Patrick You will have just missed the Races this year. There are many McCarthys in and around the town but I do not know of any particular ones. McCauliff is not a name I recall but there are McAuliffes and I think you will find at least one shop there with the name (Charles Street I think!) The Cemetery is easy to find. If you walk up Church Street from The Square past all the shops, the road bends slightly to the right. You will then pass the Boys National School, then St Michaels Secondary School. A few yards further on is the Cemetery where most if not all your BARRETTs at least, should be buried. ( a slow 5 minute walk from the Square). If you get as far as the Stand in the Sportsfield, you have just passed it!! On the way back call in to John R's for some bread/cakes/ pies or other delicatessen delights or pop into the "Grape and Grain" next door for liquid refreshment. You will even find a Colbert Street very close to John R's. The parallel street, William Street is the home of John B Keane's pub which his son still runs....worth an evening vist for the craic or even a short play etc. The Square itself is home to St Mary's Catholic Church and in the Centre is St John's ( a redundant C of I) which is now a theatre. In the corner of the Square is the Listowel Arms Hotel which Lord Kitchener ( of Khartoum fame) knew as a boy and where Charles Parnell made Speeches. The Seannachi centre, next to the restored remains of the Castle, is worth a visit too as Listowel is rightly the literary capital of Ireland. A short walk or drive along Market Street and just up the Ballybunion Road is the Famine Graveyard. The Lartigue Railway is well signposted in the town (the world's first monorail train which ran from Listowel to Ballybunion and which has a short piece of track restored and preserved) There are many BARRETTs still in the area and one, Ger, a former Garage owner, even owns the Golf Course nowadays... a splendid 9 holer. Just out of interest, there were BARRETTs in Greenville just out of town along Market Street some years ago and my grandmother, Catherine CLOHERTY, who lived at Gurtcreen just beyond Greenville, was born in 1886 and her Godfather was a Patrick BARRETT and her Godmother a Nora MAHONY. As Catherine was the fifth child, I assume that the godparents were friends or neighbours. Do you think there might be any connection?? Catherine's mother was a Bridget CARMODY and she was related to MULVIHILL/ LINNANE/O'CONNOR/SCANLON families from the Listowel area. Have a good trip Monica