Here are just a couple of thoughts, or leads, Sandy. I thought I'd sent this off this morning but must have mis-addressed it. Turloch Mór and Turloch Corr are two of the chief sources of winter supply on the eastern side of Loch Corrib in Co.Galway. These turlochs were famous water fowl haunts in winter, and fine pasturage in summer; but since the drainage operations portions of several of them have been tilled. There is also a Turloch Breige in Co.Galway (see http://www.claregalway.net/townlands.htm). There is also a place called Turloch Beag in Co. Galway with a school (Scoil Nais Mhuire, Turloch Beag, Rosmuc, Co. Galway (091) 574312). You write "...Tried Galway 30 July 1840....". That could be Galway City or Galway County, of course, but with such a precise date I wondered whether you have had a shot at locating court records or - possibly easier - newspaper records. I'm not up to speed on the old Galway newspaper archives but someone on this list will know which papers are to be found in which libraries. I looked for Toole in http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Galway/index.html but had no luck. All for the moment. 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.