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TYRONE MAPS & LAND RECORDS
« on: Sunday 22 March 09 19:28 UTC (UK) »
Townlands, Parishes, etc.
Counties are made up of parishes and parishes are made up of a group of townlands. If you are doing any research in Ireland these divisions become extremely important.
For further information:
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/records/land/townland.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townland
http://www.ancestryireland.com/database.php?filename=townlands
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To find townlands and parishes in Ireland: www.seanruad.com
Be sure to change default setting from 'exact match' to search for part of a word.
Also: www.logainm.ie/?menuItem=about&uiLang=en NEW

Map of civil parishes and better civil parish map here NEW
Some maps linked to Griffith's Valuation

Maps showing townlands within each Co. Tyrone parish NEW

Administrative Division of Ireland: http://ireland.kiwicelts.com/irishMap/ireMap.html
This site can be hard to use at first and not complete for everywhere in Tyrone but well worth persisting to see if the area you are interested in is included.

Dual Maps: www.mapchannels.com/DualMaps.aspx
Display two maps side-by-side for single location (Google Maps + Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps). Also includes new Google Street View option to view ground level imagery of Belfast.

Multimap
Google Maps

Geograph project: www.geograph.org.uk
"The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland."

Weather maps
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Re: TYRONE MAPS - land measurements
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 05 April 09 15:02 UTC (UK) »
There are several different systems of land measurement in place in Ireland at various times.

Statute acre (or English acre) = 4840 square yards

Cunningham acre = 6250 square yards
A Scottish measurement. Cunningham acres need to be multiplied by 1.29 to convert them to English, statute acres.
www.clancunningham.org/photos/Settlement6.html

Irish acre = 7840 square yards
www.sizes.com/units/irish_acre.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre_(Irish)
conversion table: www.convertcenter.com/convertunit.aspx/area/irish_acre/all/56/0/1

This may explain the differences in the acreage of a farm which seems to have changed in size.
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Re: TYRONE MAPS & LAND RECORDS
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 26 May 09 14:41 UTC (UK) »
The Northern Ireland Valuation and Lands Agency gives the names of the District Councils throughout the Province, the names of the Wards in each Council and the names of roads and streets within those Wards. 
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