Linda, FWIW, I've emailed my cousins in Tubber to see whether they recognise this name. Kilbeacanty is only a few miles from Tubber and they have lived there all their lives so if the name is a living-memory one they may know it. Watch this space. Pádraig (the Paddy that was) System firewalled with ZoneAlarm Pro and regularly caulked with Microsoft Critical Updates. System and outgoing e-mails scanned with automatically-updated Norton Antivirus 2002. And a hearty thank-you to those who take similar precautions and thereby prevent their address books from being hijacked and used to send me spam, viruses, worms, scumware and other undesirable stuff.