Cathy Q/Linda J at ITTCAQ@aol.com write: << directions from the post office on R353, travel about two miles towards Kilbeacanty to the first intersection with a road going in either direction and take the left turn (Shankhill Road) and there you will find Keanspound. He said they still deliever mail there to two houses. >> CathyLinda, That's great news. If, by OS map, you mean the Discovery map....then you know about the houses along that road. There are a couple of buildings shown together on a driveway off of the "Shankhill" road just north of the side-road going southwestward into Derrykeel, but there are also scattered buildings along the road close to the Derrywee River and 2 or 3 building on a long driveway to the NW (and close to the Derrywee East border - maybe inside it). I'm quite sure I've been on that road (which continues south through Flagmount in Co. Clare), but it may have been back several years when I wasn't keeping the records which I do now. I would guess that the "two houses" referred to are one of those north of the Derrykeel road (the other building there is probably a garage or other outbuilding) and one of those down near the river - perhaps the black symbol just above the "99" on the map. Not that it really matters, but the reference to "Shankhill Road" has set me off again. I can't find any townland, village or hill anywhere along or near this road - in Galway or Clare - with a name like Shankhill. There are some Shankill townlands in north Galway, but nowhere near Gort. And none in Co. Clare. Sounds like a confusion with Belfast, to me. If anyone knows about this Shankhill, I'd like to know about it so that I can add it to my maps (as I've now done with Kean's Pound <gr>). Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts