Hi Cathy- Check Castle Gardens website for arrivals before 1907. All Irish struggled to keep their O's-which were required to be removed to get jobs and soup from the soup kitchen. Only the most stubborn held on to them. But records could be your people either with or without the O', depending upon who was writing the records (like the English). Searching Sullivans can be maddening. Your best bet is to locate his birth in the 1879 birth records for the location-registration district in Limerick. These indexes for births, marriages & deaths are available to you at any LDS Family History Center. I believe the films go to 1880. If you need help buying the records once you find possible births (multiple), contact me and I can guide you through the GRO website where you can buy the copies directly from Ireland. There is a lot of satisfaction in that, and many listings include relatives, townlands, etc. He very likely left from Cobh. Regards, Candi from California From: Popsballyagran@aol.com [mailto:Popsballyagran@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 5:46 PM To: Zizek, Candi (DHS-DCDC-IDB) Subject: Re: SULLIVAN line Ireland, Wales, PA 1825 HI, My grandfather, Patrick O'Sullivan - born in Ballyagran, Limerick near the Cork border in 1879. On many of his papers the name Sullivan show, but we have always kept the "O" and he did when he came to New York we beleive in his late teens or early 20's. Because of the "popular" name and little paper work, we are haveing some trouble in getting information. Can anyone tell us where he may have left from if he was living in Ballyagran?? Would Cobh been a likely port?? Whre there any others at the time (that ships would land in New York) We have had little success in locating any info at Ellis Island since we really have no particulars at this time. ANY help would be grately appreciated. Regards, Cathy O'Sullivan