Tag Archives: Townlands

Duplicate Place names, Detached Parishes and Half Baronies

Posted on 23 November 2024 by Shane

(published March 2015, updated Dec 2022, Nov 2024) There are a number of complications to finding exactly where a particular place of interest is located, even when the name is known. The first is often the spelling which can vary … Continue reading →

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Show list of all towns in Registration District (or P.L.U.)

Posted on 24 February 2016 by Shane

The new townland explorer may be used to show a list of all the town within any Superintendents Registrar’s District, more usually referred to as Registration Districts. Civil records are indexed by Registration districts and these appear in the original National GRO … Continue reading →

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