Shannah Following up your query about Bansha: I found the townland in Kerry through Ed Finn's wonderful site at http://www.seanruad.com/cgi-bin/iresch This database will patch together all the townlands, civil parishes, baronies and Poor Law Unions (PLU) in Ireland. You can get a print-out of any number of 60 000+ townlands with the associated details. Yours reads as follows (assuming it's the right one - I'm sure it is): Townland: BANSHAGH Acres: 310 Civil Parish: Killorglin Barony: Trughhanacmy PLU: Killarney and, obviously, County Kerry in the Province of Munster. If you have land there I'm very envious. Here is a delicious snippet about the Palatines in Kerry, taken from the GROVES TRANSCRIPTS which I shall continue to post at intervals soon. The sheer genius of these German immigrants calls for some serious reflection - remember we are dealing with bogland here: ***START HERE*** From J King's History of Co Kerry p.146 Palatines at Arabella in Ballymacelligott parish: Col. Hassett brought a colony of Palatines from Co Limerick about 1746 and settled them near Tralee. About 1776 there were 16 families small farmers. Each settler in 1746 got a cow a horse and everything they wanted for a year, besides having the land for half its value. They introduced ploughing with a wheel plough and planted their potatoes in drills. They brought in cars with wheels as there were only sliding cars before…. ***END HERE*** I think our Jamboree in 2009 should begin with a journey in wooden buckets (along the route suggested by Ken - from start to finish) and we should drift between townlands on sliding cars. What a hoot ... I will do name searches for anyone, not just Hazel, of course. As regards TWISS, I can't tell you much more than Hank Jones does in "The Palatine Families of Ireland". Like the author, I can't find the name in the important London lists - although I have tracked down many others that are missing from the book. If you don't have that information, by the way, I can send it to you off-link. Bye bye, Shannah Terry
--- [email protected] wrote: > Shannah > > Following up your query about Bansha: I found the > townland in Kerry through > Ed Finn's wonderful site at > > http://www.seanruad.com/cgi-bin/iresch > >Shannah, The website wouldn't work for me as you typed it. Came up with an error. Sue Rogers __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Sue, Thank you so much for the enclosed. Shannah ----- Original Message ----- From: Sue Rogers <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [IP] TWISS family > > --- [email protected] wrote: > > Shannah > > > > Following up your query about Bansha: I found the > > townland in Kerry through > > Ed Finn's wonderful site at > > > > http://www.seanruad.com/cgi-bin/iresch > > > >Shannah, > The website wouldn't work for me as you typed it. > Came up with an error. > Sue Rogers > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > > ==== IRL-PALATINE Mailing List ==== > My folks didn't come over on the Mayflower, but > they were there to meet the boat. Will Rogers > >