Sharon at jheyob@erols.com writes: << she was born in Killimore, Upper Woods, County Queens. I cannot find any Killimore in Laois but I do find a townland called Killinure in Upper Woods. >> Sharon, I think I'm going to regret getting into this one, as I seem to encounter new inconsistencies at each turn. I started by going to the Townland listings and, sure enough, Killinure in Offerlane CP and Upper Woods barony seemed to be a likely alternative (remember, a typed entry could still have been from a hand-written document. An "n" can look like an "m", and a partially-closed "u" could be mistaken for an "o".). So, I went to the Discovery map 54, and there is Killinure townland - about 3 miles NW of Mountrath. So far so good. Then I went to the RC Parish maps (gleaned from the local.ie website). They are not very detailed and I've never felt comfortable using them. In this case, I really question the Laois RC map. I would assume (of course, this is Ireland) that Camross RC parish would include the town of Camross. Looking at the RC map, it doesn't seem so. Therefore, it appears that Killinure could be located in either Camross of Castletown RC parishes - perhaps also Ballyfin and Mountrath as outside chances. The Castletown parish on the map has a parenthetical "(See Mountrath)" underneath the parish name. I don't know what that means. Just when I thought that I was in the midst of total uncertainty, I decided to go to the Townland Index map of the area..........because I espied a Killanure on my Discovery map, another mile to the NW of the Killinure townland. I knew this Killanure was not in the Townland listings. And, sadly, it's not shown on the Townland Index map, either. Of course, neither is the adjacent "Bull Bog", which is also shown on the Discovery map. However, the TI map does show an "RC Chapel" on the now-named R 440 road, right next to the Killanure lettering on the Disc. map. And, sure enough, the Disc. map has the same church shown, but it is nearly obliterated by all of the other map features which seem to converge at this tiny spot. It is possible that this church may be known as Killanure Church (even though there is no Killanure townland). If so, I still don't know which RC parish it would be in. I'm afraid I haven't helped you much, only muddied the water. "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts