Oh, yes, absolutely I have Clare ancestors but not of the truly old families. There was a small cluster of Carberrys in East Clare in the early to mid 1800s; they were all gone by the 1880s. A large group of Donnellans from Co. Galway came down, probably in the 1700s, and populated Clare to the tune of about 300 individual families in the 1800s. There are still a few Donnellans in Kilkishen, where mine lived until the 1850s. It was Catharine Donnellan who married Patrick Carberry in 1850 there and then they had two children in another parish before em- barking for Canada, where Patrick died in 1855. Sharon Carberry