My 3rd-great-grandmother, Bridget Costello, was born in the vicinity of Tuam in 1805; married Thomas Macken/Mackin/McKin (from near Kilmaine, southern Co. Mayo) in the late 1820s; had 8 children and they all immigrated to the United States by 1853 or so. (Thomas may have come over a few years earlier.) They settled in Marion Co., Kentucky, where Bridget and Thomas became tollgate keepers. Thomas died in 1854 and she later moved to Louisville with her daughter, Delia Joyce. Bridget died in Louisville in Feb. 1890. I don't know anything about Bridget, other than she is supposedly related to Archbishop McHale, but apparently not on the Costello side because noone can be found in his family tree with that name. I will be in Tuam this spring and would love to go to the Catholic church she might have worshiped at or find where they might have lived. I'm guessing it was somewhere between Tuam and Kilmaine, which might explain how she met her husband, but that's just a guess. Any Costello researchers out there? Would appreciate any help, even if it's just a guess! Rita Mackin Fox rfox58@alltel.net