Jill at [email protected] writes: << In the early 1800, would Clane have been a village or a small town? I know it is classed as a City now. >> Jill, Clane was classified as a town in the Townlands Listings of the mid-1800's, so it was probably in the same category a few decades earlier when the Irish population was even greater. As for Clane being a City....... only in the residents' dreams <gr>. Clane doesn't even make it onto the list of towns and cities in Ireland (2002) with populations over 3000. There are only 5 or 6 cities in the Republic (depending on how you feel about Kilkenny and their charter). Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts