Dear Lorraine and Lynne, thank you for your kind replies re Sheehan, Spillane, and Lawlor families in and around the parish of Aghadoe. I do know where the Spillane family came from - and a cousin still farms the same land, but am looking for connections for Sheehan - my great grandmother, Margaret Sheehan, and somebody named John Lawlor ( Irish Lalor ) who was listed as ' uncle' to the family in London. Margaret's son, my grandfather, always used to talk of Aghadoe, which is not where his father was from - although that was only a few miles away - and my grandfather used to say " I want to be buried in Aghadoe " ( he wasn't, poor man, he was buried in London with his wife and son ), and I think that Aghadoe was where Margaret Sheehan - and possibly / probably John Lawler - were from. My grandfather was extremely close to his mother. There were Sheehans and Lawlers listed there in Griffiths. I think that the Catholic church at Fossa may hold records, does anybody know if they still have them? Or would they all be held in Killarney? I do not know of any in these two families that went to America. Some of the Spillanes went, and also to Australia Mary