This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/rw/WWC.2ACI/190.343.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: They were all born in Ballyvalden Kilkenny a few miles from Kilkenny city and my greatgrandmother, maiden name also Eliza Meany, married to Thomas Meany, came from Old Leighlin Bridge Carlow which is just across the county border a few miles from Ballyvalden. Ballyvalden is near the town of Gowran. The other siblings were Mary, my grandmother, John, Jim, Margaret, Ellen as well as Michael, Thomas, Dennis.