeen, then Lissivigeen before moving on and staying in Drumdiralough in the parish of Glenflesk, from the early 1840s onwards. I think that Edmund's family were also related to the McSweeny family of Killarney and Teernaboul. Julia Sullivan's father, Thomas Sullivan, had married Gobinet Counihan in 1805 in the parish of Killarney. On their marriage it stated that Thomas was from Cloghereen - which was a surprise - just above Muckross. Thomas and Gobinet's children were all born in Mynish ( Minish ). There seemed to be an awful lot of Sullivans and Counihans in and around Cloghereen - townland itself and also Upper and Lower, also Gortahoonig, Coolclogher and Faghbane. Gobinet's name crops up frequently as a sponsor on baptisms of other Counihans, Sullivans and Leahys around these townlands. The name Cournane also occurs and I was wondering if this was a version of Counihan? Do any of these surnames and places correspond to anybody else's family? Mary _______________ --------------- Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message