In my experience, for what it is worth, persons born in Ireland normally mean the townland. The only time that most people reference civil parishes is if they are talking about official records. Nancy Gray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fay Finn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:26 AM Subject: [MEATH] townland question > Just a general question: How can a person find out what townland an > ancestor is from? Mine is from Kildalkey, but that is the name of a civil > parish as well as a townland. There are dozens of townlands in that civil > parish. When people said where they were from, did they usually mean the > townland or the parish? Thanks. Fay > > > ==== IRL-MEATH Mailing List ==== > County Meath and County Westmeath are up for adoption. They combined were the ancient Province of Meath. When the King of Meath didn't play good with other Kings, his kingdom was absorbed by Leinster and Ulster. > If interested, Contact list admin: [email protected] >