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Subject: Re: Whitemills, Loughrea
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:06:40 EST

Lois at writes:

> White Mills is scituated on a river just north of Loughrea town. Can
anyone tell me about Whitemills? Which RC parish would have Baptismal records for
Whitemills? <

Lois,

Based on your information on White Mills, I would guess that this might be
the small settlement (perhaps with a mill or two) at White Bridge, less than a
mile north of Loughrea town, along the R 350 road to New Inn (and the unwelcome
future superdump for Co. Galway). Discovery map 52 does show quite a
concentration of buildings right along the small river there which passes through
Loughrea town. This area would be within Loughrea RC parish.

> What is Larch Hill? Is it a part of a townland? The Baptismal records that
I found were in the Clostoken and Kilconieran RC parish. <

Searching the area of that RC parish, the only possible location I've been
able to connect to "Larch Hill" would be the small townland of Laughil. I'm not
sure I could create a very convincing history for how the transformation
occurred......could be really bad handwriting or really bad reading. But these
are local records, so I'd guess that the priest was fully familiar with the area
- which makes it difficult to make a connection between Larch Hill and
Laughil. Sorry, but that's all I've got.

Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts

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