Sandy at gsbm@austarnet.com.au writes: << The name on the papers which is a bit faded looks like Turloch(Tarlock? Turluck?) W. Galway >> Sandy, Padraig is right about there being turloughs "everywhere" in the west of Ireland. But if we limit the search to only townlands, with turlough in the name......and if we define W. Galway is being the part of the county represented by the Baronies of Ballynahinch, Ross, Moycullen and Galway, only - then we are reduced to two townlands. Turlough townland, at over 3000 acres, covers the northern and northeastern end of Kilkieran Bay - up the bay as far as you can go. Turloughbeg townland, 269 acres, is farther down the east side of the Bay, just north of Camus Bay and next to Rosmuck. Kilbrickan townland separates Turlough from Turloughbeg. All of these townlands are in Kilcummin civil parish. To find these places on a road map, you might start with the Maam Cross to Costelloe and Rossaveel road, R 336. As you head south from Maam Cross 5 or 6 miles, the R 340 connects with this north-south road, and heads west then southwest to Kilkieran. At the top of the bay, where this road turns to the southwest..... that is Turlough. And Turloughbeg is a couple of miles south. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts