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    1. Re: [SH] Townlands & villages
    2. Melissa Harrison
    3. I must have missed an email - what URLS were posted? Thank! melissa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Byrne" <fbstoddard@snet.net> To: <SHAMROCK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 11:22 PM Subject: [SH] Townlands & villages > Listers: > > Ellen Naliboff's recent posting of URLs which take you to maps, atlases > and directories of Irish placenames proved immediately and extremely > helpful. The "seanruad" site was particularly useful to me. I had > ancestors placed in the parish of Annageliffe in Co. Cavan, but the > seanruad site brought up about 40 townlands ranging from 25 to more than > 400 acres in size, and included a number of names for these townlands I > could not locate via other sources. I'm planning a September trip to > Cavan City, a few miles from these townlands, and this information alone > will let me narrow my searching, visiting and poking about to acreage, > rather than square miles. > > Excellent tool, Ellen, really excellent. Or, as they say in Cavan, > "Brilliant, Ellen, brilliant!" > Thank you on behalf of the whole list. > > Byrne (Lynch) Stoddard > Guilford, CT > (searching Lynch, Breen, Byrne, Maguire) >

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