Cathy, Charlie, et al: In Sept. 2001, I visited the townland of Glenderry out on Kerry Head, specifically to visit the Kilvicada Church of the Corridon family (I was interested in the archaeology, not the genealogy). Here are a couple of extracts from the Ordnance Survey Letters of County Kerry from 1841, regarding this site: === Situated in the Townland of Glenderry in this Parish are the remains of an old church called Cill Mhic A Deaghaidh which signifies the Church of the Son of Deaghaidh [snipped the description of the ruins of the church]. It is said that this Church was built by Saint Macadeaghaidh, whose Holy Well is situated on the shore to the East of the Church. In Smith's History of Kerry p. 211 [orig. from 1756, 1979 Mercier Press reprint is p. 110], this is described as "a small Chapel dedicated to an Irish Saint, called Mac Ida where a rood, or image (a rude image, Q.?) of the Saint is kept, which is held in great veneration by an old Irish family named Corridon, who settled here some centuries ago, from the county of Clare and brought their tutelary Saint with them. I have nowhere else met with any of that name in this county." The only remains of the church are 4- to 6-foot-high walls, with the interior dirt-filled to the top......a private burial ground. The church ruins are certainly old, although perhaps not so ancient as the nearby fine church ruin at Glendahalin East. There is a bilingual plaque on this church which says (in English) "Ruins of a pre-Norman church dedicated to St. Erc, son of Deaghadh, a bishop who lived at Lerig and was associated with St. Brendan. Bishop Erc died A.D. 512 and was buried on Dunmore Head, opposite the Blaskets. Privilege of burial here is reserved exclusively to local Corridon families." I can't account for the difference between the St. Erc and Mac Ida names [gr]. Pete .................................................... Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML>