In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, we wanted to share an interesting map called “Geo-Genealogy of Irish Surnames”. Some of you may remember it from the 2009 Esri International User Conference. This map won two awards in the Map Gallery Competition. It placed first in the “Most Uniqu...
Given a famous Irish tourist spot, find it on the map of Ireland, see how you score. Challenge your friends! Irish Country Quiz Have you ever found yourself looking at a map of Ireland, knowing which county you want to see, but starting your search in entirely the wrong place?
Free Irish Genealogy SearchThe Irish ancestry forums, find information on Irish genealogy and surnames, Clanns and links to A to Z of Irish surnames. Find your roots, your county , your town land, your people. AstrologyThe astrology forum will start afresh in 2007 ...
Given a famous Irish tourist spot, find it on the map of Ireland, see how you score. Challenge your friends! Irish Country Quiz Have you ever found yourself looking at a map of Ireland, knowing which county you want to see, but starting your search in entirely the wrong place?
1969 map of surnames in County Fermanagh from Chapter 31, "Fermanagh Families," in The Fermanagh Story by Rev. Peadar Livingstone, Cumann Seanchais Chlochair, 1969. Note the name Beggan on the border in the lower right quadrant of the map, which is the Clones area. 1979 map of surnames...
somebody seems to have changed Canan to Cathán because the name Ó Catháin (descendant of Cathán) is one of the commonest surnames in the area where Slaghtaverty is situated. However, as I’ve also said, the Ó Catháin family originally came from Donegal, so Cathán never lived anywhe...
My name is Debbie Heffernan Benko. I am researching my Irish roots on my father's side. His mother's parents came from Caherciveen, County Kerry, Ireland in 1901 and 1903, with cousins and other close relations a few years before and after. Relevant surnames include: Bowler, Sullivan, Co...
The father and son relationships shown in this table make it possible to guess at the interpretation of the patronymic surnames in genealogies that have been published only in Gaelic. An example is Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502 published in the Celtic Corpus of Electronic Texts. In the sixth...
If marked Y-DNA complexity exists regarding Fitzpatrick, a relatively uncommon Irish surname, then it is likely there will be similar complexity among many Irish surnames, some of which have a single origin narrative. 6. The Untapped Fiants and Patents For Irish seeking to discover their ancient...
in Jones County, Georgia. (The 1820 federal census of Jones County, Georgia, lists two entries for Robert McGough. Index to the 1820 Census of Georgia, Surnames, M-N, page 95,Genealogy.com.) They settled on a plantation five miles outside of Forsyth, Monroe county, Georgia, and raised...