CavanTownlands, an essential site for anyone with ancestors from County Cavan, has moved to an 'ie' domain. You can now freely enjoy all the maps, stories, insights and historical statistics at https://cavantownlands.ie. Cork/Corcaigh:Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 31, by Howard B Clarke...
To give his town some status, Sir St John Brodrick needed to have it raised to a corporate borough. The first draft of the Charter was completed in 1668, but there was a problem – it listed all the townlands he had been granted but omitted one – the townland of Corabbey which he ...
Fig. 3. Map of Ireland with geographic location of case study sites and individual site maps (Peatlands are often located within multiple townlands, demarcated in the maps in Fig. 3 with white lines). These peatland sites were chosen as each is associated with a local community group who is...
For many of the Irish diaspora, a pilgrimage home to their ancestors’ townlands is an integral part of their life’s journey. However, what if the townland, parish, or even county is unknown, and all that is known is that they are Irish? The finding of place has been a recurrent ...