"Peggy" <pegleg2@bigpond.net.au> asked: >Could somebody please tell me to which Catholic Church I should write in >the hope of getting a record of a marriage performed in 1862/3 in >Gortnagross, Co. Cork? Is this townland in the Ballyvourney Parish or >does it have a Parish Church of its own? There is a townland of Gortnagross in the parish of Ballyvourney. It is 151 acres and is in the Macroom Poor Law Union in the barony of West Muskerry in the West Riding of Co. Cork. There are also two townlands named Gortnagross in the Mallow Poor Law Union. Both are in the barony of Duhallow in the East Riding of Co. Cork. One is 55 acres in the parish of Mallow and the other is 962 acres in the parish of Ballyclogh. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlmahs/mherit.htm for information on the Mallow Heritage Centre which has Roman Catholic parish records for Ballyvourney on computer, baptisms 1810-1895 and marriages 1871-1895, Ballyclough baptisms 1807-1896, marriages 1805-1896 plus some Church of Ireland marriages, and Mallow baptisms 1809-1899, marriages 1757-1899, plus Church of Ireland baptisms, marriages and burials. -dja