Jan & Des at [email protected] writes: << In several, she is asked that return mail be addressed to a person in Roscrea, then later, a CONACRE postmark appears on envelpoes. >> Jan & Des, As you want a location in the Roscrea area, I think we can eliminate the homophonic townland of Coniker, up in Durrow civil parish. However, the other homophone of Conicker townland, in Ettagh CP, seems more plausible. It is located just to the north of the N 62 national road, about 3 miles NW of Roscrea town. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts

A wonderful simple website to look at for this ..... http://www.iol.ie/~batespd/kenweb/parish.htm http://www.esatclear.ie/~kilcolman/index.htm cheers cara ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [SH] CONACRE - THE PLACE IN OFFALLY > Jan & Des at [email protected] writes: > > << In several, she is asked that return mail be addressed to a person in > Roscrea, then later, a CONACRE postmark appears on envelpoes. >> > > Jan & Des, > > As you want a location in the Roscrea area, I think we can eliminate the > homophonic townland of Coniker, up in Durrow civil parish. However, the > other homophone of Conicker townland, in Ettagh CP, seems more plausible. It > is located just to the north of the N 62 national road, about 3 miles NW of > Roscrea town. > > Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts > > > ==== SHAMROCK Mailing List ==== > ** Please remember - no flames, chain > letters, virus warnings or off topic > posts are allowed on the SHAMROCK > list ** >