Friends, I'm here to let you know that I have become something of an expert at genealogy hunting in Waterville Kerry, especially when it comes to DENNEHY or DANAHY. So if you have questions just let me know.. We have trooped the cemeteries there, inspected the parish registers, rented a house, eaten in restaurants for two weeks, changed cash, used debit and credit cards, rented a car, driven on the roads with Garman in the cockpit, etc. Soon I will post the mostly post 1940 gravestone transcriptions of DANAHY DENNEHY from St. Finian's cemetery. The ancient parish church and graveyard called DROMoD are hard to find and, as the local parish priest put it," derelict." Tis a striking word meaning gone to rack and ruin. Several miles from town, Dromod cemetery has a new section with primarily contemporary 20th cent graves that are marked. Church Island in Lough Currane has unmarked stones only except for the English lad. Debit cards in the new economy seem to be the best way to pay. Some places in the area take cash only. And it is possible to bargain prices with the locals if you want to rent one of the largely empty Holiday Homes. i recommend John and Mary Clifford's Brookhaven. For a beautiful spot to dine or stay on the water, check out Smugglers Inn Michael DANAHY http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/n/Michael-C-Danahy/index.html RESEARCHING IN MA (Hopkinton), IRE, ENG ALDRICH http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~aldrichnaa/ (one m SMITH, earlier ones m CASAVANT, COMEE, http://www.familyorigins.com/users/e/v/a/Jeanne-C-Evans LOVELL, PRAY, PRENTICE, RAWSON, SEALD, THAYER); http://members.xoom.com/jaldrich/Lines/Michael.htm Aldrich Family biographies, go to http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssociation/AldrichBios or go to http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aldrich/ CASAVANT (who m MORAN); CURRAN (who m DANAHY) DANAHY (b. in Hopkinton and who m LENAN, siblings m. TOLAN, JOHNSON, O'CONNOR) LENAN (who m O"BRIEN); SMITH (who m CASEY); PRENTICE (who m ALDRICH) http://www.prenticenet.com/roots/prentice/robert/#R4 RAWSON (one m ALLEN, later one TORREY) http://www.rawsonfamilyassoc.org/ THAYER (Thomas m WHEELER, son Ferdinando m HAYWARD); http://members.aol.com/Sadie476/Thayer.html