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Subject: Re: Re: [ROSCOMMON] FRAIN
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:58:28 +0000


Thanks Pete, that is certainly more info regarding the townlands than I could have provided.
Joan
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> Date: 2005/01/06 Thu PM 03:55:24 GMT
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> Subject: Re: [ROSCOMMON] FRAIN
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> Joan at writes (with a slight edit):
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> << Maybe Pete Schermerhorn might have a better idea of how to look into this
> >>
>
> Joan,
>
> I can probably give some townland guidance but, as I don't "do" any
> genealogy, I can't give any advice on records, archives, etc.
>
> In trying to relate the various entries you posted, to the townland of Clare
> in Co. Roscommon...... it doesn't look promising. The first entry, Laughlin
> (actually, Loughglinn), is the closest of the bunch to Clare townland - but
> it's still 15 to 20 miles to WNW of it. The other places are even more distant.
> Lowpark is part of the southern end of Charlestown, Co. Mayo and about 30
> miles away from Clare. Ballaghadereen is between Lowpark and Loughglinn, and
> shown on most maps. The RC parish of Athlone and Drum is equally 20 miles or so
> distant from Clare, to the south. I think that was all of them
>
> Doesn't look too fruitful.
>
>
> Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts
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