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Title: Location for Lower Town, Clonca
Post by: Cfdm on Sunday 20 April 14 01:45 BST (UK)

Does anyone know exactly where Lower Town in Clonca is located?

It's in the Tithe Applotment Book,  but not in Griffiths, so it might be a name that changed into something else.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Location for Lower Town, Clonca
Post by: Sinann on Sunday 20 April 14 09:25 BST (UK)

Using the OSI Mapviewer, searching by county, than Locality. Lowertown is listed click search and on the modern map the place it brings you to is not named but on the historic 25" it's a spot in Balleegan Upper
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,648617,950555,6,9

The parish of Clonca http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,648050,953686,3,7
The parish link isn't as good it's better if you do the search and zoom in a bit, than you get an outline of the parish.

Title: Re: Location for Lower Town, Clonca
Post by: joemc on Tuesday 22 April 14 15:01 BST (UK)

Hi, just to add to previous reply, there are the townlands of Balleeghan Lower and Balleeghan Upper, when referring to Lower town they are distinguishing between these 2 townlands. For example from the Tithe Applotment book 1827:

QUIGLEY, Barny, Bellehan Lowertown

Regards

Title: Re: Location for Lower Town, Clonca
Post by: Cfdm on Thursday 24 April 14 05:30 BST (UK)

Thank you, that helps a lot.

For some reason , I have the worse time wrapping my head around these Irish place names.

Title: Re: Location for Lower Town, Clonca
Post by: rathmore on Thursday 24 April 14 11:09 BST (UK)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal

then come down the page and click on Clonca,  it is in Inishowen East


http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hiflyte/index.htm