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Title: Birthplace - can't read
Post by: PatrickBull on Friday 23 September 16 15:21 BST (UK)
Hi, Can anyone read the birthplace from this certificate? It's in the Newry district in Northern Ireland.
Title: Re: Birthplace - can't read
Post by: Rosinish on Friday 23 September 16 15:25 BST (UK)
Carry Keeney?

Annie
Title: Re: Birthplace - can't read
Post by: Treetotal on Friday 23 September 16 15:28 BST (UK)
Looks good Annie...Scroll down to see parishes for Newry:


http://www.genuki.eu/DOW/Place1329.htm

Carol
Title: Re: Birthplace - can't read
Post by: philipsearching on Friday 23 September 16 15:35 BST (UK)
I had a look on http://www.ulsterplacenames.org/PDF%20Files/Newry%20and%20Mourne%20(C.%20Dunbar).pdf and wondered if Carrivekeeny was a possibility (with the v written as ff).

All the best
Philip
Title: Re: Birthplace - can't read
Post by: PatrickBull on Friday 23 September 16 17:28 BST (UK)
Thank you for your responses. I was thinking it said Cariffkeevey or Cariffkeeny.

Carol, I can't see "Carry Keeney" as a parish on the link you gave.

Thanks Philip, Carrivekeeny seems a very likely location. Is it a Parish or a Road or a house name etc?

My other thought was that as a sailor maybe the baby was born on a ship called "Cariffkeeny", but this seems unlikely.

Title: Re: Birthplace - can't read
Post by: Elwyn Soutter on Friday 23 September 16 17:48 BST (UK)
It’s not the name of a ship.  There are special arrangements for registering births on ships but the vessels name would also be preceded by SS or suchlike, I feel sure.

In my opinion, it’s Carrivekeeny (spelled on the cert as Carriffkeeny) a townland in Co. Armagh (but within Newry’s registration area) in the sub-district of Ballybot. (That’s where it was registered). It’s a mile or so west of Newry on the Mountain Rd.

1911 census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Armagh/Ballybot/Carrivekeeny/

I also notice some O’Keeffe households nearby in Fathom Lower:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Armagh/Ballybot/Fathom__Lower/