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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Kerry => Topic started by: shanew147 on Wednesday 25 May 11 18:07 BST (UK)
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following extract is from a Royal Marine record, and shows a place of birth... any ideas where it refers to ?
posting on behalf of fifer1947
thanks,
Shane
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Thank you for that Shane. ;D
I think the second word is Killarney (bad K) as the officer has written double "L" elsewhere with different sized letters. Hopefully someone might recognise a place from the phonetic sound around the Killarney area.
All suggestions gratefully received. :)
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There are lots of place in Killarney Poor Law Union, Co. Kerry that start with Caher... but only one in Killarney civil parish is Cahernane.
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for what's worth, my reading of the townland name is Coherciowar - so maybe something that sounds like that ?
I assume that Killarney in this case would either mean the post-town or maybe the civil parish, or poor law union
Shane
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Shane
Agree with your reading but its a puzzle. if you play around with what might be a phonetic spelling of the place the beginning is possibly Caher but nothing fits the ending. The only two that might come near seem to be Cahersavane and Cahersiveen/Caherciveen but I'm not convinced either are possible.
annclare
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it does looks like Caherciveen if you squint - but that's over 60 km away from Killarney..
Shane
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Thank you all for your input ...... boy it's a corker! :-[
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Maybe a clue would help??
His father (also John) was a ferryman and this John my gt grandfather was a 21 year (at least) man with the Royal Marines. So I'm thinking near water loch or sea with a ferry??
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Killarney is not that close to the sea... about 30km to ether Kilorglan or Kenmare
I think I mentioned Tarbert as a possibility before, but that's 70km to the north of Killarney.
Killarney is beside the lakes - I'm sure there were boats - but would there have been ferries ?
Shane
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I know Shane. :-\
I fell in love with Killarney when I visited in the 60's, little did I think I had a connection. :P
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Wondering if this writing is so very bad I'm seeing what isn't there! ::)
Could this be something like CoherciRvar? That is an R and V instead of a W.
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I would go along with Killarney for the second word. I've seen 'via Killarney' on addresses in Sneem, which is almost as far as Cahirciveen from Killarney. Cahirciveen had ferries - to Valentia Island, and to a place referred to locally as 'over the water' (use is so common that I cannot for now remember its correct name! :-[ )
Rs
K.
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There is a place named Currow in Killarney, might not be the right place though.
Why don't you email the Killarney library at killarney@kerrylibrary.ie and ask them. They are sure to be able to solve the
riddle for you.
Mary
Celtic Liberty