Hello Rachael, If you visit www.ulsterancestry.com and click on "Townlands of Ulster" button you can get an explanation of the townland and a Full list of all townlands in each of the Ulster Counties. Hopefully maps to go with these will be added very soon Robert >From: "Rachel" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Derry] Township / townland >Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 19:10:51 -0000 > >David has been busy with look-ups of what remains of the 1831 census. I >notice that the CD gives a location as 'township'. I looked it up as I >thought it might have been a mis-rendering of townland. Of the few I >looked at the location seems to be either the Irish parish or town. >I assume the index was produced in USA - hence the very un-Irish township. > > I'd be interested to know the definition of 'township' - does it equate >to our 'town'. In case anyone new to Irish locations is confused the PRONI >website has a good article on townlands. > >Rachel > >Spellcheck says townland is not in the dictionary -too right it isn't. > > >==== NIR-DERRY Mailing List ==== >~~ The List's Golden Rule ~~ >Keep to genealogy, history, anything ancestors! Keep it Clean & Cool! >Treat others like you want them to treat you ... But *NO* selling! > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail