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Re: FERMANAGH RESOURCES & LINKS
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 06 September 09 08:56 BST (UK) »
Misc.

Fermanagh Council website- details of area and links to local library service
Irish World is the Irish Family History Foundation centre for Tyrone and Fermanagh 
Irish Genealogical Project- Fermanagh- lots of links
Co. Fermanagh GENWEB: www.rootsweb.com/~nirfer
Loads of Fermanagh information on this site  NEW

Irish Genealogy website- free to search

Quote from: Gortinanima
A very useful search engine for many databases for Co Fermanagh can be found at the following URL:
http://www.fermanagh-gold.com/search
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Re: FERMANAGH RESOURCES & LINKS
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 06 September 09 09:33 BST (UK) »
Maps

Administrative Division of Ireland This site can be hard to use at first and not complete for everywhere in Fermanagh but well worth persisting to see if the area you are interested in is included.

Maps- Civil Parishes, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Some maps linked to Griffith's Valuation

Dual Maps- display two maps side-by-side for single location (Google Maps + Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps).
Multimap
Google Maps

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
This may explain the differences in the acreage of a farm which seems to have changed in size.
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