Risdaff/Rosdaff/Russdaff in Shrule Civil Parish

[maryalex]

Eight baptism records from 1832 in Shrule RC parish show the address as Risdaff, Rossdaff or Russdaff.  None of those is the name of a townland.
Are there any suggestions as to which townland the parents may have lived in?

[patrick_a]

There was a townland in 1825 called Roslaff(spelled by the British).
http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/pagestab/Mayo/Shrule/

I tried to track one family from Roslaff in 1825 to the 1860s in Griffiths and they all moved to the townland of Moyne.

You can do a search in the Parish in the 1860s for place names.
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=placeSearch
Perhaps it is one of the islands listed as,  " Islands in lough corrib. "

[heywood]

If you look at the Townland transcript, it looks more like ‘Rostaff’ - compare the letter to the ‘l’ in Ruanlaughter above it.

It is still mentioned in recent records - scroll down to remembrances of the dead
http://www.shruleglencorribparish.ie/publications/newsletter/10th_March_2019%5B2019-3-10%5D.pdf

Looking at a couple of those deaths here https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ gives Rosstaff or similar but then census entries seem to be Moyne.

There is some history here with mention of Rosstaff
http://www.shrule.com/?page_id=545

[heywood]

More history here
http://www.shruleglencorribparish.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Shrule-Parish-History.pdf

Pg 13/68 1969-71
The Friary of Ross mention of Rostaff and there may be more.

[maryalex]

Thank you, patrick_a and Heywood, for your replies. 
I have found the families on censuses in Moyne which seems to have been the official name of the townland since at least the time of Griffiths Valuation.  I have a 1939 death certificate showing the place of death as Rostaff.  No doubt the locals still call the place that.

[heywood]

Yes, that is what I was thinking maryalex. 

[heywood]

I just thought i would check In case I could see it on Griffiths maps, and would you believe it, it is on modern maps as Rosstaf, close to Cloughmoyne. 

[Kiltaglassan]

...........it is on modern maps as Rosstaf, close to Cloughmoyne. 

Good find, heywood 

Here's the link, OP.
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01qcd/

KG

[heywood]

Thanks K G