Nan at Bragene@aol.com writes: << In County Donegal in the 1820s can someone tell me the distance between Rossvolan and Trumman in Drumhome Parish? >> Nan, There are three Trumman-related townlands; East, West and West Barr - which stretch nearly 4 miles east to west, just south of Laghy town. There is also a village of Trumman, just a mile due south of Laghy, which seems to be the major population center of the Trumman townlands. Rossyvolan townland is about a mile WNW of Laghy, and right on the water. There is (and was) only a Church of Ireland in the town of Laghy (I'm always open to correction on Church information, as I depend solely on the Web for that information), so that would have been a short walk from Rossyvolan. Although there is a school in Laghy currently, there does not appear to have been one there in the 1830/40's. But there was a school less than a half mile south of Laghy, on the road to Trumman village at that time. If someone wanted to walk through the fields to travel between Rossyvolan and Trumman village, it would be a little over a mile. Add a half mile or so if you followed the roads. But if you lived in a more remote part of the Trumman townlands, to the east, it could be a four mile walk from Rossyvolan. That's enough (probably too much...."Boring !!!!!") Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts