Janet Bruton <[email protected]> said: >Mallow is indeed in Cork just north of Cork City very slightly west >My families "Ring" and "Buckley" come from this area but I havn't found >any records of them yet. In the Cork Examiner of 25 June 1847 there is a leter from a David Ring on the potato crop. see http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlmahs/mexam.html See http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlmahs/trans.htm for a Denis Ring who was transported for 7 years for vagrancy. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlmahs/midxfrm.htm for several other mentions of Ring in the Mallow area. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Mallow Archaeological & Historical Society Acton, Massachusetts | Mr. John Caplice, Dromore, Mallow, Co. Cork [email protected] | http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlmahs/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -