Killanin, Clare, Ire
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Killanin, Clare, Ire
Is anyone familiar with the location "Killanin, Clare, Ire". I have a baptismal record that states the birth location as "Killanin, Clare, Ire" but do not know where this is located. The individual was known to have lived in Letteragh and Furroor in the Kilmaley parish.
Re: Killanin, Clare, Ire
Looked on the Clare Library website for Killanin among the addresses for the 1821 List of Freeholders, and 1841 Applicants to the Registry of Freeholders, (both under "On Line Records") and among the addresses for the 1829 applicants for Freehold donated by Andrew Kenny (see Registers, Rent Rolls & Leases under "Donated Material"), but did not find Killanin. Could it be a version of Killian, a townland in the parish of Templemaley? The surnames of the tenants in Templemaley liable for Tithes in 1825 were James (as a surname), Kean and Baker. Do any of these match your individual?
Sheila
Sheila
Re: Killanin, Clare, Ire
A search of the Clare library website for Killanin (using the main search engine at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/search.html) yields one placename mentioned in "Fortifications in the Shannon Estuary and Galway Bay by Paul M. Kerrigan" at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... ations.htm. This refers to the construction of "a fort on ‘Killanin’ promontory, which appears to be Kilkerin Point". Kilkerin Fort, in the Shannon Estuary, is shown here http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,509360,650688,7,10.
There are two townlands called Killanena in Clare. See the townland list at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... nland3.htm.
Hope that's of help.
Mike
There are two townlands called Killanena in Clare. See the townland list at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... nland3.htm.
Hope that's of help.
Mike
Re: Killanin, Clare, Ire
Letteragh is a townland in the parish of Kilmaley. Letteragh is in the District Electoral Division of Furroor, which is in the Dispensary or Registration district of Killanniv, which is in the Poor Law Union (or Superintendent Registrar's District) of Ennis.
I have often seen Killanniv mis-spelled as Killannin or Killanin.
There is also a townland called Furroor which is in the same parish and administrative divisions as Letteragh. It is not the only townland called Furroor in county Clare.
While you wrote "baptismal record", I suspect from your use of quotation marks that the placename that you have is from a transcription of a civil birth record at familysearch.org; I've never seen either the county or country written explicitly in a baptismal record before - the church usually uses the parish and diocese (Killaloe) to identify the location.
The more questions like this I answer, the more I sympathise with those who are confused by all the overlapping subdivisions of Ireland that crop up in genealogical research!
I have often seen Killanniv mis-spelled as Killannin or Killanin.
There is also a townland called Furroor which is in the same parish and administrative divisions as Letteragh. It is not the only townland called Furroor in county Clare.
While you wrote "baptismal record", I suspect from your use of quotation marks that the placename that you have is from a transcription of a civil birth record at familysearch.org; I've never seen either the county or country written explicitly in a baptismal record before - the church usually uses the parish and diocese (Killaloe) to identify the location.
The more questions like this I answer, the more I sympathise with those who are confused by all the overlapping subdivisions of Ireland that crop up in genealogical research!