This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YWC.2ACI/4964 Message Board Post: Gortfadda Gort Fada = long garden Gortfadda J.O’Donovan Gortfada B.S.Sketch Gortfodda B.Norris Esq. Gortfodda High Constables Return Gortafadda County Map Gortfadda Surveyor & Valuers Report On the road from Mohill to Ballinamore and ½ mile south of Glebe House in Drumkilla Townland. Gortfadda is Abbey land, its eastern border is bog, the rest is mostly arable, consisting of a blue clay, overlying limestone. There are several good farmhouses in the townland. ___________________________________________________________ Roosky Ruscaig = a marsh, fen or morass Roosky J.O’Donovan Rooskey-Thompson B.S.Sketch Roosky County Map Rusky Surveyor & Valuers Report On the western shore of Creenagh Lough and bordering the parish of Cloone. The whole is arable and pastureland, there is a large village with gardens et cetera in it, but no other remarkable objects. ---------- Editor Note; It is suggested that Rooskey-Thompson stands for Thompson’s Marsh. However, the townland appears to have shrunk in size and was once; also it was known as [according to the registry of deeds in 1750]; as North Rosskey, South Rosskey and other Rosskey. Rooskey-Thompson has also been referred to in the deeds and Tythe Applotments. The necessity for these names appears to be due to divided ownership of the townland between various owners, notably the Crofton Estate and Clements Estate et al. I have also noted that Clooneene in Cloon Parish has acquired the name Clooneene Shanley in the Tythe Applotments.