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Motivation Monday: Irish place names with Geraldene O'Reilly webinar online now!

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Great news!

Our next family history talk is available online!

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Geraldene O'Reilly, convener of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Irish Interest Group gave us a talk about Irish townloads at our fortnightly Family History Lunchtime series event on Wednesday, 1 April.

Irish place names with Geraldene O'Reilly

The majority of Irish genealogy records are arranged by locality and most people within them are identified by the place name where they lived. The townland is the most fundamental land division in Ireland, the basic address for a rural family. 

Listen to Geraldene O'Reilly's talk to help you investigate Irish townlands and other place names.

 We hope that this gives you the motivation to start your Irish family history research!

 Happy hunting

 Seonaid

Location: 44 Lorne Street, Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

Tuesday's Tip: Irish Townlands

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‘Irish townlands are a puzzle and a joy. We shouldn’t throw them away.’

'To foreigners, and direct marketers, Irish townlands can seem like something from Alice in Wonderland. Where in rural Ireland do people live? In a townland. What’s a townland? It’s a place where people in rural Ireland live. The recurrent complaint is that only the local postman understands the local place names. But why exactly should that be a problem?'

Historic map of Ireland 1797 by cartographer Daniel Augustus Beaufort.

Click this link to read John Grenham's comments as posted January 6th on his Irish Roots blog on the place of townlands in Ireland and the current moves to introduce postcodes across Ireland.

For a list of all the materials held at the Research Centre relating to Ireland family history research including land records search the Auckland Libraries catalogue using the call number 4 IRL.

Maureen

Location: 44 Lorne Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
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