Where is Knockavulling?

[Sean O Callaghan]

Can anyone help me locate this parish/townland? Google throws up very limited information. It is somewhere around the Kanturk/Newmarket area of Co. Cork, but I cannot narrow it down any further thus far. If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.

[aghadowey]

www.thecore.com/seanruad shows a townland called Knockavullig in Cannaway civil parish (Macroom Poor Law Union).

Even found some land for sale there-
http://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/knockavullig-carrigadrohid-macroom-co-cork/2178105

... and finally found it on a map 
http://www.likeplace.ie/places/nearplaces.php?stateplace=Knockavullig,Cork

[Sean O Callaghan]

Thanks, Aghadowey. You are always very helpful. It could indeed be the same place. It is only about 25 miles from Newmarket. There is a mention of a Knockavulling (with the n) on a grave in this cemetery in Kilbrin, near Kanturk

http://www.kilbrin.net/KilbrinGraveyardSectionB.html

and my maternal Great-Grandmother's marriage certificate lists her as having come from Knockavulling. She was married in Newmarket or Kanturk and lived in Newmarket all her life, so that made me think Knockavulling might be near there.

[Sean O Callaghan]

Success!  I got a lead from someone who lives in the general area of Kanturk/Newmarket to look at townlands near Tullylease, not too far from the aforementioned towns.  The townland of Knockavulling there is variously known as Knockavullen, Knockawillin and Knockawillen, depending on the source. Anyway, I found Knockawillin in both the 1901 and 1911 census returns and found the people for whom I was looking and all the details matched, so I know I found the right area. I guess one of the difficulties in this kind of research will always be the variations in spelling, depending on who wrote down the information and how good an ear they had for Irish place names. I managed to find so much information just by that one lead, and have now identified my great-great-grandparents and great-great-great grandparents and numerous members of their families.

Ceallachain