Thanks for that, makes a lot more sense now. I was wondering why they didn't give some name in brackets to distinguish between the 2 townlands, so I guess the map was only concerned with duplicates in the same civil parish? Dafo
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:58:24 +0000 > From: donal.diam...@gmail.com > To: talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] FW: Sheet request > > On 20 January 2015 at 09:23, Dave Foley <daf...@outlook.ie> wrote: > > > Thanks for that Donal, I am looking for the 29-17 sheets as well if > > possible. > > Regarding the townland in a separate civil parish, would it not > > technically be the same townland just with internal borders? Sorry for > > being pedantic and possibly this was already discussed but I just want to > > be sure. > > > > Not pedantic at all - correctness requires us to tease out all the finer > details. In OSM being pedantic is a virtue ;-) > > Townlands in separate civil parishes are still legally townlands in their > own right: > > see > > http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse/Census%20%28by%20date%29/1901/Ireland&mno=453&pageseq=46 > > You can also check the 1911 supplement to see if there were any subsequent > changes. > > http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/TOC?path=Browse/Census%20%28by%20date%29/1911/Ireland&active=yes&mno=460&tocstate=expandnew&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles > > In the case of baronies, as they were not changed as townland boundaries > changed there are cases where the boundary will just go through the > middle of a townland though. > > D > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
