There is an area of Ballysteen (as I mentioned earlier in the week) still referred to as Westropps. Have never really heard the name Davenport mentioned before.
Is that map private or publicly viewable?
[QUOTE=“TreatyStones, post: 1097851, member: 1786”]There is an area of Ballysteen (as I mentioned earlier in the week) still referred to as Westropps. Have never really heard the name Davenport mentioned before.
Is that map private or publicly viewable?[/QUOTE]
Private, but now public.o_O… I’ve had to do the same for Tipperary, Laois, Offaly, Clare, Roscommon and Leitrim
PM me a link there. Would be interested in looking at the local ones.
I made that map, mate… sure can’t you see the state of the boundary lines- What are you looking for exactly ? I can zoom in and fire on … @ciarancareyshurlingarmy is the man for local history.
Off topic, Kilkenny town centre was French speaking in the 18th century. Sheffelin is a heugenot name I’d imagine?
Zoom in on Askeaton/Ballysteen there CM
[QUOTE=“TreatyStones, post: 1097851, member: 1786”]There is an area of Ballysteen (as I mentioned earlier in the week) still referred to as Westropps. Have never really heard the name Davenport mentioned before.
Is that map private or publicly viewable?[/QUOTE]
Sounds like the Davenports are long gone
http://www.iverusresearchfoundation.com/ballinacourtyhouse_jmf.cfm
How about I whack up the list of names altogether ?
DL= Deputy Lieutenant for county
PG= Poor law Guardian
BG = Board of guardians
Sheriff=High Sheriff
GJ= Grand Jury - basically county council for its day.
[QUOTE=“ChocolateMice, post: 1097864, member: 168”]How about I whack up the list of names altogether ?
DL= Deputy Lieutenant for county
PG= Poor law Guardian
BG = Board of guardians
Sheriff=High Sheriff
GJ= Grand Jury - basically county council for its day.[/QUOTE]
If you want a bit of Trivia the Nash listed there was an ancestor of this fella http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Carrol_Naish
Lovely…
The De Veres were the big whigs out your way. Mainly Currachase, but they mingled with the best of em.
[QUOTE=“ChocolateMice, post: 1097864, member: 168”]How about I whack up the list of names altogether ?
DL= Deputy Lieutenant for county
PG= Poor law Guardian
BG = Board of guardians
Sheriff=High Sheriff
GJ= Grand Jury - basically county council for its day.[/QUOTE]
The Croker fella listed there gave rise to a West Limerick expression as well.
After living a very comfortable life as Lord of the Manor etc, he was being comforted on his death bed by a priest who said to him you are going to a better place. Croker looked up and said to him “I doubt it”.
You’d still sometimes here auld lads say “I doubt it says Croker” instead of just I’d doubt it.
[QUOTE=“ChocolateMice, post: 1097871, member: 168”]Lovely…
The De Veres were the big wigs out your way. Mainly Currachase, but they mingled with the best of em.[/QUOTE]
Aubrey De Vere, the poet, was one of them, he is buried in the grave yard in the protestant church in Askeaton. Vere Wynne Jones, the RTE news reader, was also one of them.
Thesis by Jennifer Ridden ‘Making Good Citizens’ on some of these families, including Aubrey De Vere if you want to read it- Basically about the more liberal landed aristocracy in Limerick vs the cunts.
I can confirm that Mount Pellier got it’s name due to the spa in the vicinity. MP was a famous spa town in France and others emulated it- Cheltenham has a mount-pellier spa and Castleconnel was a well known Irish spa town in the 19th century… Of course the most famous of them all is the town of Spa in Belgium. It was the Lourdes of its day and was frequented by the elite of Europe throughout the latter half of the 18th c. As late as the 1850s a Limerick magistrate, T.P Vokes, is recorded dying there, obviously Castle-Connell wasn’t good enough for him.
Where is / was the spa waters in castleconnell?
There’s loads of spas in Castleconnell