Mizzou at mizzou@mcmsys.com writes: << I am wondering if their is a town called Boston (not mass.) in Ireland (was queens co. in 1837) It must be near aghaboe parish >> Gee, and I thought this one was going to be a snap (after a series of difficult-to-explain e-mails earlier..........Happy St. Patrick's Day). But it's not, so bear with me. I went to the townland listings, found a Boston townland in Offerlane civil parish (not my favorite parish - too big, too many townlands to search). But I found it in a couple of minutes, less than 3 miles NE of Aghaboe town. Then I noticed it was only 33 acres and on the map (Discovery map 60), the word "Boston" looks isolated, way out in the middle of nowhere. So.....I went to the Townland Index maps and, sure enough, there's this little irregular triangular shape of Boston townland, no roads or trails within a couple of hundred yards. Almost as if it had been someone's field centuries ago, and they wanted it kept separate from the three much-larger surrounding townlands. It just didn't look right to me, as a place which would have ever had a house on it. So, I browsed around on the TI map, and quickly came across another townland, called "Boston or Coolballyogan", along the railroad line a bit more north of the other Boston - about 2 more miles to the NNE. This second one is listed in the Townland Listings (also, probably seanruad.com) under Coolballyogan, and is a bit larger, at 144 acres (we're up on map 54, now). The most interesting thing about this townland, however, is that it is the only townland in a small, isolated section of Abbeyleix civil parish, and is completely surrounded by Clonenagh and Clonagheen civil parish. This particular "Boston" townland does show at least a couple of houses, whereas the first townland was desolate. I don't know what to tell you. It could be the Boston which is 3 miles NE of Aghaboe, or it could be the Boston which is 4 or 5 miles NE of Aghaboe. Your choice. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts