Where is Cloonarkin

I have seached google earth and google maps and i can not find that town on the map anywhere in roscommon, maybe the spelling of the town could be different now. i am sorry i could not find it for you.

Robert,

If you go to a free website called askaboutireland there is a search function there on a bar called name book search.

This allows you to put in just a few letters of a place name and it throws up all the possibilities there are around the country.

I tried this with cloonarkin.  I put in cloona  and didn't give a county .  The nearest I have found is cloonark in Co. Mayo.

Try also the irishfamilyhistoryfoundation to track down any gilrains.  It's an unusual name so you might get a clkuster of them in one county.

Kind regards,

Anne K Dennehy

There were Kilrane's or Kilraine's in Cloonarkin near Cloonfad,  also known as Cloonerkaun in Kiltullagh Parish.

1901 census http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Kiltullagh/C…

Thank you for the information about Cloonarkin. It should help considerably in my further rearch.

I have come to realize that alternate spelling for names and places in Ireland does present interesting challenges. My grandmother, Bridget Gilrain, used that name here in the USA and her brother used Kilraine.

Robert I think it is near the village of Cloonfad which is on the Mayo-Roscommon border. Cloonfad is in the Parish of Kiltullagh. I will suss out if I get find anything further for you

MrsDoyle

Robert

Could this be it? It seems to be on the road south-east of Cloonfad village off the main road on the way to Galway with the spelling 'Cloonerkaun'

Griffith's Valuation link:

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&familyname=&firstname=&offset=20&countyname=&parishname=&parishname&unionname=&baronyname=&totalrows=23&PlaceID=1132788&wildcard=

Ordnance Survey Ireland link:

http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,553336,769586,4,10

Good Luck

MrsDoyle

There is a village called Cloonkarin, ( Mantua ) Ballyroddy, Appx 3 miles from Elphin. Roscommon