Val at [email protected] writes: << Please can some one help me by letting me know just where Ballyfasoon is or was located. >> Val, I think you are looking for Ballyfarsoon, a smallish townland in Monasterevin civil parish, just one mile SE of the town of Monasterevin. It's a long, skinny townland, stretching for more than a mile along the eastern side of the R 417 road between Monasterevin and Athy. Incidentally, the seanruad website has the townland incorrectly listed as Ballyfarson. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts