Strictly speaking, Rahoon and all its potential clones are within the
County Borough/City of Galway and as such do not appear on official maps at
all. They exist in a state of suspended animation, waiting to be woken by a
kiss whenever Prince Charming (the Minister for Local Government (or
Lugaphuill:
The two townlands in separate Civil Parishes were combined into one by the
Boundary Surveyor.
A study of the valuation books this morning shows them as separate in 1856,
1883, 1914 and 1922 but combined in 1935.
A closer inspection of the annotations in the books show the effective
(Apologies for formatting in first message so resent)
We are asking the wrong question of Lugaphuill in a way.
There were two townlands named Lugaphuill in 2 separate civil parishes as
late as 1911.
1901 Index.
map Townland name Area acres roods perches County Barony Parish County
In the case of Westport they messed it up yet again in 1991
They changed the boundary of the Urban District Council area but not the EDs
in Westport.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2001/si/602/made/en/print
Now the townland of Moyastin was split into two when the Urban ED was
We are asking the wrong question of Lugaphuill.
There were two townlands named Lugaphuill in 2 separate civil parishes as
late as 1901.
map sheet number
Townland name
Area acres
Area roods
Area perches
County
Barony
Parish
County district / Superintendent Registrars
> 4: I think it's just awkwardly shaped. Not sure if there's a boundary at
> the narrow part or not on
> http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/?zoom=16=53.8103=-9.
> 2563=B00T,
> but I don't see the name for the second townland on the GSGS3906 map if it
> is.
>
> > (4) townland "Lugaphuill"
To summarize, prior to 1898, townlands could be neatly nested into civil
parishes, poor law
electoral divisions, and baronies, and these three hierarchies were
independent of each
other - but all three in turn nested neatly into counties. Poor law
divisions nested into poor
law unions which could
> My own opinion would be that townlands shouldn't be split in OSM and if
> they overlap parishes, then it's up to the software using the OSM data to
> figure out how to handle them.
>
> As far as I understand it, townlands don't necessarily add up to civil
> parishes, civil parishes don't
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your feedback, I have made most of the changes that I mentioned
in my email but I didn't split any townlands (yet). It's a good point that
I don't need to split a townland border just because a parish or barony
border runs through it. As long as I assume that townlands do not
Hi all,
I'm fairly new to OSM, I map under the username OscarBrownbread.
I have been mapping Castlebar and Co. Mayo. Recently I have been looking
more at townlands
I have found many spelling errors in townland names (approx 10) in my
locality. Cross referencing them with the loganim data
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