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Offline Sinann

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Placename help
« on: Monday 14 May 12 16:13 BST (UK) »
Can anyone figure out the place P Mc Donnell comes from, I've searched Townland sites, the census, Griffith's and I'm going bleary eyed.


It's from the Westmeath Examiner and is from a report on my g grandmother's funeral. P McDonnell is her brother and I'm hoping he's still living in the home place, if only I could figure out where that is.
It could be a typo or perhaps not even in Westmeath.
Any ideas??

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Re: Placename help
« Reply #1 on: Monday 14 May 12 16:17 BST (UK) »
There are 2 townlands with Collinstown in the name in Westmeath-

1) Collinstown, St. Feighins civil parish, Castletown Poor Law Union

2) Collinstown & Kitotan, Castlelost civil parish, Mullingar Poor Law Union

see http://www.thecore.com/seanruad to find places in Ireland

Can't see 'Strilstown' listed anywhere in Ireland- perhaps a misprint or scanning has mis-transcribed the place?
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« Reply #2 on: Monday 14 May 12 16:43 BST (UK) »
It's just the Strilstown I'm looking, but at least you came up with the same spelling as I did, I've been looking at it for so long the only thing I'm sure of is it starts with S and ends in town.  ;D

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« Reply #3 on: Monday 14 May 12 16:44 BST (UK) »
Closest I can think of is Steelstown  :-\
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Re: Placename help
« Reply #4 on: Monday 14 May 12 18:06 BST (UK) »
could the second letter be a smudged 'c' - apparently there's place called Scrilstown in Scotland..



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« Reply #5 on: Monday 14 May 12 18:19 BST (UK) »
Mmmm interesting thought, they are Mc Donnells after all. You would think the paper would put Scotland in the article and I know my g grandmother (well according to the 1901 census) was born in Westmeath, but they may still have had connections to Scotland at the time.

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« Reply #6 on: Monday 14 May 12 18:39 BST (UK) »
I cant find anything further on that Scrilstown - most of the searches seem to end up with webpages about the same McKay family and a location of 'Knockando Parish, Scrilstown' - so not quite sure I trust it as accurate....



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« Reply #7 on: Monday 14 May 12 18:46 BST (UK) »
Thanks for trying, if it is Scotland and she was born in Westmeath it's not likely it would help me.
I was hoping I might be able to follow through on Griffiths to find her father's name, if her brother had inherited.

I thought the Kildare side was sparse on information, Westmeath is a desert.

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« Reply #8 on: Monday 14 May 12 18:50 BST (UK) »
I think it looks like Strokestown which is County Roscommon !

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