Irish surname v county

[Colin]

Those sites are actually pretty "generic" with the locations, but they're a GREAT place to start. I was researching the Delaney (O Dubhshlaine) name, and started in Kilkenny (as the internet proposed).

That's funny Jimmy, 'cause everytime I get interested in looking up family history, I start with a Kilkenny

[jfellrath]

That's funny Jimmy, 'cause everytime I get interested in looking up family history, I start with a Kilkenny

Usually discovering my family history drives me TO a Kilkenny, or Guinness, or Bunnahabhain, or whatever. ;)

[Jimmy Carbomb]

That's funny Jimmy, 'cause everytime I get interested in looking up family history, I start with a Kilkenny

If someone didn't know the topography of Ireland, they would think that Kilkenny was some dried-up lake bed that was hard for migrants to escape... so everyone just settled there!

My wife's maiden name is Delaney, so I was doing "the search" for the family. Good night nurse, there are a LOAD of Delaneys in Ireland!!! It was fun tracking the "right ones".

Fortunately for me, my family history is very well spelled out in some old books and journals, so I have known all along that Armagh is "home base". That goes back a LONG time. In fact, family still resides there in droves. When I plugged-in the family name with "Ireland", it went straight to the correct church. I guess we made just enough trouble over there to be tracked.;)