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Can anyone please tell me what town John Ryan came from in Tipperary ?.  He is going to Brooklyn, NY in 1914. 

 

It looks like Solloghead ahulor in Tipperary.. Please translate.

 

Thank you.

 

 

hkftbl

Tuesday 2nd Nov 2021, 05:28PM

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  • hkftbl:

    The second location is Aherlow. I'm having trouble finding Solloghead. It may be Solloghodbeg which is a townland and civil parish near Aherlow. Aherlow is in southwest Co. Tipperary near the Co. Limerick border.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_of_Aherlow

    Usually an address would have the smaller location where the person lived followed by the larger town and then the county.

    Roger McDonnell 

     

    Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

    Tuesday 2nd Nov 2021, 05:48PM
  • Thank you !!

    :-)

    hkftbl

    Wednesday 3rd Nov 2021, 08:54AM
  • I'm sure Roger's correct, because the "beg" (in Irish, beag) part of Solloghodbeg just means "little", so it's effectivly "Little Solloghod".

    kevin45sfl

    Thursday 4th Nov 2021, 03:01AM
  • Hi Kevin!

    Good to hear from you.

    Roger

    Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

    Thursday 4th Nov 2021, 07:14PM
  • Thanks, Roger.  I've been busy with some other matters, but will try to help out some more.

    I was intrigued by this place name, especially since it is not in the database at logainm.ie.  I just had to figure out the meaning, and I finally found it at another site.  The name is apparently made up of two words which must be either dialectical or archaic.  The Irish form of Solloghod is Sulchoid, meaning “sallow willow woods”.  I have no idea what a sallow willow looks like, and I've never seen coid as an alternate form of coill, but that's what I found.  So Solloghodbeg (or Sulchoid bheag) would be "little sallow willow woods"

    For the original poster, you can see more info about the townland at this site:

    https://www.townlands.ie/tipperary/clanwilliam/solloghod-beg/solloghodb…

    If you look at the interactive map at that link, you can see that there is a Solloghodbeg Hill within the townland, with some woods indicated as being on it, so perhaps that's where the namesake woods are/were located (although there appears to be a larger wooded area further north in the townand).

     

     

     

    kevin45sfl

    Thursday 4th Nov 2021, 11:45PM
  • Roger is correct

     

    Solohead aka Soloheadbeg aka Solohodbeg is a townland, civil parish and electoral district in Co Tipperary near Limerick Junction. 

    See logainm.ie/en/2331?s=Soloheadbeg

     

    Rua, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘︎

    Friday 5th Nov 2021, 05:01AM
  • Thank you all very much.!!

    :-)

    hkftbl

    Friday 5th Nov 2021, 07:46AM

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