MSUFFDA@aol.com wrote: >Is Coolderry a parish or township ? ======= Scott Anderson <phssra@physics.emory.edu> wrote....... >>Coolderry is a townland (not township, that's an American/English term). It >>is located (it appears) on the border between the parishes of Magheross and >>Donaghmoyne. ========== Although listed below as being in the Donaghmoyne parish, I don't find it in my townlands of Donaghmoyne (112 of them) list. Hope you find the name you are researching below. Index to the Tithe Applotment Book for the Parish of Donaghmoyne, County Monaghan, Ireland (1823). Lists the surnames and firstnames in alphabetical order, followed by the townland name, and page reference to the original Tithe Book. Callan, Widow / Coolderry / 13 Dooley, Brian / Coolderry / 13 Dooley, Hugh / Coolderry / 13 Dooley, Owen / Coolderry / 13 Dooley, Pat / Coolderry / 13 Duffy, Pat / Coolderry / 13 Duffy, Tom / Coolderry / 13 Fitzsymons, Pat / Coolderry / 13 Fitzsymons, Peter / Coolderry / 13 Fitzsymons, Widow / Coolderry / 13 Hammil, Patrick / Coolderry / 13 Kelly, Owen / Coolderry / 13 Kelly, Pat / Coolderry / 13 McCanna, Pat / Coolderry / 13 Pratt, Harvey / Coolderry / 13 Wahely, Thelemy / Coolderry / 13 ========== COOLDERRY: Cu/l Doire ("Corner (or land)of the Oak Grove". (The "/" denotes a fada over the preceeding vowel) Sir Geo. Forster was a landlord there, owning 2,062 acres. Circa 1876. Definition is from a list of "Post Towns and Villages" in "The Monaghan Story", by Livingstone; Patrick Traynor, in California's gold-rush country. tray@jps.net