Looking for Townland Meriagha (probably Tipperary)
The 1815 marriage record for ancestor John Hogan (first entry in screenshot below) indicates that he was from Meriagha, presumably a townland in Co. Tipperary where he was married. I am unable to locate it (or variations of the name) on the https://www.townlands.ie/tipperary website. I checked the neighboring Co. Offaly too. Is anyone able to find it?
Thank you.
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We often have to think outside the box with the phonetic spellings of our Irish townlands. Since the bride is listed as being from Borrisoleigh, I looked at all placenames in Thurles, the PLU where Borrisoleigh is located, using JohnGrenham.com.
In Thurles, I found Magherareagh. Worth a try?
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Wow. I would never have found that. Thank you. It looks like it's just down the road from Borrisoleigh. This is good.
(On my one trip to Ireland many years ago, I kept getting lost because I didn't know how to pronounce the place names [and the roads were not on a grid]. Dunleary was actually Dun Laoghaire!)
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You're very welcome. On most of the websites for researching Irish townlands, you can use wildcards, making it a bit easier to find uncertain spellings.
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Thanks also for letting me know about JohnGrenham.com. It's very informative.
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