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From: "Sharon Kavanagh" <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] "Falbow" Co Carlow
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:19:52 -0700
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Hi Gary - Altho you've probably thought of all this, here goes:

Two questions about 'Falbow." Is it spoken information about the family
spending time there? Or written?

If spoken, I'd look for anything that sounds remotely like 'fal' + 'bow.'
However, is that fal as in Al, or fal as in Fall? Which vowel sound? And,
is that bow as in bow-tie or bow as in a curtsey? You could look for any 2
syllable town that rhymed with those two sounds.

F could be PH, of course, in a list of townlands. Also, if spoken, that F
could be anything: for example, S, TH, etc.

If your family info was written information, how was it spelled?

And a 3rd question, is there anyway to know (speculate) if this townland
could have been on a border?

Sharon Kavanagh




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Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] "Falbow" Co Carlow


> I've been researching about 40 18th century Kavanagh families from South
> Carlow. Recently I received information about one of them showing up in
> Australia. There was a marriage and three children entered into the
> Borris, Co Carlow
> RC Register in the mid 19th century. According to information from
> Australia
> they must have moved elsewhere in Ireland prior to their settling in
> Australia. The information associated with their family says that they
> spent time in
> "Falbow" Co Carlow after Borris and prior to Australia. There is
> definitely
> not a location named Falbow in either Borris or St Mullins (lower)
> Parish. In
> searching the townsland index I cannot find anything that comes at all
> close
> to Falbow in Carlow (nor in Kilkenny or Wexford). In fact, nothing close
> comes back from my search in the whole of Ireland.
>
> Is anyone familiar with this location ? Any ideas
>
> appreciate any thoughts on this
>
> Gary Cavanaugh
>
>
>
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