Yesterday I sent the link to the Killarney Poor Law Union meeting minutes. If you opened the link, you may have noted that the papers are located on a Quinnipiac University web page. I don't know much about it but it is located in Connecticut. And it has a wonderful Irish collection, including their An Gorta Mor (The Great Hunger) pages. http://www.thegreathunger.org/ Click on "Collection" and you will see where the Killarney papers are located. But the first item on the collection page, if you are really, really, really serious about Irish research are the British Parliamentary Papers. The English Parliament (Commons/Lords) would commission research studies regularly about subjects that they were concerned about and those Parliamentary Papers contain tremendous amounts of information (in this case on Ireland) in the 19th century. Much of it of course has nothing to do with genealogy. But if you know where your ancestors lived, there will be information on their areas: social services, education, road buildinig, insurrections, infrastructure, etc. Going through it would be tedious, but you could find wonderful information. I don't know if the "Second Report of the Commissioners of Irish Education Inquiry ("Data for the Year 1824" is there. I don't have time to look today. The Irish Genealogical Society International purchased the microfilm for it some years ago and I did some research in it. That report contains a survey of every, and I do mean every, school in Ireland in the early 1820s, with location, physical condition of school (hovel, mud hut, brick, etc.), teacher (one of my Reidys taught near Meenleitrim), costs, religion, texts, charities that supported them, etc. The Parliament was considering setting up the National School system for Ireland (they had done it a few years earlier and the Act of Union had only been passed in 1800) and they wanted to know what the education conditions were like. They commissioned the Catholic and CofI priests to collect the data (and compared them in case one or the other exaggerated the size of their schools). This is a wonderful reference. The condition of the school and its location would tell you about the condition of the neighborhood. And maybe like me you might find a possible relative as a teacher. But it takes work to go through. All of you who are at "brick walls" (like me) should consider going through some of these Parliamentary Papers to see what's there. And please report back to the list. The An Gorta More collection also includes books, videos and photos. Good Luck. Ray Weather: same as yesterday: lovely