With thanks to Diane I have been trawling the various parishes along the Galway/ Clare border. I went to the 1855 Griffiths valuation records of Galway with the idea of seeing what the main surnames were in each parish. Since my John CARROLL left Ireland late in 1855 I figured a match of the CARROLL /GRADY name in the same parish might indicate possible places for further research. The one thing I did notice was that there were no GREADYS which makes me think "Gready" may have been a corruption of GRADY caused by the Irish accent being misunderstood  in Australia. So I proceeded to look for Carroll / Gradys in the same place. So far I have found a couple of hits. One is Gortnadeeve West in Ballynakill and the other Cloon in Kilbecanty. My next question is about Parishes, Townlands and Towns. How do these relate to each other and which is the main place to search. How do the church lands and secular lands fit together on a map? Can I imagine Cloon is a town? Is it still there? I know I appear to be rambling but I am trying to work through the process. I am finding much more on the net than I thought there was. A visit to Ireland is in the wind and I would love to find where these two came from.  I have been to Ireland before and not known anything about them then so I left it as a lost cause!!! Another question. If the boat is listed as leaving Plymouth where would the CARROLLS have got on a boat to get there? What would have been their exit port from Ireland? Where there seperate boats which would have been contracted to the South Australian Company or South Australian Colonisation Committee to bring Free settlers like the CARROLLS out here. Perhaps somewhere in Ireland there is a list of such vessels. (Sth Aust was not settled by convicts - pity for historians here as those records are very detailed!!) Much thanks Anne Adelaide South Australia