I apologise for my comments this morning at the end of the report on the Beresford vs Waters eviction of 1892. A lady here had carried out the research on this case and with my permission was posting the news reports as she came across them preserved in a scrapbook. I read the "final report" for the first time early this morning and I was upset at the outcome for the Waters family, my first reaction was to recall an event from the 1920s. I would like to point out that Carlow county in particular was blessed down through the centuries with many beneficial, caring and generous Gentry / Landlord families They created and gave employment to many Carlow people for generations and looked after the needs of their employees, tenants and their families in the bad times. In many cases they acted as fair magistrates and peace-makers during times of trouble, some of them found themselves involved in battles not at all of their making. I hope that the dozens of documents that Michael Brennan has reproduced on the Carlow site are a testimony to their good intentions and their standing in the community. Many of them are recorded in Jimmy O' Toole's book "The Carlow Gentry" a great book still available in bookshops (I.S.B.N. O 952 25440 O 9). The intention of publishing the details of the Beresford saga was to enlighten those who were unaware of this aspect of our complicated history. Many Listers / readers often mention of how their ancestors were evicted from the land and the Beresford reports (mainly from the Nationalist and Leinster Times ) gave an insight into the background of this particular case. I have before quoted L.P. Hartley's "the past is a distant country : they do things differently there" today it can be very easy to pass judgment from a comfortable armchair and not allow for what my own actions might have been if I had been present in that distant past. mick.