Thanks for that good information, Mike. You've inspired me to try making something, too... Wanda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McGraw" <mfmcgraw@austin.rr.com> To: <irl-tipperary@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-TIP] The Neighbors in Ireland-LONG, FANNING, TUOHY, McGRATH > Hi Wanda, > > The maps come from the following sites. > > The AskAboutIreland site has a search capability for Griffith's Valuation > along with > images of the pages and a set of marked up 6" OS maps. The maps aren't > exactly in > sync with the GV but are probably synced with the 1st Cancelled Book. > http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml > The Ordnance Survey of Ireland site has a wonderful ability to do overlays > of historic > and modern maps. The satellite images are breath taking. > http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,591271,743300,0,10 > > Best regards, > Mike McGraw > Austin, TX > > -----Original Message----- > From: irl-tipperary-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:irl-tipperary-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Wanda Crawford > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 3:13 PM > To: irl-tipperary@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [IRL-TIP] The Neighbors in Ireland-LONG, FANNING, TUOHY, > McGRATH > > > Hello Michael, > > Congratulations for creating an interesting montage! How did you and Clare > obtain your aerial photograph? Is there a source (for other townlands) > that's accessible? > > Wanda Crawford > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael McGraw" <mfmcgraw@austin.rr.com> > To: <irl-tipperary@rootsweb.com>; <cotipperary@rootsweb.com>; > <irl-tip-kilnamanagh@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:00 AM > Subject: [IRL-TIP] The Neighbors in Ireland-LONG, FANNING, TUOHY, McGRATH > > >> To All Listers, >> >> > http://mcgrathsearch.com/files/The%20Neighbors%20in%20Ireland%2012-05-11.pdf >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- >> ---- >> >> >> The Neighbors in Ireland, by Michael F. McGraw and Clare Tuohy >> >> >> >> The Neighbors in Ireland opens a window that covers the Famine period in >> selected townlands of Moyaliff and Holycross parishes of Co. Tipperary. >> Most >> of the townlands studied are adjacent and their relatively small size >> allows >> the area to be truly described as a neighborhood. The Irish homesteads of >> the main families of Long, Fanning, Tuohy and McGrath were identified and >> described in detail. In the process the following were accomplished: >> >> q Methods were developed for the extraction of information from >> these >> records that allowed the tracking of individuals through the valuation >> data. >> >> q The migration paths of persons from the Irish neighborhood were >> determined. >> >> q New neighbors were found and relationships among these neighbors >> were explored. >> >> q An understanding of the environment, in which they lived and the >> choices that faced our ancestors, was developed in an attempt to answer >> the >> question: Why did they leave? >> >> >> >> The Field, House, Tenure and Cancelled Books, researched by one of the >> authors (Tuohy), contained a wealth of new source material. The analysis >> of >> that material provided a unique view into the lives of these ancestors >> during the Great Famine and as they were emerging from the famine. The >> information contained in the House Books was unique and priceless. They >> contained an inventory of every structure, on each farm, in every >> townland >> along with the dimensions of each structure, the materials of >> construction >> and their state of maintenance. It is possible to use the Griffith >> Valuation >> maps, with the information in the House Books, to develop a mental >> picture >> of these buildings. That is about as close as one is going to get to >> having >> a photograph of the ancestral homestead from that time period. >> >> >> >> This document was the result of a trans-Atlantic collaboration between >> Clare >> Tuohy, a Dublin, Ireland based researcher, who is descended from William >> Tuohy of Grange, Holycross parish, and myself, based in Austin, TX, who >> is >> descended from Michael McGrath of Moyaliff in Moyaliff parish. >> IGP County Tipperary website: >> http://www.igp-web.com/tipperary/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-TIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > IGP County Tipperary website: > http://www.igp-web.com/tipperary/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-TIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > IGP County Tipperary website: > http://www.igp-web.com/tipperary/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-TIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >