Dear David, I have not been actively researching County Longford for long, but I came across a book I plan to order. I have no idea what family names are mentioned other than O'Farrel and Kelly. "Longford Essays in County History", Raymond Gillespie & Gerard Moran, Editors ISBN # 0 946640 51 3 " A very valuable addition to our understanding of one county... any native of the county or anybody interested in history generally will find that it illumninates a hidden corner of the past"- Stephen Colins, The Sunday Press "Longford Essays in County History is the first full scale study of the county since 1886 in which 8 leading hsitorians combine to examine the issues of lnad, religion and politics form the 17th century to the present" You can find the review at: http://www.lilliputpress.ie/listbook.html?oid=2732953 I came across the book while searching for Dowdalls in County Longford. Part of the review - "The book concludes with Documents in Longford History - valuable source material for reader and local hsitorian- from hitherto unpublished 1682 'Description of the County of Longford 'by Nicholas DOWDALL, to Arthur Young's 1776 Tour... Some Dowdalls from County Longford immigrated to Perth, Canada in the 1800s. There was a Father Patrick Sylvester Dowdall in Canada. I am trying to connect the modern Dowdall families with the the 1500-1700 Dowdalls. I am working on the canonization of Venerable James Dowdall who was a merchant mariner, born in Drogheda and martyred in Exeter in 1599. Hopefully I will be able to locate his descendants. The Dowdalls originated in County Louth and then through marriage gained lands in Counties Dublin, Meath, Westmeath and County Longford (in the 1600s) as well as a few other areas. An aricle about Venerable James Dowdall was published in Seanchas Ard Mhacha (Armagh Diocesan Historical Journal) in 2004. Since so little was known about James before the article, my goal is to get his story told. My daughter placed the article and abbreviated article about him as well as some other information on a website. www.jamesdowdallmartyr.com Also a great source for history are the Irish historical journals. You never know where you will find some information about your family Thaddeus Breen has an excellent website which lists most of the Irish historical journals with the issue numbers and table of contents. There is a journal for County Longford which you probably already know about but in case others might not know - Teathbha- Journal of the Longford Historical Society. Published at irregular intervals since 1969. Current volume: Vol. 2 No 4 (Nov 1997), but a new issue is expected this year. National Library of Ireland call number Ir 94131 t1. List of contents since 1969 Thaddeus Breen's website: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tbreen/journals.html Archaeological and Historical Journals Issues with Table of Contents Beannachtai, Margaret (Máiread)

Dear Margaret, What a wonderful wealth of material you have opened to us! You are truely a scholar-- and a generous one. I will certainly pursue your leads. David Daibheid At 07:20 PM 3/19/2008, you wrote: >Dear David, > >I have not been actively researching County Longford for long, but I came >across a book I plan to order. I have no idea what family names are >mentioned other than O'Farrel and Kelly. > >"Longford Essays in County History", Raymond Gillespie & Gerard Moran, >Editors >ISBN # 0 946640 51 3 > >" A very valuable addition to our understanding of one county... any native >of the county or anybody interested in history generally will find that it >illumninates a hidden corner of the past"- Stephen Colins, The Sunday Press > >"Longford Essays in County History is the first full scale study of the >county since 1886 in which 8 leading hsitorians combine to examine the >issues of lnad, religion and politics form the 17th century to the present" > >You can find the review at: >http://www.lilliputpress.ie/listbook.html?oid=2732953 > >I came across the book while searching for Dowdalls in County Longford. >Part of the review - >"The book concludes with Documents in Longford History - valuable source >material for reader and local hsitorian- from hitherto unpublished 1682 >'Description of the County of Longford 'by Nicholas DOWDALL, to Arthur >Young's 1776 Tour... > >Some Dowdalls from County Longford immigrated to Perth, Canada in the 1800s. >There was a Father Patrick Sylvester Dowdall in Canada. I am trying to >connect the modern Dowdall families with the the 1500-1700 Dowdalls. I am >working on the canonization of Venerable James Dowdall who was a merchant >mariner, born in Drogheda and martyred in Exeter in 1599. Hopefully I will >be able to locate his descendants. The Dowdalls originated in County Louth >and then through marriage gained lands in Counties Dublin, Meath, Westmeath >and County Longford (in the 1600s) as well as a few other areas. > >An aricle about Venerable James Dowdall was published in Seanchas Ard Mhacha >(Armagh Diocesan Historical Journal) in 2004. Since so little was known >about James before the article, my goal is to get his story told. My >daughter placed the article and abbreviated article about him as well as >some other information on a website. > >www.jamesdowdallmartyr.com > >Also a great source for history are the Irish historical journals. You >never know where you will find some information about your family Thaddeus >Breen has an excellent website which lists most of the Irish historical >journals with the issue numbers and table of contents. There is a journal >for County Longford which you probably already know about but in case others >might not know - > >Teathbha- >Journal of the Longford Historical Society. Published at irregular intervals >since 1969. Current volume: Vol. 2 No 4 (Nov 1997), but a new issue is >expected this year. >National Library of Ireland call number Ir 94131 t1. >List of contents since 1969 > >Thaddeus Breen's website: >http://www.xs4all.nl/~tbreen/journals.html >Archaeological and Historical Journals >Issues with Table of Contents > >Beannachtai, >Margaret (Máiread) > > > > >********************************** >Longford Genealogy Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllog/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an >email to IRL-LONGFORD-request@rootsweb.com with >the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the >subject and the body of the message