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The data in that lost webpage seems to have been reposted at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/us ... 5page.html

Re: "I wonder how did the Griffith work relate to the work done by John O'Donovan in his Field Surveys." See "In County Clare, standardisation of townland names and boundaries took place during the survey carried out by the Ordnance Survey of 1842. These townland names and boundaries were used in th...

As Shiela has said above, you can find older townland names - not used by the Ordnance Survey - in Freeholders lists, and the Tithe Applotments (see the Clare Townlands page on the Clare Library site at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/townlands/townland.htm). Older maps are also sour...

Hello Rae. Have you seen the stuff on the Clare Library site about Ballyvaughan? From the library homepage http://www.clarelibrary.ie/ select Place & Placenames, then select Towns & Villages, then select Alphabetical Listing of Towns and Villages, and you'll see the link there for Ballyvaughan - be ...

(The piece below appears on http://searchengineland.com/facebook-introduces-private-groups-52388) "Facebook said that there would be three types of groups: open, closed and secret. Open: these groups will essentially be entirely public; people will be able to see members and the group’s content; Clo...

The main difference between a closed Facebook group and forums like this is that the Facebook material is not available to anyone searching the web. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, is very clear on the dangers of 'closed silos of content': The piece below is quoted from http://w...

Hello Ian if you look at the "Combined list of surnames which occur in the 1901 Census of Population of County Clare, the Griffith's Valuation 1855 of County Clare, and the Tithe Applotment Books (1820s-1840s) for County Clare, including the number of occurences for each surname collected in each so...

Hello John. It looks to me to be spelled as Kalourin, which sounds like Killuran, the name of a Civil Parish and townland in Clare. Here's a link to the parish http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/killurane.htm, and to the townland http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/townlands...

Hello Mark. I happened to be passing through Lissycasey this morning so I called in to the post office there and asked the postmistress if she'd ever heard of Relagh/Realagh. She did know of a Realagh Lodge, which had been inhabited by a Collins family and was now owned by the Hills family. She pron...

P.W. Joyce in his book "The origin and history of Irish names of places", refers to the placename 'Relagh' - although not in County Clare. http://www.archive.org/stream/originhistoryofi01joycuoft/originhistoryofi01joycuoft_djvu.txt ---------------- Reidh [ray] signifies a plain, a level field ; it i...

In his History and Topography of the County of Clare, James Frost states that "The land of county Clare was reserved for ‘Innocent Papists’, i.e. Catholics from other counties who had not taken arms against Cromwell but were transplanted to make room for new English settlers, and also to the O’Brien...

This should help you to familiarise yourself with NewMarket On Fergus
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... oftown.htm

Generally, in County Clare, if you have someone's name and a townland or village you will be able to send them a letter or card. Postmen in rural areas of Ireland are founts of local knowledge, as there are no postcodes or zipcodes to help them. It takes a lot of training to become a rural postman. ...

Diane,
there's quite a bit of information on the history of education in Clare on the Clare library website at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... cation.htm.
Mike

Seán Spellissy's book The Merchants of Ennis (published 1996) contains this about the O'Shaughnessys of Ennis: The O'SHAUGHNESSY family originated in what later became the barony of Kiltartan in County Galway. They must have been here [in Ennis] prior to 1740, when Matthew Shaughnessy was appointed ...