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Location(s) of Doogra and Rockfield in Westmeath

I am hoping someone can help me.

I am trying to find the locations listed on birth/marriage records for my ancestors who were from the Streamstown, Castletown Geoghegan and Moate area of Westmeath, but they are not listed as townlands or subtownlands on Townlads.ie website for Westmeath.

One of the locationis listed on an ancestor's birth record is Doogra (which has had a variety of spellings). I know they had other family around the Castletown Geoghegan area.

The other location is Rockfield which is associated with my 3x great grandfather Andrew Nolan is listed in Griffiths Valuation has leasing land in in Sraduff. His daughter Catherine (Kate) Nolan lists her address as Rockfield on her marriage record to Patrick Lyons in 1872.

Any assistance appreciated.

Kind regards

Maryannne Fox

Western Australia.

Maryanne Fox

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Rockfield was the name of a house/estate within Sraduff townland - see map extract below from 1st edition OS maps c1840

 

(src : OSI/Geohive) 

shanew147IrelandXO Volunteer

I'm not sure how you searched at townlands.ie, but Streamstown, Castletown Geoghegan, and Moate can all be seen on the map at this link for Sraduff:

https://www.townlands.ie/westmeath/moycashel/castletownkindalen/streamstown/sraduff/

If you look at the little interactive map there, you can zoom in and out, and if you zoom out a few steps, you can see all three of those locations simultaneously, the first two on either side of Sraduff, and Moate further away to the WSW..

You can also see all of those locations at Google Earth, which lets you see the topography, roads, pasture boundaries, buildings, etc. down to a fairly close level. Start by searching for Sraduff, Westmeath, and then cursor left and right in the directions shown at the townlands.ie map. Zooming in and out will make additional location names appear.

kevin45sf@yahoo.com

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