Since my own Dunmanway McCarthy males left Cork to work in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil Wales steel mill as soon as they reached adulthood about 1882, I thought I would share this recent note from another LORDAN transplanted to Wales. I suspect more Welsh-Irish should be hunting in Cork for their roots. My Wales men then worked to get to America and their sisters worked as domestics in Massachusetts until all had paid each others' way over. One McCarthy daughter stayed home in Dunmanway to care for her aging widowed father, and my Great great grandfather gave her the 11 acre farm in Dromdrasdil. This is info from a cousin of a LORDAN cousin from Dunmanway: James Lordan and May Lordan (Quirke). They lived in Banogue Co Limerick, near Croom. Grandfather was actually born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Take into account when searching a lot of Welsh counties reverted to their Welsh names in the 1980's as they formerly known by their English versions e.g. Pembrokeshire is now Dyfed etc. The rest of my father's family were Daniel Mary Patrick (whose son Seamus (James Patrick) has helped me greatly). James (my grandfather) John Kit (Katherine) John Biddy (Brigid) The reason my grandfather was born in Wales was quite simply to do with lack of work in Ireland. The Lordans went to get work in the mines and would have put each other up to help out but they moved back to Ireland as soon as they could. My great grandfather (who was from Cork) was James Lordan and my grandmother was Mary Lordan (Callaghan). My great great grandparents were James and Mary as well. The rest of my family history is word of mouth from the relatives (Hence knowing of Hannah & Daniel Lordan) and I am on the search to find proof which is actually harder due to a lot of records being destroyed in 1920's in Ireland. Just sharing. Candi in California