Hello Brendan, Thanks for the information about the miners. I'll check the IRL-KERRY archives to see if I can find the name and author of the book you are describing, it sounds like a very interesting resource. I've long suspected possible links to the Allihies area because of the mining connection, and along with the ancestry connections (who's ancestors come from the Beara Peninsula) I'm finding through DNA, I ended up purchasing all three volumes of Riobard O'Dwyer's "Annals of Beara". The books have yielded interesting clues. With the information I'm receiving from all the replies to my posts, I'm slowly connecting the dots to possible answers. Thanks again, -Heather