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Title: Can anyone read this place name in Ireland please
Post by: Treelover on Monday 28 June 10 23:46 BST (UK)
Hi

Can anyone tell me what this place name is.  Looks like Bacon Tabor but nothing comes up when I google it, although Tabor seems something to do with Co Cork??

Thank you
Joan
Title: Re: Can anyone read this place name in Ireland please
Post by: lisamc10 on Monday 28 June 10 23:57 BST (UK)
it looks like the beacon ?
Title: Re: Can anyone read this place name in Ireland please
Post by: aghadowey on Tuesday 29 June 10 00:04 BST (UK)
Think it's part of the occupation (bacon _? or B_ laborer) and that the place is merely 'Ireland.'
Title: Re: Can anyone read this place name in Ireland please
Post by: Treelover on Tuesday 29 June 10 00:07 BST (UK)
Hi

I think I may have solved it.  There is a Bekan in Co Mayo ???  I suppose a strong accent could have sounded like Bacon ???


Joan
Title: Re: Can anyone read this place name in Ireland please
Post by: aghadowey on Tuesday 29 June 10 00:11 BST (UK)
Does anyone else on the page born in Ireland have more details? (I see another 'Ireland' on the fragment) Still think it's part of the occupation (occupation box says 'Laborer' but perhaps enumerator put in more detail and then wrote 'Ireland.' If It was a place name the county would probably have been written as well.
Title: Re: Can anyone read this place name in Ireland please
Post by: Treelover on Tuesday 29 June 10 00:19 BST (UK)
Hi

Not as clear, but you can see, on some they have written  Ireland than place on others place then Ireland.
Title: Re: Can anyone read this place name in Ireland please
Post by: shanew147 on Tuesday 29 June 10 08:48 BST (UK)
It does look like Baron Tober ... but how about a mis-hearing of Ballintubber, which is about 14km south of Castlebar in Co. Mayo ?



Shane
Title: Re: Can anyone read this place name in Ireland please
Post by: Old Mother Reilly on Tuesday 29 June 10 09:29 BST (UK)
It certainly looks like "Baron" - short for "Baronry", perhaps? 

Under Roscommon in the Wikipedia list of Irish baronies there are North and South "Ballintober": could this possibly be what was meant?

Rachel
Title: Re: Can anyone read this place name in Ireland please
Post by: Treelover on Tuesday 29 June 10 12:05 BST (UK)
Hello and thank you everyone for your input.

Ballintober sounds good to me too Rachel,  there was mention of Roscommon in the family way back - so it fit's quite nicely  ;D

Thank you once again
Joan