The island of Gorumna is about an hour's drive west from Galway city
Provinces of Ireland
Ulster (north), Leinster (east), Munster (south), Connacht (west)
Provinces serve no particular administrative function.
Ireland’s official name is: The Republic of Ireland
Common geographical terms in descending order:
County: there are 26 counties in the Republic (and another 6 counties in Northern Ireland, UK)
Barony: an older designation and appears in various documents. There are 273 Baronies in the Republic of Ireland
Civil Parishes: based on medieval Christian parishes, which there 2,400 Civil parishes.
*Note: there are approximately 26 Roman Catholic Dioceses which comprise of 1,087 Catholic Parishes.
Civil parishes are Administrative divisions.
Catholic parishes are Religious divisions with distinct boundaries that do not necessarily align with civil parishes.
District Electoral Divisions (DEDs): administrative area in the Republic of Ireland, generally comprising multiple townlands.
Townlands: The smallest official land division in Ireland, townlands are surveyed parcels of land that can range in size from a few acres to several thousand acres.
There are roughly 64,000 townlands in Ireland.
The O’Malley and Conneely ancestors came from:
The Republic of Ireland (Province of Connacht)
County: Galway (Gaillimh)
Barony: Moycullen
Civil Parish: Killannin (Catholic diocese of Tuam)
District Electoral Division: Gorumna
Townland: Teernea
Villages of Tir na Fhia (Tiernee) and Deirin Darach
