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    1. Re: [S-I] Registry of Deeds
    2. Sharon Oddie Brown
    3. I didn't know that. Another tool for the kit bag of research. Thanks Linde, Sharon Sharon Oddie Brown, Roberts Creek, BC, Canada. History Project: http://www.thesilverbowl.com/ On 10/02/2012 7:32 AM, Lunney Family wrote: > There might be other small points of interest; I was > looking at an 1808 deed yesterday re the small town of Portglenone, > co. Antrim; the property extended to a "line of gooseberry bushes"! > And another deed specified that the property was "commonly known by > the name Roughpark and Fourthpark"; these names go back most likely > to the enclosure of fields in the ?late seventeenth century?, but > even more interestingly, the "fourth" refers to a rath or a dun, > dating from the Iron Age, and thus might provide a clue to locate the > property on a modern or 19th c. map.

    02/10/2012 03:11:07