(Administrator's note: This message was originally posted on 2-12-02.)

Hi. My name is Graham. I am fairly interested in the research of the genealogy of my family name, although I never seem to have the time to do anything about it. I think this is a great site, though.

I live in Dublin, but my great-grandfather was from Meath. As the younger son, he left to make his fortune in the big city. The family he left behind owned quite a large part of the hill of Tara, but was forced to sell to the government as a historical site. Not much information I know, but it's all I have at the moment.

Yours,
Graham Tormey

P.S. Found this Tormey info at the Irish Times website...

Fairly numerous: W Meath-Offaly, etc. Ir. O'Tormaigh, from Norse first name Thormodr. Early records place it in Longford-Cavan.

The table below shows the number of Tormey households in each county in the Primary Valuation property survey of 1848-64.

Households by parish (paying):
Cavan 13
Down 1
Dublin - 1
Dublin City - 1
Fermanagh - 1
Galway - 4
Leitrim - 1
Longford - 1
Mayo - 1
Meath - 16
Offaly - 1
Westmeath - 9
Wicklow - 1