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| 1100.1 | Two mile ditch - maybe ? | CTHQ3::COADY | | Mon Jul 13 1992 17:29 | 9 |
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Dunno about Three mile ditch, but there is a place outside of Galway
City, in Castlegar area called " Two mile ditch" ....... but I'm sure
there's a Three mile ditch somewhere also but I can't help. Maybe
checking on the shorter one may help ..... what was the name, that
could help with association.
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| 1100.2 | maybe it was 2 | AKOCOA::MHUGHES | | Tue Jul 14 1992 08:39 | 6 |
| The name would be "Gibbons".
Where exactly is the Castlegar area ?
I suppose it could be "Two Mile" rather than Three Mile, after all,
this is the result of 90 odd years of verbal history.
Would you happen to know the significance of the name or how
it came to be known as "Two Mile Ditch"?
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| 1100.3 | I'm very close to it now....... | MACNAS::JDOOLEY | Do not take anything for granted | Tue Jul 14 1992 10:45 | 8 |
| Castlegar is a parish approx 2-3 miles north and east of Galway city.
The recent borough Boundary revisions put this parish almost inside the
city limits but it is still predominantly suburban in character.
It is famous for hurling at Parish level and is the home of the
Connolly brothers, Galway county hurlers in the mid 1980's.
Digitals Galway plant is not 100 yards from the Castlegar parish
boundary so someone here must know more about Two-mile-ditch.
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| 1100.4 | Any others? | MACNAS::TJOYCE | | Tue Aug 11 1992 06:22 | 10 |
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To take a different cut at this ...
The placename "Twomileditch" reminds me of two other places in Ireland
..."Sixmilebridge" outside Limerick and "Ninemilehouse" between Clonmel
and Kilkenny.
Any other odd placenames of this type?
Toby
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| 1100.5 | forget it... | AKOCOA::MHUGHES | | Sat Nov 21 1992 13:10 | 10 |
| You guys were no help at all, so at the end of Sept. my wife and
I hopped on an Aer Lingus flight and went looking for our roots.
We never did find Three-Mile-Ditch but did find out where her
Gibbons/Connolly's came from. We got some of the records from the
Country Records Office which disclosed Moneymore townlands in
Oranmore Parish. We went over to the Parish and Fr. ?? let us go
thru the baptism records going back to the 1850's. Got all the
Gibbons plus four children nobody over here knew about.
...Mike
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