Have been reading a lovely book " Beara Woman Talking " collected by Tadhg O Murchu, edited by Martin Verling, ( Mercier Press, ISBN 1-85635-417-2 ) and in it it gives the name MINIHANE as la local ( SW Cork ) form of the name O DRISCOLL.............. Are there any sources on line that can be used to find out other variants of surnames? You could be spending a long time trying to look up one, only to find that you should have been researching a different name altogether! Don't you just LOVE the way that Irish genealogy out-twists the most fiendish puzzles known...... Just when you think that you " know " something, the ground opens up - and it's summat else entirely!! Slan Mary