[PW] Is there a Watertown in Ireland?

[Eoin C. Bairéad]

It's in west Cork, I think in Glengarriff.

There's no Watertown around there, as far as I can see. But Waterville is
sort-of just up the road.

Eoin

2008/4/30 Bill Davis <wmadavis at gmail.com>:

>
> I haven't got the name of her ancestor at the moment.  I'll ask her.  I
> had
> some online data on a William GIBBON, whose obituary indicated he was from
> Watertown, which is why she contacted me.
>
> The photographs that refer to "Watertown" are here:
>
>         http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidgraymclean/91218031/
>
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidgraymclean/91218041/in/photostream/
>
> I logged on to An Post, and my search for "Watertown" resulted in 23
> matches for "Waterstown."  No reply yet to my email to An Post.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Davis
>
>
> At 04:52 AM 4/30/2008, you wrote:
>
> >The best people to tell you this would be An Post, the Irish Post Office.
> >
> >She might get some guidance from her ancestor's surname; in the 1840s
> >people were more likely than today to be living in the area where
> >their people had lived for the last 5,000 years or so - for instance,
> >McCarthys would usually be in West Cork, O'Donnells in Donegal,
> >Butlers in Kilkenny (well, the Butlers were latecomers, blow-ins
> >who'd only been here since the 12th century, but you get the idea).
> >
> >An Post's web presence starts in www.anpost.ie - look for help from
> >the Press Office first (Pressoffice at anpost.ie) and they should send
> >you to the part of the semi-state company that will help.
>
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Eoin C. Bairéad
Dublin, Ireland
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